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Originally Posted by Jacymac
I hope I am not stepping into something here in which I am not welcome, but amusing as it is to read all this, do you actually have a response to the information that Regina presented? I am genuinely curious as I follow "normal" Atkins and am currently stalled and considering dropping my carbs as close to zero as possible to try to break it. I realise that doing this for a short time is of no danger and not what is being discussed here, but it has got me thinking and I would like to know the pros and cons longer term. I suspect I will land on the side of Atkins as written and climbing the carb ladder, especially with the information provided by Regina. But I would be interested to know your response (other than the one quoted above!)
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Regina gets no love from me anymore.
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Carbohydrates drive insulin drives fat accumulation: Cut the carbohydrates.
Exercise makes us hungry so we eat more so fat loss stalls: Stay in bed.
A priori, the brain can't function properly when it's malnourished: Eat fat.
Cancer eats glucose: Don't feed it.
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These four statements represent quite a bit of reading and subsequent analysis over at least a year on my part. It's obvious that I hold carbohydrate in no high regard. The first is what I got from Taubes GCBC. I got more but that's the main part. The second I got from personal experience. I tested a hypothesis I got from an article by Taubes in the New York Mag. The third I got by deduction of several articles about brain function disorders (i.e. epilepsy, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Autism, dementia, etc). All of these improved by cutting out carbohydrate and eating a very high fat diet (said ketogenic, basically, only fat meat). The last one I got from the Warburg hypothesis. Never mind that his hypothesis is flawed, I only looked at what cancerous cells feed on.
Because of the way I think and all that I've read, I have no choice but to consider carbohydrate poisonous to humans. See how many ways we can poison ourselves with it. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease, the various brain disorders, the various eating disorders, dental caries, skeletal deformation, fetal defects of all kinds and miscarriage due to this, birth defects in the event of a viable fetus anyway, cancer, all the diseases of civilization. The list is long.
To put my point across, I ask you, do you have crooked teeth and if not did you wear braces to straighten them out? Did you have your tonsils removed? Did you have your appendix removed? Did you grow fat? Did you develop dental caries? I don't need to know the answers, I only asked to make you think about that.
If you suffered any of the diseases of civilization, how then can you consider carbohydrate as food when it's carbohydrate that caused these diseases? Again I don't need the answer, I only want to make you think about it. Food is not supposed to poison us. It's not supposed to make us fat, sick, stupid or weak. Food is supposed to nourish us, to make us lean, muscular, strong, smart and healthy.
Either you believe carbohydrate is food or you believe carbohydrate is poisonous. We can't have it both ways. These two statements can't ever agree:
1. Carbohydrate is food.
2. Carbohydrate is responsible for our disease.
The next question becomes, what is food then? The answer is obvious once we cut out all carbohydrate. Food is animal flesh. More specifically, fat animal flesh. Saying it's healthy in the short term but doubtful in the long term is an argument frequently used against Atkins. Why then would a proponent of Atkins use this same argument against zero carb? All the arguments in favor of low carb are used in favor of zero carb. (Indeed, Atkins has something very close to zero carb called the fat fast.) The only difference is how we see carbohydrate. Atkins says it's food. Zero carb says no.
By my own reckoning, I'm in perfect health. I've been eating ZC for about 6 months or so. I see no unhealthful effect whatsoever. On the contrary, I'm getting leaner although not getting lighter anymore. Even if I don't do much exercise. There's more but I won't go into detail here. Cutting out carbs returned me to good health.