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Yup - keto diet just works. HFMPLC is what every American should do. Of course, that would eliminate 95% of processed food.
I’m not sure a “High” anything diet is healthy. I suspect balance is probably the key to a healthy diet.
Of course, I don’t have a PhD in food studies or caloric relations or such. I just have advice my mom gave me when I was growing up.
Just eat what you like in moderation and make sure that it is real food, no fake replacements such as artificial sweeteners, high fructose syrup, and margarine. More vegetables than fruit, more fruit than meat, more meat than carbs. Avoid overprocessed foods. Spices are your friend. If you eat too much salt then drink more water. Bang your wife regularly.
Whatever the govt says to do with your diet, do 180 degrees the opposite and you’ll be fine. Because you can be assured their recommendations are crooked and subsidized and supported by biased research, and about 50 years behind the curve.
She used to tell me to eat more meat, fats and green salad vegetables and less processed breads, crackers, pretzels, cookies, cakes, potatoes, corn, and no sugar, if I wanted to keep my weight down and still have energy to be in athletics and be an active teenager.
Processed carbohydrates convert to glucose when eaten and, if not burned up in our daily activities and exercise, then within 24-48 hours, the excess is converted to fat and stored in our butts and stomachs for later use. We get sugar highs and lows, a big contributor to diabetes. We get fat.
If you eat proteins, fats and simple carbs (not processed) and don't eat the processed carbs, your body looks for other energy sources to fuel our bodies, mainly the excess fat stores hanging off our butts and stomachs. You go into ketosis and burn your own fat. We lose weight.
I've eaten this way for decades. I was able to run 10Ks and marathons for 30 years after school with no loss of energy. My cholesterol was 112 on my last physical, very low. No diabetes. At 70 years old, I still walk briskly everyday and do strength training. And am mistaken for being in my mid-50s regularly.
I do eat processed carbs on occasion like the tortillas used for tacos or popcorn at a movie. But I stick to the no-processed-carbs way of eating almost exclusively. I drink lots of water daily.
I attended my 50th high school reunion last year and was complimented more than once on my weight being close to what it was 50 years ago. Most people in the group were way overweight to say the least.
This way of eating is not for everyone, but if you like to eat and not gain weight (and even lose weight) this is one way to maintain it. A couple of times in my life I fell off the wagon because of circumstances at the time and fell back into eating processed carbs. In no time, I started gaining weight. But was aware enough to slam the breaks on the weight increase and shove my body into reverse and went back to the protein, fats and simple carb way of eating and lost it all.
Moral of the story: My mom had it right while the government food pyramid experts have it all wrong. The pyramid should be turned upside down on its point instead of its base. That would go a long way towards reducing obesity and diabetes in this country.
Fat tastes good.
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