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need for carbs?

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can anyone direct me to articles/studies
that show we have no biological need
for carbs?
that its glucose we need not necessarily
carbs?
i read some awhile back but cant find them now
 
Sugar is half glucose and half fructose so only half of it raises blood glucose and the rest goes via the liver to be laid down as fat there is not used. So in fact sugar raises the blood glucose less than carbohydrates (whether low GI or not).
Despite the fact that the brain runs on 140g glucose daily, you do NOT need to eat that glucose. Your body makes it in the liver (gluconeogenesis) otherwise we would not make it through the night or a bout of sickness where no carbs were taken in? I mainly eat less than 30g a day and am still functioning very well. Lots of people do ketogenic diets where less than 30g carbs (converted to glucose) are eaten and do very well on them. There may be no need to go that far and I think Precision Nutrition is good at getting people to make better choices rather than going for an extreme change that they will not stick to.
Go to DietDoctor's site for lots of science or watch Steve Phinney/Tim Noakes on YouTube both of whom are well respected academics advocating low carb diets.
 
I agree with @NicoleC1971 The brain is quite happy to function on ketones apart from the synapses and neuronal cells (?). Glucose by way of gluconeogenesis is readily available for these purposes. There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate let alone an essential sugar. There are, however, essential amino acids and fatty acids.
I can't link to papers on this but as has been said there are many lectures on youtube which cite research and articles on the subject.
 
Guzzler said:
I can't link to papers on this but as has been said there are many lectures on youtube which cite research and articles on the subject.
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However, we DO have forum members who've eaten a virtually zero carb diet for longish periods of time, and they are still alive and kicking - so there's some actual evidence for you rather than reported...

And a point ot be aware of - particularly for diet controlled T2s - is that we are essentially cabohydrate intolerant, and as such need to avoid eating them as much as possible, so we mainly obtain our fuel from fats intead, and let our livers provide most of our vital glucose. I had no problems with eating below 20-25 g carbs a day for some time - in fact I was very much better for it, and though I now set myself a somewhat higher maximum level, I'll sometimes eat about half that number. And the reason I eat these carbs is not because I feel I need them to function, but because I enjoy vegetables, fruit and nuts so eating a variety of suitably low carb ones helps make my LCHF diet sustainable long term, currently four years.

Robbity
 
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