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Message: <blockquote data-quote="neilblackwood" data-source="post: 433147" data-attributes="member: 85469">Hi Brett,I'm interested to know if there's a reason why you need to eat carbs, is it purely to put put on weight/fat?It would also appear that, at least for this non diabetic, people can eat as many calories from fat as they want without increasing their fat mass, so long as their diet is low enough in carbs:<a href="http://live.smashthefat.com/why-i-didnt-get-fat/" target="_blank">http://live.smashthefat.com/why-i-didnt-get-fat/</a>Here's another interesting analogy, if a farmer is looking to fatten up their animals, the main ingredient in their commercial feed is going to be grain, something promoted by government that we should all be eating on a daily basis....I do appreciate that DAFNE is a step forward on previous methods of diabetes management and might be a good approach to attain a weight that you're comfortable with, but longer term, if you'd be interested in preventing cellular damage from short term exposure to blood glucose levels above 6-7 mmol/L, low carb can offer protection until a better performing insulin becomes available, and from the research I've listed on the previous page, it seems to be the way we've all been biologically programmed to eat anyway.Neil</blockquote>

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