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That kind of makes sense. The physiology of low carb is as follows: 1. Your body can run on either glucose or ketones for fuel. 2. If you eat under 20g net carb a day, your body will switch from a glucose-based energy metabolism to a ketone-based energy metabolism (benign nutritional ketosis). 3. This means that you're now…

Honestly? Not really. I'd like to think that most people are capable of listening to what another person says, determining whether the person is believable, and making a decision based upon that determination. Is it possible that they could be wrong? Sure. In that case, I expect that most people are able to understand that…

They convey plenty of information to those who aren't trying to be willfully obtuse to score internet points. Saying things like "all food is processed" is a great gotcha, if that's what you're into. Reasonable adults, having reasonable communication, understand idiomatic expressions and don't feel the need to call out…

Are you always this sensitive? The original post you quoted never said it did: If a person is eating a diet of high processed foods, and becomes unhealthy, obese, etc., and wants to become more healthy, less obese, etc., and switch to a more whole food, minimally processed diet, and in doing so, becomes more healthy and at…

I'm not going to address the rest of the post, though I would take issue with many parts of it, but this needs to be corrected. VLC diets put the body into a state of nutritional ketosis. This is absolutely not the same thing as ketoacidosis, which is a negative complication usually associated with diabetes. Edit to be a…

People say that (perhaps not you) in order to undermine the validity of what someone said far too frequently. Yes, to say that "not being able to afford a nutritious diet" and "being overweight" correlate with each other does not mean that the first causes the second (although, you also can't say that it doesn't cause it…

This is a pretty valuable point (albeit phrased in a regrettably inflammatory manner). I don't believe it's uncommon to see people who treat food like alcoholics treat alcohol or drug addicts treat their drug of choice. For instance, very few alcoholics start out down and out. They start like anyone else -- few drinks here…

As a member of the scientific community, I'll hedge and say "it's highly likely".

I'll bet you money that if you drink diet soda, you'll die. Wanna take the bet? :laugh:

As for the OP: It's a complex and personal topic. My questions to you would likely be this: Will drinking an occasional soda make you crave more soda, make it harder to maintain your dietary goals? If no, then do you have extra calories available in your day? If yes, do you want the soda badly enough to exchange it for the…

I'm going to disagree with that.. I think, as far as the food banks go, if the goal is to fight hunger, you fight it with whatever you have - be it potato chips, pop tarts, or foie gras. People should never be hungry or starving in this country. As for not wasting food thing is concerned, that mindset is not why Americans…

Thanks for the reminder. I find it frustrating, because I do take some care in order to be clear in threads like this, when people read things that aren't present in the post itself. I should work on that. :laugh: I don't find anything to disagree with here. I think people get to choose the things that work best for them,…

So, we've went from talking about a population as a whole, to the people on this site, to the people on the forums, to the people who are highly active on these forums, to the people who are highly active on these forums and have pictures. If that's the type of leaps and bounds you need to take to make your point valid,…

Feel free to whistle into the wind. You know what you were implying when you wrote that. If all you're interested in is playing semantic games, congratulations. You win.

Well, let's hope that there's not a dozen skinny vegans looking to boost their post counts, otherwise we'll have to change the categorizations. Even worse if there are a dozen people ripped on dog food.

Well, one, that's not what I said, and two, no, the people you see regularly are the couple dozen very outspoken proponents of it here, most of whom are doing well. Even given the fact that IIFYM started in bodybuilder circles, its more widespread adoption makes it highly unlikely that your statement is true. Diets fail.…

Let's not fight poor assertion with poor assertion. The majority of IIFYM adherents are likely overweight, and are very likely to continue to be overweight. Just like with every other diet ever.

That's fair -- I didn't mean to imply you were preaching with this post. Sociologically, it's an interesting thing to observe the following scenario: a. We have a whole lot of overweight people. b. A majority of them likely want to lose weight. c. It's not a secret how to do it, it's been preached for a long time, and they…

Our governmental dietary guidelines? The idea of balance and moderation is pretty much hand in hand with the food pyramid, or plate or whatever they have now. Caloric deficit should not be a new concept to anyone in America -- just go into Planet Fitness or any other chain gym. They're not making their money on the…

I think part of it is semantics, like I mentioned -- they're saying "empty", but they likely mean "poor, relative to" or "empty, in relation to" -- they've heard the term "empty calories" for so long that it's the first that comes to mind. If they've lost some weight, they likely changed from a diet where they were eating…

For what it's worth, we've been preaching moderation as a response to the obesity epidemic for 50 years, and it's only getting worse.

I can get behind this.

You might want to reevaluate your belief that not everyone has the same tendencies and desires towards food that you do. Also, denigrating people with a different philosophy than you as not having researched or are being unrealistic is probably not the way to have a good conversation -- though it's not particularly clear…

It really ends up becoming a semantic debate. People view the 50g of white bread and the calories it imparts (200kcal) and then look at the nutritional information. Then they look at, say, an isocaloric amount of, as a for instance, spinach, beef, and rice. Calorie for calorie, the second meal has more fat, more fiber,…

Posts like this are one of the the rudest things I consistently come across in these fora.

Nah, I live about 80 miles away. It sucks there.

Somebody finally asked this question. It's about time.

This back and forth has to be the most MFP argument ever.

I went with a HFLC diet. I eat about 70% fat, 25% protein, and 5% net carb on any given day (works out to about 25g net carbs).

For starters, I used your post, but didn't mean to group you into those people. The posts of yours that I've seen are always respectful, so thank you for increasing the level of discourse. I'm not certain necessarily that one needs to "build a relationship with food" in order to be successful. Food is fuel for our bodies.…