“Not really an issue if you exercise enough to burn it off as glycogen.”
That betrays a lack of understanding of metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Any person who is experiencing metabolic syndrome and diabetes cannot exercise enough to prevent progressive weight gain and increasing levels of blood sugar. Among this series of videos you will find a medical doctor who is a marathon sports competitor, medical researcher,sports medicine expert, suffered metabolic syndrome, and addresses the medical problem with ketogenic diet. The cause of this inability to burn fat is the elevated insulin levels which are caused in turn by the elevated levels of blood glucose.
I do. I can and do eat substantial quantities of meat (keeping an eye on total calories all the while) while shredding bodyfat and achieving sub 10% levels. Yet still maintaining most of my muscle gains. All the proof I need is right there in the mirror. And I'm 58 years old.