To Natway: Undereating???

When in this country over-eating has been more the norm? 

Ok, so let's concede that one can overeat and still be malnourished, but I promise you that was not the case with me.   I became interested in good nutrition at a young age but I was underweight until I turned 18, didn't eat much then but I was very healthy though.   I began having some problems dealing with stress when I was in my late 20s and I began having some problems with my weight after I had kids, a time when I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, a disorder related to the adrenals and/or the liver.   However, I developed AF in my late 40s after over 10 years of being an overworked SINGLE MOM.  When I finally "caved",  my 2 children were a couple of lazy teenagers (with an absent father and no other family around to help) who hardly ever helped around the house,  I was going to school 6 hours/day 5 days/week, worked 6 more hours 5 or 6 days/week, took care of most of the house chores, shopping, paying the bills, supervising homework, etc.  That was an awfully huge load for someone like me.   ALL THAT is what did me in, and you know what that's called???    STRESS, STRESS AND MORE STRESS!   As a result of that my thyroid slowed down, I'm sure I was hypo long before I was diagnosed because of the insidious weight gain, which resulted in me gaining more weight (was about 25 lbs. over by then, but anyone knows that stress will cause weight gain) and now only a low-carb or carb-cycling diet (also gluten-free and preferably dairy-free) is what works for me for losing weight.  In fact, eating too many carbs makes me feel more sluggish and depressed.

But this is NOT new at all, in the 80s there was Nathan Pritikin preaching a very low-fat diet, and in the 90s we had Susan Powter who came yelling "Fat makes you fat!", she said you could eat all the carbs you wanted as long as you used very little fat and did lots of aerobic exercise.  But time has proven that very low-fat diets are very unhealthy plus people age quickly on them, with lots of wrinkles.  Oh sure, on all of those crazy plans some people have lost weight and maybe even kept it but they've failed FOR THE MAJORITY!   There are countless ways to manipulate the 3 basic food groups and there will always be some who lose with each "new" discovery, but that's simply because we're ALL DIFFERENT, but the truth is that there's no "ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL".  

I'm imagining that perhaps you are still young and believe that the testimonials you have seen are "it" for everybody but I have news for you, time will tell you differently, just wait until you are my age (60) to see if you still feel the same.  So please, don't be so dogmatic about what you believe, I promise you that unless you're a very close-minded and/or stubborn person in a few more years you may believe something else.

Anyway, eating 4,000 calories a day is nothing but a glorified form of gluttony and I can see why some would defend that...  And the reason for having to eat that much is because a diet so low in complete protein and fats, which are so needed to repair our bodies, cannot satisfy, the person has to keep eating ALL DAY in order to stave off the hunger that would surface if they let any significant amount of time go by... and I ask... is that any way to live, still always stuffing something in your mouth???  Not for me, thank you very much!  Btw, I also have Candida, which I believe you call a myth...   But never mind, I wouldn't want to argue with someone like you on that, I know what I know and you probably just need time to learn more.