You may be right, that if you are to get all the micronutrients you need for a healthy metobolism from food, that it would be hard to do that without also getting enough calories. Especially given the minerally depleted state of many of our soils. And probably getting all our nutrients from food would be ideal. I also agree that it is possible to eat a lot of calories while eating a very micronutrient deficient diet. I'm not in favour of only thinking about calories and forgetting the rest.j. said:I don't think you can satisfy your nutrients requirements without eating a lot of calories, but it's possible to eat a lot calories without satisfying the demand of nutrients, if you don't eat enough nutrient dense foods and enough variety, that's why I choose to emphasize the nutrients aspect. Once you satisfy it, you also get the required amount of calories.
Couldn't one eat 1l oj, 2l skim milk, vege broth, eggs incl shells, liver, oysters and gelatine every day, and be not too badly off for protein and micronutrients, but way under calorie requirements?
However, a number of people on this forum use concentrated supplements to meet some of their micronutrient demands, and this can make it look as though micronutrient needs are satisfied while running a severe fuel deficit. And there are people here who say they meet cronometer's requirements while eating under 2000 calories a day, which is not enough. Aren't there a number of ex-low-carbers who ate a nutrient dense diet that drove their metabolism into the ground, and found it started to improve by adding in white rice, which doesn't have a lot going for it other than the carbohydrate itself? And the culture routinely gives messages about calories being bad.
There are people here who have been supplementing thyroid while eating well under 2000 calories/day.
I think people have quoted Peat as suggesting eating sucrose temporarily when suitable fruit is not available?
In the context of people who have been chronically undereating to the point where fuel deficiency may be causal in our reduced metabolism, I think it's important to think about meeting this macronutrient nutrient requirement along with all the others.