Originally Posted by mrfreddy
one of the many wondeful aspects of low carbing is that you actually lose your cravings for sugary sweet things... hard to believe but it is absolutely true. must be because you are giving your body what it needs - fats and proteins. It's a scientific fact that your body does not actually need carbs, ask the eskimos, they know...
OK I'm a big advocate of a high fat/protein diet but there's one thing I better set you straight on. Inuits DO eat some carbohydrates and some carbohydrates ARE important to them.
Are you ready for this.
Stop eating and drinking before you read the next line.
Inuits eat the stomach contents of there prey providing them with partially/pre digested carbs!!
Also the megadose of vitamins scare tactics stem from the consumption of huge amounts of animal fats and animal fats are a huge source of vitA and vitD. Mega dosing can be an issue but the harmfull effects of it are overblown. Overdosing of REAL vitA and vitD will correct itself quickly once the dose is reduced and no long term harm has been noted.
Now overdosing on SYNTHETIC vitA and vitD is a different story. That is harmful so take it easy on your suppliments. What's happened here is that is has been shown clinicaly that high levels of synthetic vitA has caused harm so they have simply ASSUMED that real vitA has the same effect with no evidence at all. See,
http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnut...aminasaga.html
Regards, Anthony