Keto?

I know Keto may have worked for some, but to me it sounds like just another fad diet. Keto severely slashes carbs...sometimes to fewer than 100g/day; that's not healthy nor sustainable.

Fads don't last 40 years. Less than 100 g of carbs per day is perfectly sustainable, and is perfectly healthy.

Meh, that may be. Still, 100g of carbs is equal to roughly 3 bananas. Cutting carbs that much will make you feel tired/moody all the time.

I think the whole "low carb lifestyle" has been completely over-hyped.

I think you may be one of those people who are not carbohydrate intolerant or insulin resistant and you should be glad. But, until you open your mind to the reality that there are many people out there with widely varying degrees of both issues, you will never understand that for us it is not over-hyped, but under-hyped. There are many people who would benefit metabolically from a low carb or keto diet and they never try it because people like you with limited and biased information tell them it is unhealthy and over-hyped. The fact that many in the medical field are just as uninformed as you doesn't change the fact that this way of eating works for many people and it is more healthy than feeding ourselves with foods we are unable to properly process. Do a little research on the side effects of uncontrolled Diabetes and tell me those are healthy for me.

Claiming that everyone else, including medical professionals, are somehow "uninformed" is a dead giveaway to a fad diet.

I'm not saying that eating a ton of carbs, or eating fake carbs, is okay, I'm just saying that carbs have somehow become the enemy in today's fad diet environment; however, when in eaten as part of an overall healthy lifestyle...carbs are essential.

And how many years did the medical establishment tell us that eating margarine was more healthy for us before they finally accepted the fact that trans fats are bad for people?

I'm not saying "everyone" is misinformed. There are a lot of people out there who have done the research and read the arguments in favor of and against low carb or ketogenic diets. Have you? I doubt it. You stated yourself in this very post that the limited research you did led you to believe this was an all bacon diet and therefore bad and that perhaps that is not the case. By your own admission, you know very little about a ketogenic diet, but yet here you are telling us how unhealthy it is. Please, go read a book or ten about low carb/ketogenic diets and how they function in a person with carbohydrate intolerance and insulin resistance and then come back and tell me how I should eat the same "healthy" high carb diet that has been slowly killing me for the past 25 years.

I think the whole "low carb lifestyle" has been completely over-hyped.

I think you may be one of those people who are not carbohydrate intolerant or insulin resistant and you should be glad. But, until you open your mind to the reality that there are many people out there with widely varying degrees of both issues, you will never understand that for us it is not over-hyped, but under-hyped. There are many people who would benefit metabolically from a low carb or keto diet and they never try it because people like you with limited and biased information tell them it is unhealthy and over-hyped. The fact that many in the medical field are just as uninformed as you doesn't change the fact that this way of eating works for many people and it is more healthy than feeding ourselves with foods we are unable to properly process. Do a little research on the side effects of uncontrolled Diabetes and tell me those are healthy for me.

Claiming that everyone else, including medical professionals, are somehow "uninformed" is a dead giveaway to a fad diet.

I'm not saying that eating a ton of carbs, or eating fake carbs, is okay, I'm just saying that carbs have somehow become the enemy in today's fad diet environment; however, when in eaten as part of an overall healthy lifestyle...carbs are essential.

And how many years did the medical establishment tell us that eating margarine was more healthy for us before they finally accepted the fact that trans fats are bad for people?

I'm not saying "everyone" is misinformed. There are a lot of people out there who have done the research and read the arguments in favor of and against low carb or ketogenic diets. Have you? I doubt it. You stated yourself in this very post that the limited research you did led you to believe this was an all bacon diet and therefore bad and that perhaps that is not the case. By your own admission, you know very little about a ketogenic diet, but yet here you are telling us how unhealthy it is. Please, go read a book or ten about low carb/ketogenic diets and how they function in a person with carbohydrate intolerance and insulin resistance and then come back and tell me how I should eat the same "healthy" high carb diet that has been slowly killing me for the past 25 years.

Somehow this conversation morphed from Keto to low-carb fad diets. I was initially misinformed about Keto, but not about low-carb fad diets.

