A 44-year-old member asked:
How did people stay thin when they ate biscuit and sausage gravy, 2 eggs, milk, juice every morning?
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Dr. Vasu Brownanswered
Integrative Medicine 23 years experience
Yes plus: You can work it off. Still you need to process the fats - makes sure you take carnitine and Niacin - the first one will turn sugars into health HDL instead of triglycerides, Niacin will process bad cholesterol into bile instead of ldl.
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Thank you, Dr. Brown, for the helpful information.
Jun 5, 2012
A Verified Doctoranswered
Family Medicine 40 years experience
Hi fat/cal meals: People ate huge, high-fat, high protein meals when they did heavy physical labor (farming, construction, digging ditches, etc); they needed those calories to sustain them through the day; their heavy physical activity burned off those calories; so they remained thin. Physical workers still eat > 2000 calories a day to maintain strength yet stay slim. Increased activity burns off calories.
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