If we all have an individual fat threshold, then maybe we all have an individual response to the major macros, too.
Every time I delve into the Rice Diet, I am fascinated. There's three macro nutrients, and three ways for people to respond to this extremely high carb, low fat diet. We all know what happens with high carb, high fat, of course
Diabetes.
One third of people on high carb, low fat
improved their diabetes. It proved difficult for people to stick with -- as I recall, the doctor in charge said "he had to whip them" which I hope was illustrative language -- but it did work.
If we were serious about medical diets, we would at least study it more. But there's no money for actual science that isn't tainted, as we know from grants given because they fit the lipid hypothesis, so competing theories were starved out of contention. Corporations had a lot of money invested in the one they preferred.
Much of what we do know about nutrition came from successful medical diets. Low carb, ike Banting, still works. And it keeps coming back. Not that it works for everybody. But I think it forms a path to
Because, macro-wise, low carb of any kind is easier to stick to than the Rice Diet. So trying that is going to help more people. The 80/90s were a sea of low fat products, and that made the diabetics of today, didn't it?