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Re:If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice by merpnderp on Monday December 28, 2015 @03:00PM (#10803017)
And yet the research keeps pointing in a single direction. Low carb diets improve cholesterol and triglycerides, and reduce weight. No one thinks that when you eat 4K calories of bacon, butter covered vegetables, and more bacon, that your body is actually making use of all that energy. But if you eat cereals, sugar, and potatoes, there's quite a bit of evidence that your body does make use of it all.

I'm sure your advice is well intentioned, but I'll go with what the research keeps alluding to.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/lo...

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Re:If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice by mod on Monday December 28, 2015 @03:52PM (#10803304)
Your source makes no mention of calories (in fact, the term is not used on the page whatsoever).

Low carb diets are effective, and it's in large part because people on low carb diets eat fewer calories.

Your body (not your stomach) IS a fuel tank that stores the fuel it can't use. That's a very apt description, actually, except that you said it was not.

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Re:If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice by fallingfrog on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:33PM (#10804828)
You know though, in all fairness I'm being really way too negative. I'm sorry about that- not my place. You know I came across this really cool website called nerd fitness which has mottos like "join the rebellion " and "level up your life" and it sounds dumb but it actually really helps me to get motivated.. It's funny too and they walk you through how to do a push-up, a deadlift and so on. And they have lots of info on nutrition too, they tend to be paleo fans.
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Re:If Doctors Learned to Cook, They Might Give Better Advice by fallingfrog on Monday December 28, 2015 @04:46PM (#10803588)
If you eat 4 kcals worth of bacon a day, my friend, you are not going to die of old age. I hope for your sake that I'm wrong. But yeah, I would suggest that your body is storing or using the majority of that energy.
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