Yes, this is true. Is a diet of only protein and fat as healthy as one that includes carobohydrates?
Your body has an indispensable need for glucose/fructose for DNA synthesis and repair and for brain metabolism. If you have no carbohydrates whatsoever in your diet, you can use certain amino acids and other products of the catabolism of fats and proteins to produce glucose through
gluconeogenesis.
Yes, I know most of the metabolic pathways and how they work, I teach biochemistry in college. My question is what are the long term health effects of a no carb diet (eg heart disease). There seems to be a disagreement among researchers as to the health consequences of a no carb diet. I was wondering what your opinion was on this subject.