• doggle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What about protein? There’s a whole other macro you can use to make up for calories with if you cut out carbs. Eating near exclusively protein probably isn’t good for you, but you won’t starve. From what I’ve seen there can even be a lot of advantages to eating a little more protein, especially if you’re doing some strength training.

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      1 year ago

      Protein is vital and is available on any kind of diet. Many vegetables, all meats, all fungi

      Humans can either live on carbs or live on fats, in both cases we must also eat protein

      Humans cannot (though cats can) live on protein, look up rabbit starvation. You will starve if you eat only protein, where eating only fat or only glucose will kill you much more slowly with vitamin deficiencies