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eating sugar is not a requirement for survival. You can eat zero carbs and survive just fine. Not so for fats/proteins.

• mrangle 3y ago
  As someone who has a couple of decades of zero sugar fasting, strict paleo, and ultra low calorie dieting under his belt, this isn't true. There's nothing just fine about what happens when muscle glycogen depletes after several days of true zero carb dieting. Even strictly cutting out starch becomes problematic after some time, though my experience is also that humans will get unique health benefits from doing that for stretches. Which avoids the trouble of all-in zero carb.
  • Aerbil313 3y ago
    The guy in the video doesn't advocate for zero carb, just to clarify. Traditional diets in native populations worldwide are all varied and very different, some don't eat carbs and yet they are healthy. Probably something to do with their lifestyle also.