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> Around 50% of food energy from carbohydrate That's NOT healthy at all.

• ska 14y ago
  > That's NOT healthy at all This statement assumes facts not in evidence. There is a lot of argument about what the best distributions are, without any real resolution at this point. The author reasonable chose to target a standard without claiming it was the only way to go.
  • Shorel 14y ago
    No, the author simply repeated old stuff. If all those 'reasonable' diets worked, the current obesity epidemic would not be in its worst point, as it is. Some evidence about sugar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRAwgdvhWHw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRAwgdvhWHw http://martin.ankerl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/trouble_with_fructose_slides.pdf http://martin.ankerl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/trouble_...
    • ska 14y ago
      This is what "no real resolution yet" means: every few years we get a pet theory or two. The reason this so easily devolves into a `religious` argument scenario is because the basic science is still too weak. The author did the right thing to stay well shut of all that in this article.
    • lmaz3 14y ago
      I don't think that the videos you posted support your claims, at least not the first one. In the suggested diet, almost 2/3 of the carbohydrates don't come from sugar. From the foods listed, most of these carbohydrates should come from the oats and the rice. In these foods, the carbohydrates come almost exclusively from starch, which the body splits into glucose. And glucose is the ideal power source for your body, as Lustig shows at 44:52 in the first of the youtube videos you linked. Now, about the suggars, at 1:13:55 in the same video, he states that we "should eat our carbohydrates with fibers, and thats why fruits are ok". The diet in the article contains plenty of fibres, so that should be ok.