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To: logi_cal869
lower-carbohydrate diets can be linked to either higher or lower mortality risk

That's just funny right there. What you have is a bunch of correlations with no effort at all put into determining causation. As a result what you get is the usual voodoo science that only amounts to dark, unsubstantiated warnings and appeals to authority.

All while accusing other people of confirmation bias.

Once you recognize the difference between someone who actually explains how the body works, why some food causes problems, why other food is better vs the "there be monsters here" and "everything we tell you is double plus good for you", once someone sees that they come to the understanding that people like you are just comical manipulators.

Your voodoo is gone because people can experience for themselves what good health feels like. When you are no longer seeing the doctor every couple of months for mysterious problems he can't solve, but instead he calls you saying it's time for your check up, which goes extremely well.

When you do go in for those checkups, you walk past people who are overweight and miserable who drag themselves along in obvious pain. All because they are in thrall to people like you whose diet and medical advice has never worked. That has caused an epidemic of obesity and diabetes over the last fifty years, yet you cling to the same broken advice because what is important to you is your own self importance. If you could muster enough humility to grasp how little you really know you might actually learn something.

60 posted on 08/30/2024 3:43:01 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: hopespringseternal

...and right back to paragraph 1.

- fini -


61 posted on 08/30/2024 5:21:17 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: hopespringseternal; All
For the record - you need not reply, this is for others - the out of context quote below

...lower-carbohydrate diets can be linked to either higher or lower mortality risk...
is part of the paragraph below as highlighted in bold:

Longer-term effects can include decreased bone mineral density, nephrolithiasis, cardiomyopathy, anemia, and neuropathy of the optic nerve (82, 121). Ketogenic diets have low long-term tolerability, and are not sustainable for many individuals (48, 49). Diets low in carbohydrate have also been associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality (122), although recent data suggest that lower-carbohydrate diets can be linked to either higher or lower mortality risk, depending on the quality of the carbohydrate they contain and whether they rely more on animal protein and saturated fat or plant protein and unsaturated fat, respectively (123).
Again, for others reading this, there are 123 references backing up this study, one of several with similar conclusions available to those willing to be scientific.

Ketogenic Diets and Chronic Disease: Weighing the Benefits Against the Risks

64 posted on 08/30/2024 8:50:01 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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