>>This anti-carb lunacy is causing many people to make very bad dietary choices and it has been going on long enough in the demographic we are discussing to cause all sorts of intestinal problems from irritable bowel syndrome to cancer.
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This is clearly FALSE.
Irritable bowel typically disappears with a low carb diet. It did for me.
Both my husband and my blood work was awful before going low carb. They were ready to put him on a statin. He said, “Give me 3 months.”
It was more like 6 months later we had new blood work.
Both of our blood panels were PERFECT. The doc said “whatever you are doing, keep doing it”.
Blood sugars normalized, excess weight dropped, energy ret’d, arthritis pain disappeared.
Years later we did the old slide back to diet habits formed in our youth. Voila, all the above-listed symptoms ret’d.
It may not work for you, but it sure as hell worked for us, and EVERYONE in our circle of family and friends who accurately adhered to it.
I am glad that you have found a diet that works for you... I assume with the help of a medical professional. Obviously, it is possible to make good dietary choices even when limiting your intake of foods that are very beneficial to other people. And there are many people who have a problem with dietary roughage with conditions such as diverticulitis. There are also those who have difficulty with gluten. However vegetables, fruits, and whole grains have very beneficial effects for the majority of people, especially when combined with healthy sources of protein.
I was borderline diabetic type II 5 years back. Then I stumbled onto 16 hour fast everyday. OK so I cheat a bit on weekends. But my sugar is normal, A1C is normal and even my blood pressure is good. I eat all food groups, with lots of carbs, and eat the same amount as I did before, except all calorie intake is compressed in 8 hours, from 10 am to 6 pm.
What people to realize is that what is “low carb” is actually “normal carb”, and the diet they are used to is “high carb”.
The wife and I eat low carb, but there are still more than enough carbs in our diet, plenty of carbs.
The body cannot store protein or minerals, it stores carbs as fat. Eat plenty of proteins and minerals and those carbs are combined as a rather healthy diet. If you need more carbs, then eat them, but we get plenty of carbs because few will eat just rocks and twigs.