Ask Paul: December 15 (Premium)

Thanks, as always, to everyone who chimed in with some questions this week.

Before diving in, a quick note.

It is not surprising to me there were some questions about my recent post, Health Hacking: Diet and Nutrition. This is a big and controversial topic, I know. And I can tell you that I struggled to even write it for a number of reasons. The science is sound, but it goes against the conventional wisdom, which is incorrect, but seared into our collective minds: Eggs are bad! Orange juice is good! And so on. Plus, we've all been victims of various fad diets, and some will believe that this is just the latest. And worst of all, I am absolutely not qualified to speak/write intelligently on this topic. I have no founding in science, medicine, or nutrition. The reasons for my reticence are many and obvious.

So why bother? Because this is important. Because many of you, like me, sit on your asses in front of a PC all day long, every day, and don't move around enough and don't eat properly. What I can do is tell you what I've done, and what I'm doing, and why. I can point to the science and recommend---as I do strongly---that you read and understand it. I suspect that many of you will be shocked, as I was years ago, to discover the truth.

But there will always be questions and doubters. And I knew going in that I would leave things out, not on purpose, but because this is so big and it's hard to get it all out. So there will be follow-ups, especially about food. But also things I should have added and just forgot. Fortunately, we can address some of those topics here for starters.
Diet and nutrition
MattHewitt asks:
My question relates to the nutrition article you posted earlier this week. Is your whole family all-in on this? If not, is it difficult being the odd man out? I am interested, but I feel like it would be difficult to have to prepare separate meals every night because so much of what we eat has some type of carbohydrate in it and to completely omit it would be omitting a majority of the meal.

If your wife is low carb/no carb as well, does this have any effect on her participating in races or her training? (I seem to remember her being a runner.)

Feel free to ignore if it's too personal.
It's not too personal, but thanks. As noted, this is important. I will be transparent on this topic for this reason. And I'll try to be brief.

When the kids were growing up, we made a point to eat dinner at the table every night, together. But my son has been in college for over a year, and sometime right around the time that started---say, August 2016---my wife and I actually had a conversation about how this wasn't going to work anymore. So we no longer do that.

My daughter, who is now 16, is a vegetarian, and she has been for about two years. When she first started down this path, I practically begged her to consider being a pescatarian instead, meaning that she would basically be a vegetarian who also ate fish. Note th...

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