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A common concern amongst beginner ZCers – and also a sneer at them from the plantatarians – is that the weight lost on a zero-carb/LCHF way of eating is mainly water and muscle.

The continued existence of this myth – which I could easily have devoted a ‘Vegan Pork Pie’ to – is down to the ‘victory of dogma over data‘ as Messrs Volek and Phinney put it. For example, a scientist may design a study to run for two weeks, knowing full well that if it ran for, say, six weeks the results would not look the way they wanted them to look. Or a scientist may choose not to publish ’embarrassing data’, fairly safe in the knowledge that for the most part peer-reviewers won’t go the extra mile and join the dots.

So bad science can turn into misinformation that in turn becomes woven into…

So, to remind you all that the aim of this blog is to attempt to show that there’s no need for any carbs at all in the human diet, which naturally means no fruit and vegetables, and therefore that the old 5-a-day guideline is quite simply misguided and unnecessary. One of my concerns about the downsides of eating a diet that includes carbs is mental health. So I’ll throw out a few basic quickfire points in this post to give you all something to chew on. Food for thought.

We know that the standard western diet (should that be US/UK diet? What nations are more obese than the UK/US?) causes lots of damage: inflammation; oxidation; insulin resistance; hormonal problems; micronutrient deficiencies.

Now then, just as these issues can affect the internal organs and systems, so can they affect the brain. As Dr Georgia Edes, practising psychiatrist and…