If you want science, look up gary taubes. But personal experience is the only way you could ever prove it. Science can say whatever it wants, it just depends who pays more. Except for the few exeptions of people who aren’t bullied into supporting a certain idea/theory with money.

But behind-the-scenes interactions with some members of the Zeroing In On Health bulletin board made me realize that Zero Carb may cause elevated blood glucose in some people. For a more complete account of all of this, interested people can read about it at my blog:

http://lowcarb4u.blogspot.com/2009/07/protein-intake-and-blood-glucose-levels.html

http://lowcarb4u.blogspot.com/2009/07/observations-on-protein-intake-in-low.html

Thanks for letting me add this to my previous comment.

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I haven’t seen that many long term zero carbers that have faithfully stayed with zero carb for a year or longer. Most of them admit to “falling off the wagon” now and then. Perhaps taking vitamins help too. Even though The Bear discouraged it, I know that many zero carbers do take supplements.

And you are right. I should have pointed out that this is a high fat diet.

It appears that each zero carber does the plan a little bit differently. For example, Tooter continues to use her beloved coconut oil, which is definitely plant-based. Some zero carbers follow most of the rules you cited above. Others use a very low carb (<10 per day) version. (On pages 155-156 of the 1972 DADR, Dr. Atkins said that eating essentially zero carbs might be necessary for some very metabolically resistant folks in order to continue to lose weight.)

It’s also important to note that the zero carbers and the very low carbers are not engaging in some form of rabbit starvation by eating only lean meat. They emphasize that it is important to eat lots of fat for this way of life to work.

I’m intrigued by the stories from bulemics that I’ve seen on Low Carb Friends. Some of them find that when they eat zero carb, they are able to stop obsessing about food. If that works in the long run, it would be a very helpful strategy to help people with eating disorders who want to escape the need to think constantly about food.

Right now I’m not pro-zero carbing or against it. If you have any specific evidence that it is dangerous, could you please pass that along?

At the very least, it’s easy to see that cultures who ate their meat minimally cooked or raw weren’t getting genetically modified meat from super bacteria laden factories. Their bodies weren’t being challenged by the same sort of microbial, environmental and lifestyle stresses that we have today, either.

People really need to carefully consider who you are getting health advice from. Doctors aren’t always right, but a population of wrong doctors doesn’t mean some guy on the internet is right either.