Eliminating Strategic Calories Has Odious Aftereffects.  -- IE, if you eliminate the foods your body needs for health (Strategic Calories), you suffer odious (harmful) aftereffects -- You get UGLY!

What does beauty mean to you.  A pleasing outer state?  A pleasing inner State? Try having any pleasing state at all (inner or outer), if your diet lacks the essential nutrients that create health.

You need a strategy to maintain basic physical health, or your beauty and life suffer.   This becomes especially important as you age.

There are 3 macronutrients (major nutrients found in the diet):

1) Protein

2) Fats

3) Carbohydrates

Guess which of these three have DRIs (Dietary Reference Intakes) essential for human health listed by the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) of the United States and Canada?

An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal body functioning that either cannot be synthesized by the body at all, or cannot be synthesized in amounts adequate for good health, and thus must be obtained from a dietary source. Yep.  Proteins (amino acides) and fats (fatty acids) are essential.  Carbohydrates are NOT listed as esssential. 

If you selected PROTEINS and FATS, then you are correct!  Carbohydrates are basically chains of sugar molecules in the form of sugar and starches.  They provide energy, which if supplied in excess results in your getting fatter and FATTER and FATTER. 

So watch out for too many carbohydrates (sugary foods, starchy foods)!

Note:  The amount of essential protein needed (in grams) for human health is about 20 times higher than fats.  If you eat protein from lean meat, lean poultry, fish, etc -- then you are guaranteed to get your essential nutrients, all at the same time.  This is the strategy used by early paleolithic man, before modern agriculture produced sugary and starchy foods.

The body and brain of man developed by eating the essential foods needed for a healthy body and brain.  And it was NOT carbohydrates that constituted the healthful food that early mankind needed to develop his body and brain. 

Suggestion:  Try reducing sugary and starchy foods, and eliminate fatty foods, while eating lean meats, poultry, and fish.  Non-starchy vegetables low in calories (and rich in fiber too) are fine.  Such a strategy is consistent with maintaining a healthful (and pleasing) body weight!