@Lycanthrope
Every scientist and inventor from Newton to Tesla to Einstein was on a High Carb diet. The scientific and industrial revolution was built and made possible by people on high carb diet.
High fat low carb diet blunts pituitary growth hormone release in children
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pedi.12527
Victorian labourers ate twice as much calories as modern man in carbohydrates, whole loaves of bread a day and never got obese, doing manual labour up until 70.
You think top sportsmen like Roger Federer and Lionel Messi are scoffing down meat or fat at intervals in sports game?
To say carbohydrates are evil is to say the whole of the last 10,000 years of human civilisation is wrong and you are right.
Obesity in the history of Europe existed only amongst the aristocracy until recently, who ate lots of meat. The thin peasants were stuck on a high carb diet of plants.
Today westerners eat meat and dairy and drink refined carbs (sugar) twice a day.
The main calories in the 500+calorie burgers westerners eat is not the small bread bun, aka the carbohydrate in it.
Dr on a pure meat has lower testosterone than women
I could go on until the cows come home.
Obesity in the rich was due to sugar consumption, which became more common-place with the refining of beet, as opposed to cane sugar in the last 100 ears or so (don't quote me on the actual dates).
Actually, meat and fat consumption has dropped in western society over the last 30 years, the low-fat, high-carb message was very effective. Likewise people exercise more. But everyone's getting obese, with T2DM or pre-T2DM, how come?
Top-level sportsmen do require a lot of calories, it's true. These calories can be easily gathered from body-fat if you're fat-adapted to burning ketones. Otherwise they will indeed ingest a lot of carbs, I'm sure.
And yes, the last 10000 years of human evolution have been a disaster - we got smaller and our brains shrank. We live longer, but that's due to less trauma and modern medicine controlling contagious disease and decreasing deaths at birth. Our health-span, however, is much shorter than our ancestors.
Clarification: High fat low carb diet blunts pituitary growth hormone release in
6 children with
T1Diabetes
My point, which you're missing totally, is that vegetables and fruit are necessary, damaging for some. Sugar, industrial seed oils and grains are poisonous. Fructose, in it's processed HFCS is poison.
Meat is a complete food - of course one needs to eat head-to-tail, as our ancestors did. They ate the organs first, then the fat, then the muscle meat last. Most westerners eat muscle-meat and avoid the natural fats and organs. They get their fats from toxic 06-laden seed oils.
Given how most people on this forum are perfectly comfortable with the concept of Big Oil, I struggle to understand why you can't accept Big Food and Big Pharma too. Vegan is their new big thing and they're winning the battle I'm afraid.
A disclaimer as always: if it can be demonstrated that eating a vegan diet is better for my health and for the environment, I'll swap. But it cannot.
