Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver

The article speaks to a "paleo approach" to nutrition by reducing carbs and increasing fat intake... the average North American consumes about 400 grams of carbs a day and over the past 30 - 35 years North Americans have ballooned in size and this correlates with changes in nutritional guidelines that saw people decreasing their fat intake and increasing their carbohydrate intake by a corresponding amount.

To see more and more people adopting lower carb diets and living active lives without issue is promising, seeing athletes performing at much higher levels on carb reduced diets demonstrates that what we think we know might be wrong.

Most cyclists are not racing to win the maillot jeune but are looking at increasing their endurance and overall physical health.

Speaking from my own experience I have found that a lower carb diet (nothing radical) has benefitted me greatly and that performance on and off the bike has only improved and my wife is falling out of her clothes after struggling with losing weight for quite a long period of time and has some incredible energy.

She has metabolic issues that stem from having to take synthetic thyroid hormone and gained weight after surgical procedures and a lower carb diet has been working wonderfully. As a woman who is approaching that change in life she is most concerned with entering middle age in the best shape possible.

Her diet would have been considered exceptional by most but consuming the daily recommendation for carbs was still too much... while still eating the same amount of calories from different sources she has seen great benefits.

I am firmly in the camp that it is not so much about how much people eat (some folks do eat way too much) but that what they are eating is a major cause of the weight and obesity issues that now afflict the majority of people.