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This thread is great. Lots of great info. I'm still going to eat my almost completely vegan diet. Mainly because I tend to take what my Dr., who's on a national board for cardio research, and my business partners cardiologist, say, over what some guys on a message board say. Having said that, I don't disagree with the animal protein thing completely either. I'm the huntingest MFer you've ever met, and I'll eat some venison or fish once or twice a week. I don't post studies and research to back up my dietary preferences because, as Silock did with my "the china study" claims, pretty much all research can be shot full of holes. I've got my doctorate. I know studies. There hasn't ever been the perfect study, and if you google one study, you can google another that contradicts it. That how it is.
What I do rather, is to base how I eat on simple small facts of nutritional research that aren't in question. Things like refined carbs being inflammatory in their very nature. Things like certain fats, vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients, being more readily absorbed when in combination with each other. In other words, whole foods and the whole foods movement. And yes, it does work for me. I dropped 13 lbs two years ago with no other changes aside from how I ate, and I thought I ate pretty healthy before that. I just started hitting the gym again two weeks ago and have started incorporating weights back into my routine for the first time in years. All I did for the past 8 years or so was lots of pushups, crunches, and lunges.
Basically, I believe that if you have a diet that works for you, and you follow it because it works for you, then you are better off that you would be if you fell in and out of diets because they simply weren't for you long term.
Those of you who are here lifting for size, how often do you go to the gym? Do you do cardio specific workouts that don't involve weights? Just curious.
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