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by syntaxless 576 days ago
> In the past people with diabetes tried to live on a completely carb free diet - but you cannot do that for long.

What is “long?” There are people living years on no carbs at all.

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Who is living years without any carbs?
The Inuit, for starters. Oh, and me.
So far as I can tell, Inuit get about 15–20% of their calories from carbohydrates, because of all the glycogen from the raw meat they consume.

But I am only looking at summaries outside a bunch of paywalls, so I can't confirm the quotes on the wikipedia page.

People on zero carb and carnivore diets.