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17:13 · 3.9M views · Dec 4, 2012
Dr. John McDougall argues at TEDxFremont that starch-based diets are what humans were born to eat, drawing on 40 years of nutrition and disease work.
Listed as one of several resources for high-carb, low-fat diets in nutrition debates, not heavily endorsed.
3 comments from Hacker News
I commend your effort, but don't even try bringing up Veganism on Hacker News. I've tried to do the same and low-carb dogma ideologues lost their minds to the point logical and evidence-based dialogue became impossible. My own theory is, there is too much emotional attachment to eating meat, dairy and eggs in Americans to consider Veganism seriously. They will perform incredible mental gymnastics to justify their violent ideology promoted and ingrained by USDA and Animal Ag. Regarding the NY Times article itself - it is the usual incoherent nonsense, citing how "USDA began recommending a high-carb, low-fat diet" as if to imply Americans then started eating whole plant foods, instead of added sugars and refined carbohydrate. Ignored also are the many studies pointing out low-carb diets are not satiating and promote weight gain and death (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), which is obvious to anyone who has had an unbiased look into Atkins "nightmare" diets [11]. Who wrote the article? None other than a "director" at an organization paid for by Laura and John D. Arnold, which have substantial ties[6] to animal agriculture industry (Another poster in this thread linked to a website trying to discredit Dr. Greger which the Arnold Foundation also paid for.) The low-carb ideologues will vehemently deny the current scientific consensus that we should derive a majority of our calories from carbohydrate (7, 8), citing flawed, biased or outright retracted research, akin to deniers of anthropogenic climat
Thanks for honest answer :) It's interesting how there is so much evidence for whatever approach you take on foods :D I guess one can only try and see how anything works for him. Well, there is no consensus about common name and there are more than one approaches to this kind of eating (high carb, low fat, low protein) I will list you some references so you can see what I'm talking about. In no special order: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] this video [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]
Carbohydrates do not make you fat. I am eating a high carb vegan diet and have lost 63 pounds since last October. My weight loss: [LINK] I do not restrict the amount of food I eat. I snack and have big meals. Carbs do not make you fat. Eating high caloric density foods makes you fat. More resources: [LINK] this video [LINK]