Ken O'Neill wrote:
> it
> ignores emerging understanding of human physiology. Some amount of
> high fiber carbs make the engine run at optimum, especially that
> large gland we call the brain.
> 
I'm not aware of such understanding, and the Inuit do OK even now after 
millennia of close to zero carb.

What we might presently call optimum function looks like credulous to me.


 >If you're doing ZC William, I'm curious to learn what you daily caloric
 >demand amounts to and in relation to what specific physical demands.

I'm doing raw zero carb, which I think must have been the actual 
paleolithic diet; this on the evidence of the well nigh miraculous 
healing that has happened to me and others who tried it, and continue. 
See the "Testimonial" post.

Caloric demands - I carry firewood into the house, this used to be hard 
labour when I ate carbs, and shovel lots of snow, also used to be hard 
on the heart. Now, it is to laugh. I no longer even have to mouth breath 
when I do either. Chronic back pain all gone!!!  :D
None of the so-call diseases of aging.  (nock, nock)
This takes ~one pound of soft jerky from grass-finished ground beef 
generously buttered with tallow, occasional eggs. And of course a few 
cups coffee, and many cigarettes. Water.
That's it for physical stuff - I've read that mental activity takes 
something like 40% of calories, and I'm still learning. Nobody measures 
that anyway AFAIK.

I avoid the machinations of modern medicine and other superstitions, so 
no numbers are available except blood pressure - that's reverted to the 
same as when I was 17.

William