Posted on 01/02/2020 11:12:10 AM PST by BobL
A recent survey of registered dietitians named the low-carbohydrate keto diet yet again as the most popular diet in the United States. Powering this diet is fat, and loads of it — all the way up to a hefty 90 percent of one’s daily calories.
Its fans (and marketers) feed social media with before and after photos, crediting the diet for life-altering weight loss or other effects. They swirl butter into their coffee, load up on cheese, and eat lonely burgers without its bestie, the bun. Staples like whole grains, legumes, fruit and starchy vegetables are being largely pushed off the plate as devotees strive for ketosis — when the body begins to burn fat instead of glucose as its primary energy source.
“America is in a state of carbophobia,” said Whitney Linsenmeyer, a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
The diet is hailed for dropping pounds, burning more calories, reducing hunger, managing diabetes, treating drug resistant epilepsy, improving blood pressure, and cholesterol, as well as triglycerides, the major storage form of fat in the body. People have reported improved concentration, too. “We see pretty dramatic benefits,” said Dr. William Yancy, director of the Duke Diet and Fitness Center.
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“I usually catch all of the low carb posts but I would like to be on your ping list please.”
You got it!
I’m a Keto Fan. BUT ALSO with Intermittent Fasting.
Keto-IF involves a keto diet with 1-3 days a week of limiting calories to under 600. This method reduces IGF-1, resolves Type2 Diabetes, improves all blood labs including total cholesterol, etc etc etc.
Other methods involve fasting for 15-18 hours a day and eating Keto or regular food in just a 6-8 hour window per day.
Still OTHER methods involve doing keto for 5-6 days a week and eating regular food 1-2 days.
Limiting carbs and the amount of time your body is involved in processing food is really good for a body - I am convinced.
Look up “autophagy” - the process where your body’s ability to dispose of old cells and produce new, healthy ones is unhampered by digestion, which uses more energy and resources than anything else in a body.
But yes - Keto is great for weight loss, and improved energy and focus.
My habit for calling up cynicism is who is invested in what?
Veges get chemically messed with by corporations. Beef and foul have to be sorted, to avoid Hormones and other injections and then you’re never quite sure you free of chems and hormones.
People are fainting over glutin, salt, etc., etc., and it is largely ridiculous, unless.you.are.diagonosed with need to avoid it.
Give it a few years and it’s all reversed.
Eat what we want, just shut our pie hole down and move around doing something else besides gobbing Excess in it.
No one should eat before they are hungry for 20 minutes, or so. Abstaining is good. Fasting is ancient and thought to be healthy.
I think there is some legitimate concerns regarding the replacement of carbs with protein...which, of course, is NOT supposed to be done on Keto (carbs have to be replaced with fat) - so it’s possible that doctors see the results of high-protein diets, and incorrectly apply that to the Keto diet. That could be the case with the cardiologist.
It does take a certain level of understanding to effectively (and safely) go low carb, and a lifestyle change - such as NOT cutting off the fat from the steak you’re about to eat, and not being afraid to use tons of butter!
But cardiologists still say that fat is the problem and write a script for a statin.
Sometimes we need to think independently and question the current belief systems.
I have dramatically improved my health, losing 120 lbs in 2 years on Keto. My doc is amazed and very impressed with the improvements in my bloodwork.
It takes a long time for the latest research to get out of the university research to practicing physicians. Nutrition is not a cut and dried exact science and many of the old studies were very flawed, epidemiological, and not clinically based.
For example: One of the early studies on cholesterol used rabbits. The results were that rabbits developed severe atherosclerosis when fed a high cholesterol diet.
Can you see the huge error/false assumption in that study, and why it should have been laughed off the stage, instead of being modifying our diet?
I wonder how many will read this and think outside of the box, and post the gigantic error. Will check in later to see.
Want to know how to lose weight, burn more calories than you consume.
Though that is true, if you earn your living flipping burgers it may not be possible, or you may want to live nicer than you do, so you need to make more money.
The analogy is a thin one, but the point is that there is more to it than just losing weight. It is also about being healthy. Yes, I know that you already know that, but I just want to emphasize it. I can cut myself down to 1400 calories a day and I’m going to lose weight. But if it’s all in Coke and Doritos, I’m not going to be very healthy.
I lost a lot of weight a couple of decades ago. My “go to” foods on that diet were oat bran, meat, spinach and potatoes. I didn’t touch anything bread-like until the diet was over and even then was very careful about portions. Personally, I think an all meat and vegetable diet is the most winning diet a person can have, but I have to have my bread from time to time. I love the stuff.
I should avoid seed oils now too? Sh!t.
...seed oils are the source for most of our dietary induced inflammation and endothelial damage
No more Crisco, back to Lard and Butter, works for me
Did you ask what exactly is heart harmful?
There is no such thing as an essential Carbohydrate, your body can produce them if need be.
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I get your point, but technically not correct.
Carbs are not essential, but also, your body doesn’t produce them. Your liver can metabolize both proteins and alcohol to create moderate amounts of blood glucose, but for the most part, ‘blood sugar’ is the result if carbohydrate intake... and whenever your blood sugar levels rise to any significant level, the subsequent insulin reaction causes your cells to convert the blood glucose into fat. That is the strange reason why sugar intake creates fat, but fat intake does not create fat. Insulin.
Many of us start dieting at the beginning of the year. Guilt from holiday feasting? Americans generally eat a crappy diet. our forefathers ate about 4 pounds of sugar per year on average. We are now up to 400 pounds according to something I read yesterday. There’s the problem. Keto is a way to retrain the body from a diet high in sugar, never mind the carbs. I don’t see it as a life style, more like an intervention. But us sugarholics need that sometimes.
Likewise re: ping list Bob.
Thanks for the ping. I’ve followed a ketogenic way of eating for nearly 6 years. Over 3 months ago, I dropped plants from diet (but for wine, coffee, tea, and occasional herbs/spices) just to see how things might differ for me.
So you’re saying gluconeogenesis isn’t really a thing?
Only as long as you’re on it. Eat a potato, gain a potato, when you fall off it.
Why and which ones?
Why and which ones?
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