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Old Mon, May-10-04, 08:23
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Plan: TSP/PPLP/low-cal/My own
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Originally Posted by bvtaylor
Actually supplementation is important regardless of eating plan (weight loss diet or not) mostly because our food sources, in some case even natural ones, are so nutritionally depleted by over-farming and processing that it is hard to truly get the level of nutrition that our body needs, even from eating mostly whole foods--which is the long term goal of Atkins at least.

You're right. I should have said in an ideal world we wouldn't need to supplement at maintenance levels of carbs.
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