maybe it's not the fructose causing the obesity but fructose removed from myriad other compounds the interactions of which we don’t yet fully understand
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I agree with this because I feel very different eating a fruit compared to a soda. I don’t really understand why carnivores hate fruit. Your brain and muscles need glucose.
Simple explanations are always enticing to people. It used to be: “saturated fat is bad” or “cholesterol is bad,” and people poisoned themselves for decades eating low-fat processed carbs.
Now the counter-narrative is simple: “carbs are bad”.
For me, I find it hard to believe that something that looks good, smells good, tastes good, grows on a tree and that’s been around for untold millennia, that bears and other omnivorous animals devour at every opportunity would turn out to be poisonous to me.
Coca-cola, box of Oreos, sure. But seems you’d have to be “educated” to worry about fruit, no one would be worried about it naturally.
I agree with this completely. Especially when you look at athletes at the highest levels. They need simple carbs to prevent their bodies from consuming their muscles for energy. Conversion of fat to energy is not efficient in a fight or flight state. We aren’t carnivores, we never were.
Think you can get more efficient the more accustomed you are to ketosis, and I think *some* people have probably benefitted a lot from carnivore, but the obesity epidemic is recent, and 100 years ago they had access to plenty of fruit.
Think diet is really complex, and you’re gonna steer yourself off a cliff if you try to use “studies show” and “science says” to decide what to eat. First principles IMO are much better heuristics when you’re dealing with complex systems.