I had the great fortune to meet this guy on several occasions so followed his advice with amazing results.
Personally, I'm dubious about approaches which make a *feature* of tightly restricting any particular class of macro-nutrient: protein, carbs or fats. Don't claim to be any kind of expert, but approaches which place more stress on the source of nutrients, rather than the precise mix, to me make more sense.
In this case, cutting eg nuts & avocados (which I think would be part of low-fat vegan?) because they have too much fat doesn't make any sense to me. The same way that radically cutting fruit in radical LCHF approaches, because it has too many carbs, doesn't make much sense to me either.
So if eating-to-the-meter leads you to reduce carbs, that's fine, so long as you replace them with fats & proteins mainly from plant sources. At the moment I do about 150g carbs per day, and maybe 75g fats, plus (crucially?) 30g+ fibre, all mainly from not-very-processed plant sources plus some fish and chicken. This places me well outside what's normally thought of as LCHF and also low-fat vegan, but for the moment it seems to be working fine.
Obviously, that's just me and I wouldn't dream of laying down the law for anybody else. Unless somebody offered me a whole bunch of money for a miracle diet book & I got to go on TV
🙂 But really the book title would have to be something like "Dr Eddy's Miracle Mainstream Endorsed By the Great Majority of Credible Nutrition Experts Diet" so probably not a best-seller prospect.
Currently my provisional nutrition guru is David Katz
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-l...p-faclm-4798667/detail/recent-activity/posts/ (as a policy, my gurus are always provisional gurus!) Dead centre in the mainstream, respectful of vegans in general, advocate of Mediterranean and similar mainly plant-based, minimally processed, everything-in-moderation approaches.
He co-authored a review which I've found very helpful:
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032013-182351
There have been no rigorous, long-term studies comparing contenders for best diet laurels using methodology that precludes bias and confounding, and for many reasons such studies are unlikely. In the absence of such direct comparisons, claims for the established superiority of any one specific diet over others are exaggerated. The weight of evidence strongly supports a theme of healthful eating while allowing for variations on that theme. A diet of minimally processed foods close to nature, predominantly plants, is decisively associated with health promotion and disease prevention and is consistent with the salient components of seemingly distinct dietary approaches. Efforts to improve public health through diet are forestalled not for want of knowledge about the optimal feeding of Homo sapiens but for distractions associated with exaggerated claims, and our failure to convert what we reliably know into what we routinely do.
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The aggregation of evidence in support of (a) diets comprising preferentially minimally processed foods direct from nature and food made up of such ingredients, (b) diets comprising mostly plants, and (c) diets in which animal foods are themselves the products, directly or ultimately, of pure plant foods—the composition of animal flesh and milk is as much influenced by diet as we are (31)—is noteworthy for its breadth, depth, diversity of methods, and consistency of findings. The case that we should, indeed, eat true food, mostly plants, is all but incontrovertible. Perhaps fortuitously, this same dietary theme offers considerable advantages to other species, the environment around us, and even the ecology within us (136).
An important aspect of this message is that the same basic dietary pattern exerts favorable influences across a wide spectrum of health conditions. The notions that some combination of foods or nutrients is most important to the prevention and management of diabetes whereas another is most important to cardiovascular disease never made much sense and was very impractical: Given that people with diabetes are at heightened risk of cardiovascular disease, which should they choose?
