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To: allmendream

Are you a doctor or a nutricinist or is this just your opinion? I ask because I’ve survived for over 49 years with a very severe form of diabetes and your info s 100% contrary to what I have lived and been taught.A person’s carb intake really should be only about 20% of their diet.


112 posted on 01/05/2012 10:46:19 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba
I study metabolism (albeit in a different context) for a living, I am a molecular biologist.

A healthy person on a healthy diet should derive the majority of their calories from carbohydrates rather than from proteins and fats. This was and still is a widely accepted standard, despite a small but fanatical group of followers of a fad diet that peaked in popularity around 2002.

Biochemically we are set up to burn carbohydrates as our primary energy source.

119 posted on 01/05/2012 11:11:52 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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