Should you have cheat meals on low carb?
April 29 2017 by Amanda Åkesson, BSc
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD
in About membership, Low carb & high fat, Q&A, Sugar/fructose


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Should you have cheat meals on low carb? That’s one of the questions in this Q&A session where Dr. Michael Eades, Karen Thomson, Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt and Emily Maguire answer questions related to low carb and sugar.
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The question is does a cheat meal have health impacts or not? That's what I want to know. Is increasing your carb intake after you're happy with your weight that terrible or not? Japan eats plenty of rice and they've got some of the healthiest, most long-lived people in the world.
Going on keto, losing weight, then eating some more carbs and going between burning carbs and fat seems like it makes evolutionary sense since food is seasonal. Some seasons you go hunting and other seasons there is lots of fruit around.
Since we burn both fat and carbs so well, why the heck wouldn't you want to burn both? Seems like humans are designed to burn both, and just like you shouldn't burn just carbs for an extended period of time, you probably wouldn't burn just fat for an extended period of time either. If burning carbs eventually builds up into insulin resistance, then what does burning just fat eventually build up to?