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Doug Freyburger wrote:

Wildbilly wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:
Wildbilly wrote:

I'm not well enough read, yet, to know where the lower level of carb
consumption is (perhaps no carbs), but the less you eat, the greater
your chances of extending your life.

Keep reading and you'll find that there are limits to lower being
better. Being still over 100 you're still in the range that lower is
better. By the time you get to around 50 grams per day going lower is
not any better. Higher drop out rates and all sorts of other issues.

What do these arguments have to do with nutrition, Doug? What happens at
below 50 g/day?

Study after study has been done about the 20 gram per day level. Some
of the studies are to show that low carbing is better, some to show it's
worse than other plans. The studies show both sides of that coin. Good
loss, bad mood (Susan likes to write about cortisol). Thyriod T3 drops
after two weeks of very low calorie dieting but that also happens with
low carb dieting under specific conditions. Basically as the levels get
low enough to be called extreme problems start coming up that need
control that's more careful and detailed than almost any dieter is
willing to do or knows to do.

To get to no carbs at all it takes an extremist approach that requires
great care to get enough vitamins. The traditional cutlrues that eat
like that consider seal eyeballs a delicacy for example. I'll pass. ;^)
I'll have half of my plate be low carb veggies, thanks.

Get to the extreme of eating zero grams of carb and the control needs to
include eating raw seal meat and seal eyeballs. Who would know that if
they weren't raised among the Inuit?

As mentioned in Taube's book, "Good Calorie, Bad Calories"
http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson2.htm
Supplemental vitamins not needed.

Apparently, the meat doesn't need to be raw, if you aren't eating carbs,
at least according to Stefansson, or Taubes. This unnerved some of my
biologist friends too, so I guess it needs to be nailed down, one way or
the other.

At least you won't get "The Western Disease" (a.k.a. Metabolic Syndrome)
from an Inuit diet.

But you don't get Metabloic Syndrome from eating lots of veggies to put
you in the 50-100 gram per day range either.
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