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You ate pizza, pasta, garlic knots, empanadas, redbull and more pizza and blame carbs for your bloating?

Starch and fat, starch and fat, starch and fat, sugar and carbonation, starch and fat... Jesus. Cut out a lot of the fat, add some lean protein and a lot of soluble and insoluble fiber and he might feel better. I’m not shocked though, when I’ve spoken to friends who jumped on the “bad gluten” train I hear similar stories.

My conclusion though, is whatever gets people to eat a bit less and a bit more varied diet is worth it. If they have to believe in spurious causality and it gets them to binge less on garbage, that’s still a win.

Yep, exactly. The best diet is the one you will stick to. Everything else is secondary. If it's low carb or vegan or paleo or mediterranean great. If it's the Twinkie diet, not as great but whatever. Penn lost a ton of weight on the potato diet starter phase of his diet.

Personally, I lost 50 lbs through a combination of exercise plus homemade vegetable/fruit juice replacement of two meals --which would be high carb. Some people would not be able to deal with that so it wouldn't work for them.

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