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Why don't you want to eat too many carbs? What's wrong with carbs? Do you think that it's alright to eat unlimited amounts of protein? Do you class fruits and veg as dangerous carbs? Doesn't leave much else to eat does it. If you eat low carbs, how are you gonna get your body's requirements for vitamins, minerals, fibre???? You won't get any of those from protein.

Low carb diets are a myth. It's usually not the carbs themselves that are the problem, but the processed rubbish, fat and sugar that go with these carbs that you don't even think about.

Atkins himself admitted that his diet was nutritionally inadequate and you would need to take vitamin and mineral supplements whilst following it. While supplements can be helpful in certain circumstances, it's FAR better to get these naturally throught your diet.

It's also a myth that the hunter-gathers ate unlimited amounts of protein. If so, why were they called 'hunter-gatherers'?? They had to hunt and go in search of their protein (involved LOTS of exercise). And they migrated all over the world in search of it. Suggests such protein was in limited supply???? The rest of the time their diet was based on what they could find - nuts, seeds, fruit, veggies, roots, tubers, whole grains. When they did eat animal protein it's fat levels then were nothing compared to what they are now.

Nations that eat high amounts of carbs and relatively low levels of high fat animal proteins: Mexico, Japan, Brazil and Argentina - diets based on rice & beans etc - have the lowest levels of obesity and heart disease in the world.
Nations eating high amounts of saturated fat, animal protein and processed food: UK US Finland and Germany have the highest rates of obesity and heart disease in the world.

Speaks for itself, really.
Hope this is helpful to you.
Shellsbells

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