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http://www.livestrong.com/article/50913 ... -brain-liv ''Ultimately, a lack of carbohydrates, in combination with a lack of other sources of nutrition, will overwhelm your body's ability to produce and conserve glucose. Potential brain-related effects of this state of malnutrition include...

Ilnar. That's the problem, it's not good for the heart or your arteries as a whole. I can't eat it because I can't manage to eat more meat than that without feeling sick and just cutting down on more carb would probably leave me very tired and very hungry. A cholesterol of up to 5 is ok for a...

Eating that kind of quantity of meats is not healthy and not something I could do so I probably couldn't get enough to convert into glucose. Cholesterol of over 6 is considered high, no doubt contributed to by pork scratchings :shifty:

It's from a brand named Little's, I got it from Amazon. Ahmad tea is also a fantastic brand for all kind of brews. Oh yes, cinnamon is fantastic and a main component of Chai :)

To SamJB Out of interest; Do you feel that your cognitive function/ the ability to undertake mental tasks decrease/increase or stay the same when you are eating a very low amount of carbohydrate in a day? For an experiment I spent a week eating only protein based food (meat etc.) and two...

To Superchip It's important to remember that if you drink alcohol, you are indeed drinking glucose. As a non drinker, I'm sure that anybody that likes their whisky, would be consuming far more glucose per average week than I do :)

To Superchip: http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/carbs.html The brain works better when performing cognitive tasks when an adequate supply of carbohydrates is steadily met. I am a student, therefore it's monumental that I do not go under 80 grams a day.

For me, tea and coffee plus energy drinks are appetite suppressors so I tend to search for new exciting blends and flavours. At the moment I'm loving bourbon vanilla latte in the morning (with sweeteners and skimmed milk) and different black teas throughout the day included flavoured ones...

I'm on a low carb and low calorie diet. The carb I eat is of good quality (sweet potato, banana, couscous and crisp bread) and the fat I eat is also of good quality (rapeseed spread and oil, fish etc.) and I eat the normal amount of protein (150 g meat/fish/poultry/quorn) a day. I am type 1 and...