Zero carb is impossible and dangerous

(Keith Frentz) #1

Guess what everyone, apparently you can’t survive without carbs! Sigh, this makes me so sad. I get questioned daily about either why I’m clogging my arteries or not eating for several days. I try to inform, but crap like this is all that people ever take to heart. Sorry if this article has been posted about before.

#2

follow the money :money_mouth:

(John) #3

I would be interested in learning more about these pathways

carbohydrates help us build proteins, process fats, and build bone, cartilage, and nervous system tissue, all of which are as important as they sound.

(Adam Hagen) #4

I read this ridiculous article today myself… very misinformed and lots of falsities…

#5

Funnily enough, as someone who is avidly against ZC, I also agree that is an absolutely ridiculous article. In fact, it’s not an article. It’s just an advertorial for Keri Gans’ book. Someone must have decided part of their target audience was people who’ve been burnt by ZC so they wrote a hysterical absurd piece preaching to the converted to sell more books.

#6

I think their entire argument was about it taking energy, which they equated with carbs.

(Richard Morris) #7

People fall for this kind of reductio ad-absurdum all the time.

You get it with dietitians asserting that your brain can’t adequately fuel on a low carb diet - yet George Cahill established in the 70s that that wasn’t the case.

You get it with this author asserting that there is no such thing as a zero carb diet because meat has trace glycogen - raw freshly killed meat does, anyone eating raw within an hour of slaughter?

You get it with people getting apoplectic on FaceBook about people on a ketogenic diet eating too much fat - if you eat fat to satiety then by definition you don’t eat too much fat.

There has been enough research done into carnivorous diets that it is well established that people can meet their essential nutritional requirements if they eat eggs and/or offal. I would be tempted to refer any nutritionist making such absurd comments to the study of Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s sojourn in Bellevue Hospital in 1928 on a diet of only meat.

Personally I won’t eat liver, that’s why I eat vegetables. But if I ate offal I have no doubt I could thrive on a completely carnivorous diet.

(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #8

Guess I must be a ghost then. Well, I eat the occasional carbs, but I never ever feel I have to.

I do eat offal by choice, occasionally, but I believe I’d survive healthily without it.

#9

Have you read Stefansson’s book “The Fat of The Land”?

(Barbara Greenwood) #10

I hate liver. I love (many) vegetables. Easy trade.

(What The Fast?!) #11

Sounds like a spell from Harry Potter…
“Reductio ad absurdum!!” she cried out, as her unwitting victim turned promptly into a frog…

(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #12

I like this game. :slight_smile:

"They handed him a plate of cakes. Swiftly, Harry pointed his wand and uttered:

“Carnivero!”

And the cakes became steaks, tender, bloody ones, cooked to perfection…"

“The vegan wraiths looked on, their mouths salivating…they could only look, but dare not touch…”

:wink: