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Low calorie diet for long term
I'm reading Extinguishing the Fires by Grant and on page 55 I had the following thought in re: this quote:
"Well, it turns out, there are about five foods of any substance that have zero amounts vitamin A. So, the inverse of this is that nearly all foods we consume can have at least some vitamin A content. Amazingly, that is like 99.9% of all foods have some vitamin A, or what is called a vitamin A precursor.
Okay, almost all foods contain some vitamin A. The more popular foods such as eggs, milk and low-fat dairy products, many fruits, tomatoes, tomato based sauces, bell peppers, fish, cheese, pizza, yams, sweet potatoes, many spices, carrots, etc. are very high in vitamin A. Now add to that just the abundant volume of food consumed per person in North America.
If vitamin A is considered to be a micronutrient, how the hell could anyone in North America be deficient in it? It’s well known that the body stores and accumulates it. If you accumulate too much of it, you will get extraordinarily and painfully sick. So, in the face of all that, we are supplementing the national milk supply with it." -Grant Genereux
So, eating less food. What if we took a good hard look at those studies about total number of calories related to longevity. What if we did a whole different study that looked at a low calorie diet that was low in vitamin A vs. a low calorie diet that is higher in vitamin A (like normal amounts that North Americans get), and also another or integrated study that looks at moderate calories with both low and high vitamin A. Now you see that it's possible that the *accumulative trait* of Vitamin A (into fat) and the total load/threshhold of an individuals' aount of Vitamin A could have more to do with that level reather than the total number of calories. The higher amount of calories simply increases the possibility of higher total Vitamin A (theoretically a toxin that is at the root of all these autoimmune diseases—Genereux)
@rachel-2 sounds very likely to me. I find when I put my vA ‘glasses’ on things that didn’t make sense seem to make a lot more sense. Whether it turns out to be the reason or not remains to be seen but it sounds a good possibility.
When I was studying nutritional therapy I found it really strange that you have people adamant that particular diets are the best for health & other people say the opposite. Obviously individual genetics/microbiome can be a factor but what if the common factor is vA load? A particular diet can be interpreted in a very different way. The vegan diet can be full of beans/lentils or it can be full of sweet potato! One vegan diet would be advantageous for excreting vA & the other for building it up. Grant has talked about the two ‘arms’ of the carnivore diet - muscle meat & nose to tail. Same diet supposedly but vastly different interpretations in terms of vA.
@rachel-2 lowering your calories means your body will lower metabolism. Nothing healthy about that. Metabolism is slowing down with age anyway. So last thing that you want to do is speed up that process.. The goal of everyone should be eat as much as possible without gaining fat. That will keep your metabolism high and that will keep your metabolism healthy longer.. There are benefits from intermittent fasting or even longer fasts, but that benefits comes from not eating. So the body can cleanse itself from old damaged tissues. Lowering calories doesn't have that benefit. It has basically only negatives.. I was in "fitness" community a long time and I know really well how damaging it is restricting your calories long term...