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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Thanks for your reply, whitney69, but, with all due respect, I really think you ought to take a look at the initial youtube video this thread is based on. (Link
right here.)
Dr. Ken Berry nade that video to announce the new "American Diabetes Society" organization, which will be in direct opposition to the old, corrupt "American Diabetes Association" (ADA).
In his video, Dr. Berry illustrates how the corrupt ADA gives horrendous, harmful advice to diabetics, by his sharing just one of the recipes they recommend on their web site for diabetics, which is loaded with sugar and other carbs. He asserts that the reason they do that is they do NOT want diabetics to get better naturally through diet and lifestyle changes, but, rather, the ADA wants them to have to take expensive medications for the rest of their life. Big Food makes a fortune selling all their junk processed "foods" which are loaded with all kinds of unhealthy crap, and Big Pharma makes a fortune selling all their medications, which they also want diabetics to take all their lives. Big Food and Big Pharma give huge "donations" (bribes) to the corrupt ADA, so that the ADA will continue to dispense their worthless, harmful advice to diabetics.
Regarding body energy sources, do you think carnivore Dr. Shawn Baker is low in energy? He is a big power lifter, and a distance runner, and he broke the record in some form of lifting, and another record in another sport (Google it for details.) I don't think anyone would say that Dr. Baker is low in energy. The same holds true for high energy doctors, Ken Berry and Anthony Chaffee.
Dr. Shawn Baker
Big Food, Big Pharma, the ADA, and our friendly government officials, have been lying to us about these things for a long, long time. Their obvious motive is the moolah. Of course you can continue to believe whatever you want, but the truth is something completely different from what they have all been telling us.
Diabetics can keep their blood sugar numbers in the normal healthy range by taking a bunch of expensive meds for the rest of their life, or they can achieve that same result by simple dietary changes alone. Diabetics have to make that choice for themselves. Take a look at this video for some more insight on this.
"Why Reducing Carbs is the Key to a Healthier Life..." (Dr. Anthony Chaffee)