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I'm 5'4" and 119#. I run about 3 miles thrice weekly and do yoga twice a week. My focus is virtually eliminating refined carbohydrates and eating plenty of fat. I aim for 50-60% fat, with the remainder split more or less evenly between carbs and protein. So for me, that's roughly 100 grams of each macro-nutrient per day.
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nomnompaleo dinneralovestory gatheredtable
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@J72FIT, so I looked up the reference and it's not very strong evidence. The research that was referenced in that WebMD article was actually just a letter to the editor rather than a full research report -- as such it didn't include much raw data. There was a single figure that showed the weight loss over time in the two…
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Here's another cool study. This trial randomly assigned people to either a low fat diet or a low carb diet and followed them for 12 months. The low carb group lost more weight than the low fat group and regained less. The kicker, though, is that the low carb group lost weight in excess of what would be predicted by the…
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Let's add some science to the conversation. Here's a very cool study. Best to read the article yourself, but my summary is this: researchers created a strain of mice that produce less insulin than control mice in response to a standardized diet. Both the experimental and control mice were fed the same diet and observed.…
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I have a green smoothie for breakfast almost every day. I generally use a cup of unsweetened almond milk, a generous splash of coconut water, an avocado and several big handfuls of raw greens (kale, chard, spinach, etc.). I add whatever fruit I have on hand ... yesterday half a banana, today a pear. So yummy.
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At the risk of enraging the weirdly defensive CICO peeps -- here's my story. I've weighed 120# for more than a decade but in the past six months or so slipped up to 130# due to stress, poor sleep, limited exercise, and IMO excess carbohydrate intake esp sugar leading to visceral fat accumulation. For the first time in my…
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This doesn't explain a whole host of observations, like: - within a given population, poor people are the fattest - the co-existence of malnutrition and obesity in poor places - traditional societies who had no scarcity of food and still had lean bodies (eg, Pima prior to the advent of processed carbohydrates) Anyway, I…
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Well, to be fair, many of those countries are also in serious trouble. Childhood rates of obesity in Brazil are staggering. This report (http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/may/19/brazil-obesity-nutrition-malnutrition) claims half the county is overweight and a third of young children…
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Several pages ago, someone (can't remember who it was) posted a link suggesting that the US does not have the highest sugar consumption in the world. That is technically accurate but when you combine sugar + HFCS, we are the clear winners. Since sucrose and HFCS are, for all intents and purposes, equivalent, here in the US…
