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Fast food: McDoubles hold the bun, Chipotle bowl (no rice/beans), Wendy's Baconator hold the bun, buffalo chicken wings (baked not breaded).

PS. I've found more good blogs to subscribe to rather than websites. Poke around the ones I listed above, as well as here, and you'll find links to build your library of recipes. I think there are also recipes in the back of Gary Taubes', David Williams', Dr. Perlmutter's books:

http://www.amazon.com/Grain-Brain-Surprising-Brains-Killers-ebook/dp/B00BAXFCPO/

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes-ebook/dp/B000UZNSC2/

http://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Lose-Weight-Health-ebook/dp/B00571F26Y/

You can read more about Banting's experience with weight loss in the introductory section of Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories. After failed prior attempts at weight loss, Banting encountered a physician who'd attended lectures given in France by a physician who'd been advocating something akin to what we know a carb-restriction. Banting tried it, and it worked like nothing he'd done before. It led him to publish a pamphlet sharing his experience. Health authorities of the day derided him for daring to tread upon their area of expertise, but the general public took note. "Banting" and "to Bant" became part of the common lexicon for a time.

Principal difference between then and now is Banting's generation didn't have the benefit of knowing the details of biochemistry and endocrinology that inform current ideas about nutrition and health. For Banting and those who were paying attention back then, it was basically the observation that some kinds of foods tended to make people fat.

First rule of keto.. let them do some research on their own.

Okay, I think I understand all your arguments at this point. I think there are some essential disagreements still, but I don't want to keep trying to unpack them here.

> You have the same problem in the medical field, actually, if not worse. And that better be considered science in some regard, or we're really in trouble.

On that note, I have a book recommendation for you: Good Calories, Bad Calories. You can safely ignore most of Taubes' claims about carbs being evil. It's worth reading just for his history of nutrition "science" in the US and how our society came to decide what is or is not healthy. I found it both fascinating and appalling.

> The thing is, keto is not the only way to eat healthy. You can have a diet high in natural carbs and be very healthy.

I think there's a lot of reading on the subject at this point (much of it featured on the keto calculator page linked in the sidebar) that would refute that, respectfully. Gary Taubes wrote a whole book titled Good Calories, Bad Calories that tackles exactly this question. I think you would get a lot out of it.

That said, I can't laugh at people who eat badly. It just makes me feel frustrated and sad that Western nutrition has gone completely sideways.

Read Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes.

Solid read on the history of the nutritional recommendations we're currently faced with.

See these books for learning the REAL SCIENCE that is used to explain it to doctors. The author goes around the country giving lectures at medical schools.

A little bit hard core medical, with well documented sources and footnotes but still easy to read:
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes-ebook/dp/B000UZNSC2

Same material, even easier to read for general public:
http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About-ebook/dp/B003WUYOQ6

wrong about the cholesterol part. Inflammation is one of the reasons I started this diet (also trying out the gelatin craze to get more glycine in my diet).

edit: good calories bad calories is a great source for understanding the latest science around it. There's also some great youtube videos out there, but I don't have them handy.

Hey girl, so there is a loooooooot of explanation for why this all is, but in a nutshell:

Our bodies need cholesterol to do a ton of shit in our bodies. It's a vital part of cellular membranes, helps with tissue healing, helps insulate neurons and shit, and also is the starting component of most sex hormones. We need so much, in fact, that our bodies MAKE cholesterol on our own. Over 70% of the cholesterol in our bodies is made by our bodies, with only 30% or less being absorbed by the food we eat. In fact, some studies have indicated that when we eat foods lower in cholesterol, our bodies start making more to make up for it.

So why do we think that cholesterol is bad for us? In essence, people started noticing that in heart disease and other issues of the circulatory system, these weird pussy plaques of cholesterol were building up in veins and arteries, leading to blockages. People thus assumed that this was the result of cholesterol depositing itself on the blood vessel walls, like fat down a drain.

This has been comprehensively proven to NOT be the case. What actually happens is that high blood pressure or other issues sometimes leads to small tears or damage in the blood vessel wall. Well, remember I said cholesterol is part of the tissue healing process? Thus, when blood vessels are damaged, cholesterol molecules are brought in to help heal the tear, like a bandaid. But if people are dealing with a lot of problems with inflammation in their body, the inflammation cycle starts running amok, preventing the tear from healing properly, which triggers more cholesterol to be brought in, which makes the inflammation worse, etc etc etc. The metaphor that is often used to describe this is that blaming cholesterol for heart disease is like blaming firemen for a building fire. Just because they are at the site of the disaster doesnt mean they are causing the disaster, and more and more research points to inflammation being the root cause of heart disease.

