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The cytokine release is exactly what I was describing. It only happens when there is damage and infection to heal. You do not see an inflammation response in a healthy person when they eat sugar/starch. The glycemic index stuff is pretty much nonsense. If you don't have type I diabetes your body is perfectly happy to sop up spikes of sugar and it does no harm at all.

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Thanks. Can you recommend a book?

So the claim that on a ketogenic diet your brain only needs 5% of energy from protein (to make glucose) and the rest from fats and ketones is wrong?

I would recommend Ari Whitten's "Forever Fat Loss" as a book on fat loss nutrition.

I don't know all the detailed claims ketogenic diet advocates make, all I know is that sustained low carbohydrate diets are damaging and a very bad idea. They do in fact work for fat loss in the short run, which is why so many people are buying into it.

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