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Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. McDoughall are my heros. Carbs and starch are not the problem, animal fats and proteins are. Whole food plant based diet are the best

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Greger's "How Not To Die: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, and Reversing Our Top 15 Killers" has lots of data while remaining quite entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXXygDRyBU&t=2m11s

A 3-minute video of Dr. Gregor on diabetes: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-diabete...

For more information, search the nutritionfacts.org site for "diabetes".

The whole-food plant-based diet is the healthiest diet for humans.

It's interesting that once I cut out grains, potatoes, pasta, fruit/sweets, starches and continued to eat beef, chicken, fish, Organ meat, low carb vegetables and foods filled with fat (nuts, cheese, olives, etc) caused a 100lb weight loss that I have kept off over 3 years. This was without any exercise or extra activity.

Perhaps I am an outlier.

I think that's pretty normal. Carbohydrate-heavy foods are good for over-loading your body with enegy. It's fine if you're working on a farm 10 hours a day, less so if you're sitting in an office.

The reality is 2k calories of lean meat, fruits, and veggies is A LOT more food than 2k calories worth of cereals. It's physically difficult to overeat when your diet looks like that.

Worked for me too.

Still mad about eating breakfasts of skim milk and unsweetened shredded wheat for years.

Now it is whole milk with bacon and eggs every morning.

Whole milk has a lot of carbs. Something folks might want to know if they are trying to reduce carbs.

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