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I just finished a type of low-carb (though non-ketogenic) diet, so I know my terms, thanks.

Again, nothing you're saying makes sense. You said you drank nothing but low-calorie/high-carb veg juice for 2 weeks, but now you say that you didn't drink much of it? So where did your calories come from? Or did you just plain starve yourself with 300 calories worth of veg juice a day?

If you're gonna play the nutritionist and offer people advice, expect to get called out on things that don't make sense.




It was a juice fast (as opposed to a pure water fast), not a juice diet -- calories are restricted, and energy comes, in part, from the ketone bodies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone_bodies).

And I am not trying to "play the nutritionist" -- I am simply drawing attention to a possible relationship between Lustig's research on "sugar toxicity", the research relating to the effects sugar has on ADHD, and the effects the fast had on my ADD, after my glycogen stores had been depleted.




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