Re: Low-Carb Diets


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When you smoke, you are constantly "irritating" certain body parts -
that can be any part from your lips to your anus. Smokers can get can
of lips, throat, bladder etc and never see lung cancer. Anyway, that is
simplistic. When you low carb you instead, restrict certain foods. Tell
me how eating the recommended amount of protein per day in the form of
lean meats, oily (omega 3) fish plus a large amount of nutritionally
rich vegetables plus other foods deemed by professionals to promote
good cardio vascular health (almonds, walnuts, olives/olive oil,
avocados etc) can actually cause even minor problems to a body? How
much of the world's population eat some kind of junk everyday? How many
eat craploads of highly nutritious veggies? Hell, there are campaigns
world-wide trying to make people eat even a total of 5 fruits and
veggies a day let alone lots more.

You are barking up the wrong tree. People who lower their carbs add
back much more with respect to good nutrition than those who eat lots
of grains and other starches every day. Comparing nutrients, I bet low
and lower carbers get more nutrition, much more than their starch
eating counterparts, in a day.

I could be wrong, but don't the Eskimos normally eat a low carb diet? I
mean... They can't grow stuff there, can they?

Yes! the Eskimos do eat a low carb diet. I don't know if they can grow
anything there or not, but they now import other foods.

However, I would not mention their low-carb diets too loudly because
their life expectancy is only 45 years.
I think you will find that that statement about Inuit life expectancy goes
beyond their diet. It's about the conditions they live in, the
transistion from their traditional culture to modern living, etc. It
includes alcohol and drug dependancy, drowning, unemployment, low income,
low education attainment, etc, etc. Therefore, I'd say stress related
disorders contribute to the early death of said Inuits - as opposed to the
diet.

Genetically, the Inuits have much lower incidence of ischaemic heart
disease probably relating to genetic factors, their diet, and regular
exercise.

With the exception perhaps of your last paragraph, you have described quite
well the living conditions found in many, if not all, modern metropolises.

Living can be hell, but I don't want to give it up anytime soon, do you?




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