“Carbs are actually an excellent food for people leading active lives and heavy exertion, as they are readily absorbed and provide nearly instant energy. In most cases though, they are a form of poison to sedentary types.”
I completely agree. As long as you actively burn off what you eat in carbs, you will do fine, assuming you don’t already have a bad situation with fatty liver or insulin/glucose resistance.
That’s the beauty of “intermittent fasting”, and general calorie restriction. It forces the body to burn off glycogen stores in the blood, muscles, and the liver, and will definitely reduce or eliminate fatty liver. That’s probably why everybody’s blood work comes back looking golden. “Good cholesterol” and “bad cholesterol”, lipid levels, all that stuff starts getting back where it needs to be. Also a cool feature of the human body is called Autolysis. Basically the body starts chewing up and digesting old cells, and renewing them. It has long been known that calorie restriction has life extension characteristics in lab animals.
When I was actively losing weight, and really burning off the pounds, sometimes I would get night sweats, and I even spent a lot of time sleeping. I would ask myself “Self, what is that smell!?” Turns out, it was ME, burning off fat. Some people say it has an odor of acetone, but it seemed like burning rubber. I know I can’t live forever, but I’m more concerned with the quality of life at the tail end. I’ve seen so many elderly people confined to wheelchairs, blind, limbs amputated, and obese.