The ketogenic diet, or keto diet, is a strict diet that involves eating foods that are low in carbohydrates and high in fat. The carnivore diet is a restrictive diet that consists of only animal products and excludes all fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, seeds, and nuts.
First of all, the diet that is low in carbs is low in the fuel that runs the body. The body works through carbs as a *protective* reaction to blood glucose that is elevated high above normal levels. A basic thought on the big three is of your daily caloric intake, 60% should come from carbs, 15% from fat, and 25% from protein.
But that also means a balanced diet that creates intake of the different needs of the body like vitamins, iron... You don’t feed the body by taking away nutrients. Both the diets you mentioned do that as a major part of their selling point.
But that doesn’t mean you should just...eat. Eat right and balance that with calorie control. Healthy people use the Harris Bendict scale for measurement because it takes into consideration your lifestyle that you actually have. It doesn’t create a false lifestyle to react to your changed intake.
Now, as for diabetes, in its action it is very inconsistent and troublesome because of how it works. There is so much varients in everyday situations that it can be a crapshoot. The illness is a battle everyday for the rest of your life. I equate it to cancer. How many people go into remission and down the road have recurrence?
Diabetes is not a triggered illness. It is not caused just by being overweight or eat too much of a wrong food. If that was the case I would never have gotten it diagnosed as when I was told I was 6’ 1”, 190, running 5 miles a day and playing competitive sports like racquetball and handball as an amatuer. (Military fitness)
Weight and fitness is a part of the control of it but age, injuries, other illnesses, and lifestyle changes are also just a part of it. Another part of the illness is that type 2 diabetes has a stronger link to family history and lineage than type 1, and studies of twins have shown that genetics play a very strong role in the development of type 2 diabetes. (ADA).
So diet is part of the equation in many cases. But a diet is what you consume, not a name for a directed amount of what nutients you require. And the keto or carnivore may be good diets for some people depending on what they need. The keto diet helps reduce seizures in pediatric patients with epilepsy. Endurance athletes and body builders also use it to scrap fat in short timeframes. But if they do not have the fat tissue they need they cannot finish many races as the fuel goes out. Balance and planning of consumption is what is needed for the body. Not a diet to lose weight for an illness.
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