And what makes inflammation worse? High blood sugar, cause by too many easily-absorbed refined carbohydrates, which keto and paleo both strive to avoid.

A great book that summarizes all this research and how we came to have these incorrect health paradigms is Why We Get Fat, by Gary Taubes. It's an accessible read (basically a shorter version of the EXHAUSTIVELY researched Good Calories, Bad Calories) and I cannot recommend it enough to anyone interested in learning more about nutrition to improve their diet and health.

My credentials: I am a biology teacher, also with years of experience as a science writer for health/anatomy/physiology educational material, also I went paleo almost five years ago and lost 40 pounds and cured my depression.

I heard that sweet intensity is very subjective and just a few days can dramatically change how we perceive it. So that piece of cake you are eating could become unbearable if you lower the sweet intensity for few days. Source: from a book http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-ebook/dp/B000UZNSC2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1382538253&sr=8-3&keywords=why+we+get+fat

Yes. We were told in the late 70s that fat and cholesterol was not only bad for us, but it was also deadly. The entire food industry changed from feeding us foods we'd eaten for generations to foods with low or no fats and high sugar contents. What fats we were eating were industrially processed from vegetables, and were high in unstable (easily rancidified) polyunsaturated fat molecules. We were also encouraged to exercise more, and we did.

The net result of all these changes is that we became fatter and sicker. It turns out that the advice we've been following since the 70s was quite wrong. You can find out all that and a lot more in books like Good Calories, Bad Calories.

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes-ebook/dp/B000UZNSC2

And I wanna get to know you better, too!! I was really impressed by your video channel and solid, well-cited advice. It was a great pep talk. I so rarely let myself brag, so I hope you don't mind if I do it a little and tell you about my front squat PR of 300lbs in January...so do I still need more heavy leg work? :P

Bragging aside, I wish I had time to sqwat and deadlift twice a week like I did six months ago, but I'm trying to do well in classes for the first time ever, and that takes more time than anticipated. It's occurred that me that it would be relatively easy for me to start doing weighted pistols, but that, along with a few other exercises, remain on my to-do list.

I get my blood cholesterol tested at least once a year, and while I haven't had it done since my crazy egg experiment (only starting about six weeks ago), I haven't changed my macronutrient ratios much - protein and fat consumption are about the same. I'll take a look at my nutrition bible, AKA Gary Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" tonight to see what kind of intellectually rigorous studies I can pull out about cholesterol. And just as a minor quibble, I get NO cardio. I do strength and anaerobic training, and refuse to do anything else as exercise unless forced to.

And I should have been more clear about my diet - I'm not recommending it to anyone, it's just an experiment with an n of 1. I do a lot of those. So it's been fun and interesting, but I'm craving chicken, rice, and black beans again. Time to hit BJs for some low-quality chicken in bulk.

Read Gary Taubes' [good calories bad calories] (http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes-ebook/dp/B000UZNSC2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417554186&sr=8-1&keywords=good+calories+bad+calories)

TLDR: it's the insulin that makes us fat, not the fat, and it's the sugar that drives the insulin. Also, read especially about OB/OB mice, mice that were bred to be obese. They get obese because they are born that way, they get fat even if you feed them the same amount as other mice, and if you starve them they will not lose weight. An OB/OB mouse will starve to death and still be obese because their cells can't let go of stored fat. It's not always just bad choices, there are real physiological things that can go wrong that can't be fixed. Ever. Childhood obesity needs to be viewed like the disability that it is and treated with much more compassion, and reasonable expectations.

> public health initiatives

You mean like the US government championing low-fat, high-carb diets to combat heart disease? It made the problem worse and gave rise to the obesity epidemic.

Edit: In case people are interested in reading more, my source for this comment is Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

So you want real evidence? You want to know more right? You just can't comprehend that changing your diet would benefit your skin, right? Well, here is your "real" evidence. This is a booklist that gave me insight on why there is a current diabetes health crisis in the world and what highly processed carbs can do to one's body. You asked for it, you shall receive:

http://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Lose-Weight-Health-ebook/dp/B00571F26Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395103560&sr=8-1&keywords=wheat+belly

http://www.amazon.com/Grain-Brain-Surprising-Brains-Killers-ebook/dp/B00BAXFCPO/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1395103560&sr=8-7&keywords=wheat+belly

http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About-ebook/dp/B003WUYOQ6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395103576&sr=8-1&keywords=why+we+get+fat

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Gary-Taubes-ebook/dp/B000UZNSC2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1395103576&sr=8-3&keywords=why+we+get+fat