If there's anything I am prone to addicting, it would be food. Always could sit in on a cigarette with a friend on a late-night study session or party, or give up marijuana as required by my environment without much concern beyond losing my most effective pain meds... but processed, fatty foods seem to have power over me. From middle school on I started studying nutrition to reconcile the image of my body I had in my mind and what I saw in the mirror.It took until about college to follow that knowledge thread all the way to the high-carb vegan camp before I started actually getting results that I was expecting the whole time. Just full-body appreciation for what I'm feeding it.
In my understanding there are specifically two sides to this fence. High fat diets that effectively nix the carbs AND high carb diets that cut out nearly all the fats and proteins BOTH work. The real culprit is when you combine the two. Sugar does not cause diabetes. The direct combination of sugars + fats does. Consuming sugars and fats simultaneously make it difficult for your insulin to uptake the sugars in your system and starts a devastating cycle of releasing more and more, now, fat-coated insulin to uptake greased-up carbohydrates to try to take them to the cells. When they fail to do so efficiently more and more insulin is released until the fat starts to exit the bloodstream hours later and suddenly your blood is full of insulin with little sugar left to deal with so it cleans it right up, leaving you with extremely low blood sugar, a tired pancreas, and ultimately candida malfunction. In this case it seems you can solve the issue by leaning heavily either direction. Cut out the carbs so your body acclimatizes to breaking fats and proteins down into the necessary sugars and your blood-fat is no longer an issue, or, on the preferred, and seemingly more efficient side for me, cut out the fats and you will find your body finds it simple and beautifully efficient to extract whatever amount of pure carbohydrates you can stuff in yourself and distribute immediately for healthy and bountiful energy.The real root of the issue(as this argument goes) is that the lab studies that try to include high-carb diets are NOT truly high-carb in this sense. High-carb seems to require 10% or less calories from fat while mainstream studies are closer to around 30% or so calories from fat. This is 3 times as much fat and is plenty enough to ruin your sugar metabolism.There is no particular nutrient you will be deficient in on a high-carb plant-based diet. The only real danger is B12 and that's something both meat eaters and vegetarians alike are deficient in thanks to modern farming practices. 5 years of no big animal product consumption, 3 years more strictly high-carb vegan and I've gotten 2 blood tests with A+'s across the board from cholesterol to triglycerides, etc etc. DurianRider has been HCV and posting his equally successful bloodwork and boasting his athletic prowess for 9 years and there are plenty more examples that according to any of the popular models today should be withering away and invoking major injury due to malnutrition. This is clearly not the case.
To me this means any understanding of human biology and nutrition that does not explain this and cannot predict nor incorporate this data into its model is wholly off-base and harmfully towing the corporate, medical, statist line that's been lobbied and manipulated by some of the biggest and most influential industries in our recent and modern history, meat and dairy.
