I eat primarily a high protein diet and I feel physically wonderful. I've been at it about a year and the mood swings are gone, the early afternoon exhaustion is gone, my food cravings are gone, my gastroensophogeal (sp?) reflex is gone. I eat fruit and vegetables at the one meal a day when I eat carbs.
The one thing that convinced me to try this type of diet is that I read that before 1920, heart disease was extremely rare because people didn't consume carbohydrates like they do now. It may not be for everyone but it's worked like a charm for me. I wish I had known about this a few years earlier.
Look at ANY culture that eats low fat, high carb diets with little fat and you know what? They are all thin.
Carbohydrates are an energy source. If you eat to many carbs, you will get fat. I dont know what the energy level of you all is so I can not tell you what to eat. Look at long distance runners that carbo-load... are THEY fat?
If you are a couch potato and stuff yourself with pasta all day, guess what? You will get fat!!! Gee, that thought process is really difficult, eh?
Fat itself is not bad for you. It is one of the three macro-nutrients. Americans eat to much fat. SO what did they do after they stopped eating to much fat? They ate to many carbs! Pathetic, how about not eating so damn much? :D
The scientific and empirical evidence is far to great to take this article seriously. Try this on for size. If you exercise hard and eat only 1000 calories a day, you WILL lose weight. It does not matter where those calories come from.
If you train HARD and restrict your carb intake, you will feel like crap. Trust me, I know. I have not gotten enough carbs and felt drained... literally. Fat, Carbs, and protein are the three macro-nutrients and they have been scientifically analyzed and the mystery is gone people.
When people disagree with me they usually put it something like this...
"I cut out ALL fat(Not a good idea.) from my diet and stuffed myself silly on thousands of calories of carbs and GAINED WEIGHT!!! See, its the Carbs!!!!"
Someone mentioned the "Pig Diet". I wonder if that person is aware of the physiological term "Ketosis". It is not good and that is the condition your body is in when you deplet yourself of carbs. When Zoologists find animals like this in the wild, they consider them SICK.
I am not telling people to avoid fat or protein, they are INTEGRAL, but so to are carbs. Whenever I post something like this, everyone says "Proteins great!", or "Fat is neccesary!" No kidding, read the post. Can you dig it?