Posted by mattdds on October 18, 2003, at 17:24:04
Hey Lar (if you get this),
Physicians routinely spout off advice to eat healthy, but I am at a loss as to what this actually means. I would not bet on the food pyramid at this point.
I really want to start eating "healthy", but I have serious doubt that anyone really *knows* what that means.
I had suspected all along that lower carb diets might be healthier. Perhaps not to the extreme of <20 g of carbs daily that Atkins (RIP) advocated, but I had a sneaking suspicion that eliminating fat and "carb-loading" was making a lot of people fatter and sicker. Now this is being substantiated by quite a bit of good science.
Are there any reliable guidelines to "healthy eating"? Any authors you might recommend? I think I remember you were "Zone-ish" in your diet.
However, in the past, when trying these types of diets, I experienced *severe* constipation, and even developed hemorrhoids (sorry, but true)!
Any general advice you have on eating? I'm sorry the question is so vague, but to me, there are just too many "experts" that are saying too many different things.
Also, what do you think about CRON, or calorie restriction with optimal nutrition (advocated by the pathologist Roy Walford at UCLA)? Does it all just boil down to calories in vs. calories out in the end?
Thanks in advance Lar,
Matt
P.S. From a dental standpoint, low-carbing would be *excellent*, in terms of caries prevention. The principal bacteria involved in cariogenesis are S. mutans (mainly) and Lactobacillus (less), and these can only inflict their damage with carbohydrates as substrates. I bet pure carnivores would experience a near zero caries rate.
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