Sadly, the whipping part was supposedly true, and lawsuits and media sensational reporting really tarnished Duke's reputation …but back in the post-war years,! As weird as Dr. Kempner was, his Rice Diet was designed to improve hypertension, and it did. Now plant-based physicians like Dr John Mcdougall and his Starch Solution Diet for diabetes call him a hero.

Rather than continuing the centuries long tug of war between low carb and low fat, can we just agree its both?



https://optimisingnutrition.com/car...rage-hypothesis

Carbs are not an essential nutrient, while fats, are. To be, that adds nuance right off the top. In my own body, cream cheese has a wildly different effect than soy oil. While, regardless of the food carrying the carbs, carbs all breaks down to sugar.

Excess simplification, often urged by a publisher, is part of that when it comes to books, too. The new, multi-factorial, view is the right one.

Now, thanks to science, there's good and bad macros! That's a big deal, too. I'm wrathful where their fake fat gets filed under "fat" and the whacky plant proteins are counted the same as actual meat.

Though if we have to simplify it, "energy toxicity" is a great shortcut, yes.

Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments by Gary Taubes -

"The effect of any diet is to be judged by those who follow it, not by those who break it." —Joslin’s Diabetes Mellitus, eighth edition, 1946

I'm wading into the story of the man who literally "wrote the book," for generations, about how to treat diabetes.