Timeline for What should I eat to recover from eating only `raw' fruits and vegetables for 6 months?
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| Aug 16, 2011 at 8:48 | comment | added | rxmnnxfpvg | As Jeremy Stein says, your 40/30/30 ratio is wrong. It's 40/30/30 calories, which means for a 2000 calorie diet, 800 calories from carbs, 600 from protein, and 600 from fat. Since you get 9 calories to the gram for fat, and 4 for carbs and protein, that means: 800/4 = 200g carbs, 600/4 = 150g protein, and 600/9 = 67g fats. | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 12:20 | comment | added | Berin Loritsch | Bottom line, is that carbs are necessary, but not in the quantity most people eat them. | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 12:19 | comment | added | Berin Loritsch | The major failing of the "food pyramid" is that they don't count starchy vegetables and fruits as carbohydrates. You could follow the USDA's guidelines and have 80% carbohydrates. I think we can all agree that would be disastrous to our waistbands. I also don't believe for a minute that our ancestors did not have any carbohydrates at all. They are contained in fruits and vegetables which they did eat. You can say that our ancestors did anything a million years ago and no one could support or deny it. | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 11:28 | comment | added | Fattie | @An_Ant Hi Berin, the amazing detailed info you provide is epic, but one thing, you mention the "40% carbo" idea that was popularised by the USA govt's "food pyramid" poster they had an ad agency create in 1992. The problem is, I'm sure you agree that this is a current hotly controversial issue. Half of current scientific opinion violently believes we should eat an incredibly large amount (40%!) of carbohydrates, half of scientific opinion believes we should eat no carbohydrates (as we have for 2 million years). It's a tough issue and difficult to present as a fait accompli. | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 19:33 | comment | added | user1653 | @Berin Loritsch: Thanks for answer! Although I don't calculate what I eat to a gram (because I'm kinda skinny and would be happy if I could gain some weight), I'm pretty sure I've balanced my diet (in line with your recommendations) all this time with additional minerals and vitamins in pills also. And I certainly don't have any problems with junk food - I prefer healthy food by far. --- I'll edit my question to try to emphasize core of my problem a little more... | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 18:18 | comment | added | Jeremy Stein | You've got the 40/30/30 ratio wrong. That's calories, not grams. A 2000 calorie diet should be 200g carbs, 150g proteins, 67g fats. | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 18:10 | history | answered | Berin Loritsch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |