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To: LindyBill who wrote (2579)12/12/2008 5:39:31 PM
From: Lane36 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 39363
 
And you claim that stuffing yourself with a pound of walnuts in a week

That's two handfuls a day, just twice your daily ration.

Now you tell us that your diet was already 50% fat.

Low carb diets are inherently high fat. My diet has about 10% carbs. The rest is protein and fat. There are only three macronutrients to choose from. Your diet isn't really low carb, but in reducing your carbs by the elimination of wheat, corn, and sugar you had to have increased your proportion of fat. I'll bet it's 40% Have you ever calculated it?

No, no, Lane. I won't buy your reasoning.

I understand that you are not accustomed to nor receptive to the critical construction of experiments and how one isolates variables. Even so, it has to be obvious that if you add 400 calories from nuts (or anything else) to a weight-stable diet, the differential of 400 calories will result in weight gain. If I had eaten your oatmeal/nut/raisin/milk/flax breakfast (611 calories, 37% fat) atop my diet instead of simply walnuts, I would have gained even more. The weight gain would have been attributable to the variable, the oatmeal. That shows causation because it's the only variable. If you cut out wheat or add fat to your diet but don't hold the rest of the diet stable, you get correlation, not causation.
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