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I do not believe that is true. I can eat greasy hamburgers minus the bun and feel completely fine. I thought the body would use fat and ketones to convert to
by ithought 12y ago
I do not believe that is true. I can eat greasy hamburgers minus the bun and feel completely fine. I thought the body would use fat and ketones to convert to energy and only convert a very small percentage of protein to glucose.
From the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide:
"Don't be so refined. The bolus of blood sugar that accompanies a meal or snack of highly refined carbohydrates (white bread, white rice, French fries, sugar-laden soda, etc.) increases levels of inflammatory messengers called cytokines. Eating whole-grain bread, brown rice, and other whole grains smooths out the after-meal rise in blood sugar and insulin, and dampens cytokine production."
http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/What-you-eat-can-fuel-or-cool-inflammation-a-key-driver-of-heart-disease-diabetes-and-other-chronic-conditions.shtml http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/What-you-eat-can-f...
- a8da6b0c91d 12y agoThe cytokine release is exactly what I was describing. It only happens when there is damage and infection to heal. You do not see an inflammation response in a healthy person when they eat sugar/starch. The glycemic index stuff is pretty much nonsense. If you don't have type I diabetes your body is perfectly happy to sop up spikes of sugar and it does no harm at all.
- ithought 12y agoThanks. Can you recommend a book? So the claim that on a ketogenic diet your brain only needs 5% of energy from protein (to make glucose) and the rest from fats and ketones is wrong?
- a8da6b0c91d 12y agoI would recommend Ari Whitten's "Forever Fat Loss" as a book on fat loss nutrition. I don't know all the detailed claims ketogenic diet advocates make, all I know is that sustained low carbohydrate diets are damaging and a very bad idea. They do in fact work for fat loss in the short run, which is why so many people are buying into it.