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My favorite piece of dietary advice: stop stressing over what you shouldn't be eating and focus instead on what you should be eating. We can argue about fat, su
by ideonexus 10y ago
My favorite piece of dietary advice: stop stressing over what you shouldn't be eating and focus instead on what you should be eating. We can argue about fat, sugar, and carbohydrates and which is worse till we're blue in the face, but the simple truth is that if you're getting most of your calories from fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, then you needn't waste any mindshare on this debate.
- buu700 10y agomost of your calories from fruits, vegetables, and whole grains Well no, that misses the point. Everyone's diet has some macronutrient ratio, whether that be high-carbohydrate, high-fat, high-protein, or somewhere in between. It's fine to ignore the debate and just do what works for you personally, but that doesn't make a high-carbohydrate diet (which is what you're suggesting) obviously good general advice.
- xiaoma 10y agoCan you name a single Blue Zone that doesn't have a "high-carbohydrate diet"?
- buu700 10y agoDid you mean to reply to me? I hadn't commented at all on the virtues (or lack thereof) of any particular macronutrient ratios, high-carbohydrate or otherwise. My point is that the appropriate response to a debate between any given X and Y isn't "no need to consider the facts because the answer is obviously X".