Sun, Jan-03-10, 15:49
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Posts: 85
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Plan: Mix of Atkins & Primal
Stats: 207.5/194.5/135
BF:
Progress: 18%
Location: Bay Area, CA
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A bit off topic, but one of the things I made myself promise to on this WOE is that there would be little if NO frankenfoods.
Any diet, be it low fat or low carb can be done with whole foods. I think the problems occur when frankenfoods are brought into the picture. Personally, I can't do low fat for several reasons (satiety and hypoglycemia being the big ones). However, for low carb to really work, I think frankenfoods need to be kept minimal/non-existant.
Why? Because our bodies don't really know what to do with those foods. I think a lot of the energy people who start out LC get is because, for once, their bodies are ONLY getting real foods. It's like suddenly our bodies say "hey, we know what to do with this, and we're not backlogged trying to deal with those weird things--cool!"
I don't think it's coincidence that our bodies process different forms of vitamins/minerals differently. Take iron. Most of the iron in supplements is useless. The best uptake? Heme iron. You know, the stuff in blood. So eating lots of stuff that contains blood (hence red meat, things like blood sausage, liver) is better for iron absorption than is spinach.
Not all sources of food are equal. Grains 'can' be okay to eat, if properly processed (google Traditional Foods for more info). Even then, only during times of famine or the really, really, really poor did grains make up the bulk of the diet. That says something.
Ami
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