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except a low carb diet is completely possible without the use of animal products, so that point doesn't really hold water.
by Passthepeas 8y ago
except a low carb diet is completely possible without the use of animal products, so that point doesn't really hold water.
- darawk 8y agoA low fat diet is completely possible without the use of sugar. What's your point?
- timbit42 8y agoIt would taste like crap and no one would eat it.
- darawk 8y agoYou could use artificial sweeteners. Also, there's plenty of lean meats or plant-based diets that are low in fat and sugar while remaining reasonably palatable.
- grondilu 8y agoWhere is the energy supposed to come from if there is neither fat nor sugar?
- proteinman 8y agoProtein. And there are carbonhydrates besider sugar...
- smartbit 8y agoTry a proper Vegan meal and you’ll be astonished how good a low fat meal would taste without sugar. The app Happy Cow can help you find a nearby Vegan restaurant.
- koboll 8y agoReally? I'm trying it now and finding it tremendously challenging to eat adequate calories without either grains or lots and lots of meat. Vegetables are so calorie-poor and expensive that they're untenable, so you better love beans and lentils, because that's the vast majority of what you'll be consuming.
- timbit42 8y agoBeans and lentils aren't low carb.
- masonic 8y agoThey're low carb by plant standards.
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- crazygringo 8y agoThe answer is fat -- the majority of your calories necessarily come from either carbs or fats (protein is pretty constant for most people). So if you cut way down on carbs, gotta go up on the fats, that's just how it works: I eat lots of cheese, full-fat strained ("greek") yogurt, tons of eggs, nuts and peanut butter, tons of olive oil on my salad and vegetables, lots of butter in my scrambled eggs, obviously avocados if you can afford them. Since fat makes things delicious, it's really pretty easy. If you're non-dairy or vegan then you don't get as much variety, of course.
- paavoova 8y ago> vegan then you don't get as much variety I simply fail to see how it's possible to eat vegan low-carb. Everything vegan, be it legumes, vegetables, or fruits, have carbs. Legumes are 2/3 carbs, so they're out of the question. Even nuts, despite their high fat/moderate protein content, have an appreciable amount of carbs. Even peanuts, a low-carb legume, have 21 grams of carbs/100g. Which just leaves processed plant proteins and fats. On top of that, protein gets converted into glucose via gluconeogenesis, so despite eating low-carb your body will be breaking down excess protein into sugar. So to try vegan low-carb is really an impossible fad diet.