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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You will die on a NO-carb diet. Your body needs some carbs. You can do low carb, even extremely low carb, but not no carb.

And Israeli cous cous is not healthier than regular cous cous, the "pearl" size is just bigger.[/quote]

This statement is absolute baloney.  The Inuit ate nothing but meat and fat for nearly all months of the year and they were incredibly healthy ... Until they began trading with Europeans for white flour, sugar, etc.  Same with the Masai.  And they did not develop scurvy because the body recycles the small amount of vitamin C it obtains from meat.  Eating carbohydrates increases the amount of vitamin C your body needs beyond what you can get without eating fruit.

Because the average American eats about 350 grams of carbs a day, eating "low carb" could be defined as eating 100 grams a day, a level which would not put you in nutritional ketosis but would be very helpful in lowering blood glucose and insulin levels and thus reduce body fat over time.  The key as noted by others is to make those 100 grams be very nutritious rather than reserve them for sugar, flour, and so forth.  [/quote]

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