FluffyMcDeath wrote:
Eat a plate of pasta and say carbs are slow burners!! Starches are partly lysed to glucose etc before you even finish chewing.
Nobody denies that the body turns these into sugar, but it does it slowly enough for low to medium 'grade' diabetics to produce enough insulin over time. Denied fat, carbs, and sugar, what do people actually have to eat? You can't survive on protein alone, considering that you're supposed to do a lot of exercise to get the tired out insulin glands running at all. And even if you could, the ketone biproducts of continuous protein digestion are almost as nasty as methanol.
As for formic acid, like any poisons it depends where it is and how much of it there is. Formic acid produced by digestion doesn't seem to be a problem, or we'd soon die. Drinking alcohol in large quantities produces similar quantities of acetaldehyde and acetic acid, chemically similar products. Possibly formic acid and formaldehyde produced in the liver never gets to the blood, where it can attack the CNS and small blood vessels.
