Bobo Bonobo® > wrote:
>On Jul 13, 11:17 pm, Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>> Omelet > wrote:
>> >In article >,
>> > Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>>
>> >> Gregory Morrow > wrote:
>> >> >> > Eggs are high in Iron??? :-(
>>
>> >> >> Yes, they are.
>>
>> >> >One of the reasons why eggs are called "the perfect food"...
>>
>> >> Whoever called them that ignored their near total lack
>> >> of carbohydrates. Must've been that Atkins hack.
>>
>> >There is no such thing as an "essential carbohydrate".
>>
>> Your brain runs on complex carbohydrates. Cut down your
>> intake of them and you'll go stupid and sleepy.
>
>Your brain DOES NOT run on complex carbs. You are blowing out your
>ass.

Okay, Dr. Atkins II.

>During periods of plenty, your brain cells run on GLUCOSE, which is a
>SIMPLE, not a "complex" carbohydrate.

Your body breaks complex carbohydrates into simple carbohydrates.

Eating simple carbohydrates is a good way to drop your metabolism
and make yourself fatter at the same calorie intake.

>Brain cells can also run on
>ketones.

"The brain has a residual need for glucose because
ketones can only provide energy when used during aerobic
respiration in mitochondria. In the long thin neurons,
much of the metabolically active cellular membrane must
derive its energy from glucose via anaerobic respiration
without the assistance of mitochondria."
http://www.answers.com/topic/ketosis?cat=health

Translation: your brain can't run on ketones for long.

>I never felt more alert than when I was in ketosis. The first few
>days are a bitch, but after that you're fine. During times when
>you're running a big time calorie deficit, your head can feel swimmy,
>but that's the case with any calorie deficit, ketogenic diet or
>otherwise

You're lucky you didn't die.

>> And if you don't have them your liver puts you into a
>> state where you lose weight, both muscle and fat. It's
>> an illness, not a diet.
>
>Even if the ketogenic diet were unhealthy, which it is not for most
>folks,

It's not fatal for most folks. It's unhealthy for all folks.
It's a state of starvation.

>almost nothing is worse than obesity.

Have you ever tried the Internet? I used to be fat, and I used
to talk to people on the Internet, and I can tell you, being
fat is less trouble sometimes.

>Also, every weight loss
>regimen causes one to lose "both muscle and fat."

Ketosis causes you to lose muscle at least as fast as you
lose fat. Your body thinks it is starving and is trying
to keep you alive longer by reducing your metabolism to
near zero. Eating properly, avoiding things like ketosis,
and exercises to maintain a muscular-adaptation bias,
will keep muscle loss to about 10% the rate of fat loss.

>> >An egg is a very complete food.
>
>You could live healthily off of eggs and cruciferous veggies for a
>long time.

Mmm. Eggs and cabbage at every meal. You can sleep in
the other room.

>> >Might have to do with the fact that it's an incubator for creating a
>> >living animal, so it HAS to be.
>>
>> A living chicken. So it might be complete, for a chicken.
>> If the chicken was an embryo. Which has very different
>> nutritional needs from an adult human.
>
>Not that different.

An adult human can be malnourished eating the diet of an
infant human. Eating the diet of an embryonic chicken
isn't likely to be better.

Here's a clue: There is no "perfect food". There are very
good foods, like eggs and bananas, but neither is perfect.

And making yourself sick to lose fat is silly, weak, and
gullible.

--Blair