The Cult of the Bulletproof Coffee Diet

Read the link.

>For most people, it stores it as fat and does nothing because most people eat enough carbs (quick burning source of energy) to never have to switch to fat burning.

So insulin is a problem because of what then? And how is that different from what would happen if you replaced those carbs with fats? (Please don't actually answer with the keto nonsense, read the link and see that the answer is "nothing would change").

Why would it say something that absurd, and why do you think I believed it did? I said nothing even remotely like that, and that doesn't even make sense.

>Both obviously have huge implications on weight management

Except that the evidence suggests otherwise, that's the point.

>But please point out the misrepresentation, because if were trying to be more concise I would say: "switches from fat-burning to carb-burning/fat-storing".

You just did. There is no "fat burning mode" and "carb burning mode". Again, the link I already gave you very nicely and clearly discusses this.

I know that. And I am saying they are basing that on nothing. They just said "the data is less important than what we think the data should look like based on our feelings".

>Have you ever eaten a boiled potato with nothing else on it? It tastes terrible

Yes, they taste fine. Obviously they taste better with salt and pepper and butter, but they are not unpalatable without them. Have you ever eaten boiled pasta with nothing else on it? How is that more palatable?

I find it hard to think that amount causes a person to avoid potato. Did the researcher actually notice potato-aversion, or are they (and this is not a bad thing) speculating?

This website describes a simple regression (with 4 to 9 degrees of freedom depending on your underlying assumptions, let us assume 9 which is the "worst") that has a good match to that data of 38 points; if you are familiar with the quality of nutrition "science", this is actually extremely good match - e.g. atwater factors are often 30%-50% different than expected (and assumed "ground truth" based on 100 year old measurements) when actually measured. You have to not trust either atwater or the more recent measurements - possibly both.

Now, this regression, seems to hold very well with the exception of potatoes. From this, personally, I would infer either (a) a mistake somewhere in the data collection or (b) potatoes are special among the foods tested in a way not captured in this regression.

Actually working in data science for a living for a few years, my experience is that the practical thing to do is to drop the outliers from your dataset on one hand (so that your regressions and descriptions are robust with respect to the data that you DO consider) and investigate the outliers on the other hand, to figure out if it's an error in the input or a missing input (e.g., I would guess measurements like "water per cm^3" and "weight per cm^3" might be good measurements - if I had a proper "test set" to validate them against; just adding more measurements is usually NOT what you want to do).

Potato could be special in its effects on hunger / satiety - I don't know. e.g. among common food items, fresh eggs and fresh milk are special in the sense that, unlike any other "single" food item, they are each individually enough to sustain life. But based on the data I can find by googling (hardly anything to base policy on, but what I personally used as input) - I assume that, for whatever reason, potatoes are an exception to the general rule.

You may disagree, but I hope you at least understand my response.