Posted on 03/11/2025 9:59:43 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Steak and shake over-enforced masking and vaccine requirements with employees and customers.
I didn’t forget that.
Didn’t realize Hannity was that short.
“get McDonalds to return to frying french fries in beef tallow all will be well with the world.”
Yes! They were the best!
“I’ve been avoiding carbs since September. I’m not perfect, but it is doable.”
I’ve done well on no- low-carb. Sometimes I cheat - - maybe once a week. Like today I had pizza for lunch, and banana for breakfast. Normally I’d eat neither of those things.
All carbs are not created equal. Those that break down to glucose the easiest turn to body fat the fastest. Sucrose gets metabolized to glucose by mouth enzymes. Plant carbs need to be digested to break down to glucose.
“I would compare the burgers and fries to being pretty similar to Freddy’s, if you are familiar with Freddy’s foods.”
Thank you for the opinion.
We do actually have a Freddy’s about two miles from our home. Good burgers and a clean store too.
Some time ago they switched to “seed” oils on the premise that it was healthier. Now we’re heading back to where we started from.
They changed because vegans were bit(hing and moaning that fries in “beef tallow” were not vegan.
“All carbs are not created equal. Those that break down to glucose the easiest turn to body fat the fastest. Sucrose gets metabolized to glucose by mouth enzymes. Plant carbs need to be digested to break down to glucose.”
All digestible carbs like starch, lactose... are rapidly turned into glucose in a matter of minutes. Remember the 8th grade biology experiments where we put raw smashed potatoes in saliva, it’s enough to decompose potatoe from a polysaccharide (starch) into a monosaccharide (glucose). Cooked starch becomes glucose even much faster because it’s has been partly broken down to glucose by heat.
There is the widely disseminated misconception that we can stuff our face with “whole food” carbs because they would be “healthier” than sugar. It’s a scam.
Carbs are addictive, totally unnecessary and toxic in the long run (because they cause insulin spikes).
There are essential amino-acids (proteins) and essential fatty acids (fat) but ZERO essential carb.
-PJ
“But don’t go too low. Chronic keto, for example, is rarely ideal, being too low in MAC/prebiotic/soluble/resistant carbs.”
Correct, which is why I used the phrase “net carb”. It's not a number on the Nutrition Facts panel. It's calculated trivially by subtracting total Fiber from total Carb. This is a long-standing concept attributed to Arthur Agatston (also the formulator of the very revealing coronary calcium score, but perhaps more remembered as the South Beach Diet* guy).
The net carb portion of any food is either going to become measurable blood sugar promptly, or triglycerides a few hours later.
*And that's more than I know about the SBD.
Yes, there is. You'll distort your microbiome without MAC (microbiota-accessible carbohydrate).
This has long-term health consequences, and there's no ancestral case for it.
Sub-seasonal keto is a great tool. Chronic KD needs to be reserved for things like refractory epilepsy.
Keto is pretty trendy these days, but I suspect that most doing it, aren't really, as in net carbs under 20 grams per day.
On a low net carb diet, such as 50g/day, observers of it are likely in ketosis every night during the latter hours of sleep.
Yes, carbs are addictive. Eat something sweet and all you want is more.
But I believe carbs serve as a metabolic "lubricant" or catalyst, needed to a small extent.
Pfffffffffffffffft, Vannity is a clown, how anyone can listen to or watch him is beyond me and how any woman would want to marry him is beyond me ($$$$)?
“Yes, there is. You’ll distort your microbiome without MAC (microbiota-accessible carbohydrate).”
“This has long-term health consequences, and there’s no ancestral case for it.”
And of course there are many ancestral cases for carnivore. 10,000 years ago, Europe was still in the glacial age and down to Northern France, the soil was permafrost. What do you think that our ancestors ate for 100,000 years during that last glacial age? Bingo, meat and only meat, even berries from the so-called paleo diet were not available. And people from those periods were much bigger and taller than neolithic humans who started agriculture and eating grains, this is an undisputable archeological fact.
Likewise, the Inuits thrive by eating only meat (no heart disease, no cancer). It has been largely documented by explorers like Stefansson more than a century ago. If carnivore has long term health (bad) consequences, we should have known them since then just by looking at a whole population: the Inuits. Once again, I am asking you, WHAT are those consequences???
“But I believe carbs serve as a metabolic “lubricant” or catalyst, needed to a small extent. “
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