Thanks for asking! but unfortunately I haven't written anything up about it, but informally I can share that it's really benefited our health and even finances. Eating beans and rice every day and not eating out is very cheap. I buy most of our food in bulk online or from local farms - e.g. just got 50kg of chickpeas in the mail and 20kg of string beans from a farm. We also avoid eating oil for health reasons
The minimum daily intake of carbs for a human to remain healthy is zero. The minimum daily intake of oil is in fact, not zero, as oils are required for the basic functioning of a human.
But minimum daily intake of fiber, for humans to remain healthy, is not zero.
Vegetables, especially if you eat them in amounts that sustain your weight, have enough omega essential fatty acids to last you a lifetime.
Legumes do have fat in them.
If you eat 2000kcal of red lentils, there's more than enough protein and fat content, almost meets your omega-3 essential fatty acid requirement. Nothing stops you from adding different fattier vegetables.
Here's a study on historical data, here are some statements:
"Arteriosclerosis and degeneration of the myocardium are quite common conditions among the Greenlander" -- study from 1940
IMO, best evidence ever is on Maasai people, where they find massive amounts of atherosclerosis in the blood vessels of young people and there are multiple cases where young people die of atherosclerosis. Only thing that makes Maasai survive is that they start with this kind of diet at early age, their blood vessels get extra wide and elastic and can withstand the hardening effects of atherosclerosis.
Fiberless diet is a death certificate for the modern western man if one's not on it from birth.
My point was that there's nothing wrong with pressed plant oils (coconut, olive, etc). If you're going to focus on cutting the unnecessary, that's bulk carbs.
Haha, bulk carbs unnecessary? I'm not sure what you mean - we eat nothing processed - only whole beans, grains, fruits, nuts, seeds. Nothing unnecessary to cut out
We don't avoid fat - I mention in another comment about eating nuts, seeds, avocados, durian, egg fruit etc. And avoiding meat is no longer controversial in terms of health - with a little planning it's not difficult to be healthy.
Extra virgin olive oil is very healthy, unless you have some digestive issue with it that I haven't heard so far. Apart from frying (which you don't do), you don't need much more in your kitchen
My wife gets extreme inflammation in the blood and joints from consuming oil (even EVOO yes). It isn't /from/ the oil per se But complicates her condition.
