A customer at work mentioned how she went on a fat diet and lost 13 pounds so far. Fat as in meats, butter, etc but low carbs. Also note that the Inuit and other peoples who lived off pretty much whale blubber had no heart disease, obesity, or cancer until they gave up raw food for the processed food the explorers revealed to them.
I tend to eat LCHF (Low Carb High Fat). About 70% of my calories come from fat, the rest is protein, with carbs as just trivial amounts, I try to stay under 20g a day, some days are under 10g.
My own take on nutrition is that there is no one size fits all diet for humans, and much of the apparent contradictions from dietary studies is due to that. From an evolution / survival of the species point of view, you different people to have different dietary requirements. Everyone eating exactly the same thing is how a species goes extinct. There may well be some geographical variations as well.
So you need to find what works for you. Note this means find what
works for you, not what you pretend works for you because you like to eat it. If you're eating the typical American high carb moderate fat diet (pizza and chips and fries and ice cream and pasta and so on), and have Type 2 Diabetes or other medical conditions, your diet is not working for you. And of course your doctor and nutritionist are probably telling you to eat less fat, lots more "good carbs" (except there's no such thing as lots more good carbs for
you) and increasing your doses of the cocktail of medications you're taking. And you're going to get sicker and die. Every time a foreign culture switches to the high carb moderate fat junk food Western diet, they start getting sick. Every single time. Without exception.
I am sure there is a subset of the population that does OK on, or at least tolerates, a low fat, low protein, high carb plant based diet. But not me, I know that from experience. And most likely not most of the population. We know that from the experiment we did starting in the 70s, switching people over to that diet. Incidences of Type 2 Diabetes, heart disease, etc all shot up. Dramatically. We've got the data, it doesn't work for the general population. It's a disaster.
I suspect at some point we'll have medical tests (DNA or otherwise) that will tell you what your optimal diet is. Until then, you need to experiment to find out. And unless you have one of the rare open minded doctors/nutritionists, ignore most of what they tell you, which is just a regurgitation of the party line diet, the infamous food pyramid product of your government and the best lobbyists the grain industry can buy.
And of course forget the raw food crazies. Humans have been cooking with fire for hundreds of thousands of years, possibly millions. Which means before we even were humans. Our digestive system has evolved to require many foods to be cooked, so we can extract the nutrients from them. There's a reason raw food proponents are super thin. They're malnourished.
Now time to get off my soap box, and start the grill
Topic: Eat The Butter (Read 6096 times)
