Posted on 09/04/2019 2:10:56 PM PDT by BobL
KETO diet methods are becoming increasingly more popular among those looking to lose weight. However, a nutritionist has warned that dieters should avoid the plan long term.
Low carb diets have been popular for some time among those who want to lose weight fast.
The keto diet is a particularly high fat version.
However, an expert has warned that the diet may not be safe longterm.
Although, many swear by this method to help them drop the pounds. The keto diet, or ketogenic diet, is a low-carb diet plan.
Dieters may only eat low carb foods, such as lean meat and dairy. The idea of the diet is to put the body into a state of ketosis.
This is an alternative metabolic rate in which the body burns fat instead of carbohydrates to survive.
However, the diet was not originally used for weight loss. In fact, it was used as a cure for epilepsy.
Hebe Mills, who is an Associate Nutritionist, told Express.co.uk: "The Ketogenic diet has been used since the 1920s as a medical therapy diet for epilepsy patients that do not respond to anti-epilepsy drugs (AEDs) to aid seizure control."
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
In any case, I post, you guys can take what you want from it.
(the text is kind of scattered around in UK tabloid style, so it doesn't flow too well. Also, even though it's a current article, I don't want to flood the new category with these types of articles, hence General/Chat)
LOW CARB / KETO PING!!!
Just hit the 50 persons mark! Incredible, and love the success stories. Feel free to also share bad things, if they have happened to you. So far, no bad stories, other than ones warning us either in articles like this, or sometimes people relating experiences of others they know - but not first-hand.
[p.s., anyone wanting to join, or leave, my Low-Carb ping list, just let me know, privately or publicly]
"Hi, I’m Hebe, Associate Nutritionist, London dweller and full-time sun seeker."
https://hebemillsnutrition.weebly.com/about.html
Here’s a similar story from the same publication. The lady lost nearly 4 stones (I get a kick out of the UK...stones are 14 lbs, so about 50 lbs.). The “after” picture shows a rally good-looking person!
The Government said so, so they must be right. It’s there on the innerwebs!?!
“As a general rule of thumb, the healthiest way to eat during mealtimes is through following the ‘Eat Well Guide,’ which is available on the NHS website and suggests 1/3 of our daily intake should be fruit and veg, 1/3 carbohydrates and just under a third beans, pulses, eggs, meat and dairy.”
https://hebemillsnutrition.weebly.com/blog
Big Food and Big Pharma aren’t going to give up without a fight.
Brought my A1C from my type 2 diagnosis last year from 7.8 to 5.6 in six months along with dropping almost 30 pounds. My VA Dr was pleased.
Horseshit. I’ve been doing keto for 3 years. Lost 25 pounds and “cured” my diabetes.
The establishment is mad that people are taking their health into their own hands instead of being fleeced by “experts”.
Please add me to your low carb ping list. I’m down 35 lbs. since March. Thanks.
The Magic Pill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6duhSjYyj0k
I had to look up “Associate Nutritionist”. Apparently she’s a student.
Anyway, people can stay on keto diets (or low carb in general) forever. The diet was first discovered by an anthropologist working with the Eskimos.
“Yeah, I’ll take advice from a pre-skin-cancer patient”
LOL - she’s intolerant to Gluten, meaning that if she stays off Gluten (i.e., today’s modified wheat strains), she’s halfway towards Keto, but she doesn’t even know it.
(she, Hebe, is the ‘nutritionist’ in the article)
I agree it was hard to read.
What the article never touched on, was the fact that huge numbers of people around the world are basically subsisting on carbohydrate almost exclusively and it always leads to obesity, insulin resistance, inflammation, diabetes, heart disease, etc.
It is true the human body prefers to “burn” glucose instead of fat, but that’s what makes the Keto dieting effective. It more quickly forces the body to use up its glycogen stores and start to metabolize fat cells more rapidly. There is no other way to burn excess fat stores. Excess glucose is ever and always turned into fat and stored. It is not “natural” to eat a high carb diet, so it’s ironic for her to talk about what is “healthy”. LOL
It isn’t meant to be a forever diet, just one to use until you have reached a healthy weight.
Done deal!
There is no essential Carbohydrate, your body can produce the energy.
There are essential proteins and fats that you must get from your diet.
For Keto, the key is making sure you get the nutrients, you’ll need to eat some non-starchy vegetables and fruits (Avocado is a fruit) to get those nutrients, but you shouldn’t go over 20 grams of carbs to get those nutrients.
Congrats!!
This is what you get when “experts” are paid to just say something and aren’t required to make logical arguments or provide any sort of proof.
“Anyway, people can stay on keto diets (or low carb in general) forever. The diet was first discovered by an anthropologist working with the Eskimos.”
Eskimos lived it their entire lives and were perfectly healthy, at least regarding their weights and diabetes. In fact, it was only after they were ‘collectivized’ by the Canadian government (in particular) into towns, and given the ‘proper’ nutrition, did they get sick as hell.
If you’re thinking of the same (white) explorer that I’m thinking of, he didn’t just ‘work with’ Eskimos, HE LIVED IT for 10 friggen years, basically zero carbs, even less than one would do on Keto. Came back perfectly healthy.
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