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if carbs are not essential, then why eat them at all ?
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Because while carbs in and of themselves are not essential (and you can not eat them at all and remain healthy and fit....take the Inuits and Masai for example, who live primarily on protein and fat), the fiber, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals that they contain can be helpful in promoting optimal health. You can get plenty of all those things without eating high glycemic carbs or a lot of them and still keep insulin response and circulating insulin levels low enough to prevent fat storage as well as a host of inflammatory responses associated with high levels of circulating insulin.
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carbohydrates are essential for optimum health.
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And your proof of that would be? Wait...you don't have any other than subjective opinion and third hand information. As Rosebud pointed out, our bodies will burn alcohol in preference to any other energy source available, but you won't hear anyone stating that we should be getting all our energy from Jack Daniels. Our bodies have become a primarily glucose burning system because we have made them that way through out diets. Before the advent of agriculture, this was not the case and most humans were using primarily ketones for energy.
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never did i say that you were missing any vitamins, etc.
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So your sole argument with a low carb lifestyle is that it is lacking in carbs which for some reason that you cannot prove you feel are necessary for optimal health? Gymeejet...you don't even know how many carbs those who are on maintainace are getting while you're maintaining that they are not getting enough of them!
LOL...you still haven't posted what you think an average days menu looks like on maintainance low carb.
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had to take ridicule from the WHOLE MEDICAL COMMUNITY, who branded him a nut who was advising people to do something dangerous to their bodies. this is why i admire him. he stood his ground WHEN ALL THE STUDIES TOLD HIM HE WAS WRONG.
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Wow...sounds just like Dr. Atkins and to a lesser degree the rest of the doctors who have been promoting a low carb lifestyle as healthier and better for our bodies than the currently recommended diet. And yet, you're willing to trash all of their studies and experience with their patients based on....????
As for doctors who are healthy, Dr. Bernstein (Bernstein's Diabetes Solution), who is a type 1 diabetic in his 60's, is an active runner and uses weight resistance training, all on 30 grams of carb per day, which you keep maintaining is impossible to do without a lot of carbs.
Exercise? Let me ask you...how much exercise at the intensity level you are recommending is someone who is 100 pounds or more overweight (or even 50 pounds overweight) capable of? They need to lose weight first? Now how would you recommend that they do that?