Fact is there aren't any essential carbohydrates.
There are essential fats and there are essential protiens.. ones our body can't produce, but not one essential carbohydrate.
That being said, while the experiment was very interesting and abuot the same sort of diet the eskimoes and the greenlanders were eating and being healthy on, there are all sort of factors that really have't been studied as of yet.
Such as all the previous notes about all the people on this board with various levels of health.
Is the addition of carbs for some people "magic" or would they have had the same result on the lower carbs?
Are those same people perhaps making their diet alot of convience low carb foods that I am NOT convinced are good for you, or are they eating "real" foods.
Ones you can in theory hunt, pick ,gather ect.
Is there a point "healing' your body has to do after years of yo yo dieting doing it the count all those calories and foods way??
I am counting on the last part. But I still don't know all this for sure.
What I do know is that at least right now I feel good.
In fact the only time I have any discomfort at all is during a chocolate binge ( believe me.. they don't even begin to equal what I used to do! .but it still feels funny after being so "good")
Lots of rambling I know.
But.. no thanks again.. I am not doing some plan where I have to count my calories or other such activities.
Poofie