Link: Nora Gedgaudas
Title: Safe Starches: To Eat or Not to Eat?
Title: Safe Starches: To Eat or Not to Eat?
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Summary:
Nora Gedgaudas takes on Paul Jaminet's rationale for including safe starches in the diet. Her arguments boil down to the oft repeated meme that we humans have no dietary need for glucose because we can make all we need. She goes into Paul's arguments for starches from his breast-milk composition, body composition and food reward perspectives. The remainder of the substantative part of the interview is spent trying to find other reasons why many folks start to decline on long term VLC diets. Enter theme I'm seeing parroted by TWICHOOBs in comments about the ever increasing list of low carb bloggers jumping ship: we're all just addicts. With a chuckle (joined by Sean) Nora wonders if methadone is to heroine as "safe starches" are to sugar. You see, we're all addicts now. After that, the remainder of the (way too long) interview is spent hemming and hawing and patronizing to make sure to list areas of agreement with Paul Jaminet and a little fawning from Sean over Nora's knowledge and intellect. If you're pressed for time and inclined to listen at all, you won't miss much after the 40 minute mark.
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