What’s the root of all dietary evil? Two beliefs, according to a new article from dr Robert Lustig: A calorie is a calorie, and You are what you eat:
I tend to agree with most of what he says, but I’m skeptical to the idea that it’s always a bad thing to mix carbs and fat in a meal. It may be true that food in nature is either rich in fat of carbs. But our ancestors have probably eaten more than one kind of food at the same meal for a long time.
As long as you stay away from processed and high-sugar carbs I don’t think it’s a problem for healthy people to mix some unrefined carbs and fat – potatoes and meat for example. Unless of course you’re trying to lose weight or improve your diabetes etc., in which case the potatoes are out.






































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My family thought I was nuts too - but, now that I have not only survived 4 years of this insanity, but thrived, they're coming around. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a good example is worth a million. Right?
Here's my theory on how to educate the masses (it's the pebble in the pond, or butterfly, effect) First, don't tell anyone what you're doing when you first start out, especially your mom (you know what I'm talking about), because you'll get nothing but push-back, and someone will tell your mom and then she'll tell your doctor - and that won't end well.
Then carry a before picture of yourself, with a list of your previous ailments and meds on the back, along with a general outline of your prior diet. Show it to the skeptic, tell them what you eat now, how little exercise you do, what ailments you still have (if any) and then, take off your shirt.
They can either believe what the government, the medical industry or conventional wisdom tells them; or they can believe their lying eyes.