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EIRE24 said:post 112532James IV said:post 112522 I apologize for my 1200 calories typo, that was supposed to say 1700. I'm not sure how I flubbed that one. Anyway, either one of those would leave me feeling like crud.
Honestly, I am not trying to debunk anything. I'm simply saying that health is definitely a matter of food, but our environment (internal and external) will change our dietary needs. Would the Inuit thrive on a okinawan style diet? I don't know. And it's fairly irrelevant to my own health. I tried a low fat (less than %10 of calories) for some time and my health became worse. At the time I could not handle starches because of my poor metabolism, so I was drinking tons of juice. When I gave up and added back in saturated fats, I my health improved quickly and after a month or so I was able to eat potatoes with no issues. Eventually I was able to eat other starches like rice and pasta, and had no issues. Now, since I can eat a lot more starch, it's easier for me to get digest sufficient calories, and I am slowly dropping down my fats, and still improving.
My point is that what may be "healthy" for a person may change depending on their current state of health. And saying a particular macronutrient ratio is best for everyone, may hinder people path to long term good health.
Dr Peat may be doing a very low fat diet now, but he did a very high fat (%50 of calories) diet for a while, and apparently has lowered it more and more as time progressed. Is this simply a result of research, or was it a result of responding to his bodys feedback. I don't know because I have not asked, but with my understanding of Dr Peats mind, I'd imagine it's the latter.
James,
What symptoms did you get that your body was not able to handle starches very well? And when you re introduced saturated fat what kind of source was it from? I find that interesting how it improved your ability to handle starches.
They would bloat me up like a balloon, and make me extremely tired If I ate more than a bite or two. I also would have some constipation issues. I honestly don't know why the saturated fat helped, it may have just been that I wasn't able to properly utilize the juice calories, since my body had been so accustomed to burning fat. Or it could have been that the saturated fats helped with digesting or transporting. I can only guess.
I get my fats mostly from beef tallow, coconut, egg yolks, and dairy fat (goat milk, cow cheese, and cow butter.)
Lately my fat and protein have been creeping lower, and my temps, libido, mood, etc, are solid, if not improving. I'm naturally falling into a cyclic diet with high carb (more and more from starch) base, and some days with higher fat and/or protein. Which is sort of how I ate many years ago, before the Internet told me what was healthy.
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