Regarding low-carb diets, I trust the Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/low-carb-diet/NU00279/NSECTIONGROUP=2

I think the whole "low carb lifestyle" has been completely over-hyped.

I think you may be one of those people who are not carbohydrate intolerant or insulin resistant and you should be glad. But, until you open your mind to the reality that there are many people out there with widely varying degrees of both issues, you will never understand that for us it is not over-hyped, but under-hyped. There are many people who would benefit metabolically from a low carb or keto diet and they never try it because people like you with limited and biased information tell them it is unhealthy and over-hyped. The fact that many in the medical field are just as uninformed as you doesn't change the fact that this way of eating works for many people and it is more healthy than feeding ourselves with foods we are unable to properly process. Do a little research on the side effects of uncontrolled Diabetes and tell me those are healthy for me.

Claiming that everyone else, including medical professionals, are somehow "uninformed" is a dead giveaway to a fad diet.

I'm not saying that eating a ton of carbs, or eating fake carbs, is okay, I'm just saying that carbs have somehow become the enemy in today's fad diet environment; however, when in eaten as part of an overall healthy lifestyle...carbs are essential.

And how many years did the medical establishment tell us that eating margarine was more healthy for us before they finally accepted the fact that trans fats are bad for people?

I'm not saying "everyone" is misinformed. There are a lot of people out there who have done the research and read the arguments in favor of and against low carb or ketogenic diets. Have you? I doubt it. You stated yourself in this very post that the limited research you did led you to believe this was an all bacon diet and therefore bad and that perhaps that is not the case. By your own admission, you know very little about a ketogenic diet, but yet here you are telling us how unhealthy it is. Please, go read a book or ten about low carb/ketogenic diets and how they function in a person with carbohydrate intolerance and insulin resistance and then come back and tell me how I should eat the same "healthy" high carb diet that has been slowly killing me for the past 25 years.

Somehow this conversation morphed from Keto to low-carb fad diets. I was initially misinformed about Keto, but not about low-carb fad diets.

Regarding low-carb diets, I trust the Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/low-carb-diet/NU00279/NSECTIONGROUP=2

Some of that article was pretty funny. "It's also possible that severely restricting carbohydrates to less than 20 grams a day can result in ketosis"
Ketosis is the entire point of the dietary approach. All of the "symptoms" listed are transient and ARE in fact the same symptoms of hypoglycemia (I'm sure the diabetics here can tell ya).

Now of course we know "fat doesn't make you fat", yet the mayoclinic is still advocating the "low fat" diets most people got fat on?

It's unfortunate, but the healthcare industry doesn't exactly turn a profit from healthy people.

I think the whole "low carb lifestyle" has been completely over-hyped.

I think you may be one of those people who are not carbohydrate intolerant or insulin resistant and you should be glad. But, until you open your mind to the reality that there are many people out there with widely varying degrees of both issues, you will never understand that for us it is not over-hyped, but under-hyped. There are many people who would benefit metabolically from a low carb or keto diet and they never try it because people like you with limited and biased information tell them it is unhealthy and over-hyped. The fact that many in the medical field are just as uninformed as you doesn't change the fact that this way of eating works for many people and it is more healthy than feeding ourselves with foods we are unable to properly process. Do a little research on the side effects of uncontrolled Diabetes and tell me those are healthy for me.

Claiming that everyone else, including medical professionals, are somehow "uninformed" is a dead giveaway to a fad diet.

I'm not saying that eating a ton of carbs, or eating fake carbs, is okay, I'm just saying that carbs have somehow become the enemy in today's fad diet environment; however, when in eaten as part of an overall healthy lifestyle...carbs are essential.

And how many years did the medical establishment tell us that eating margarine was more healthy for us before they finally accepted the fact that trans fats are bad for people?

I'm not saying "everyone" is misinformed. There are a lot of people out there who have done the research and read the arguments in favor of and against low carb or ketogenic diets. Have you? I doubt it. You stated yourself in this very post that the limited research you did led you to believe this was an all bacon diet and therefore bad and that perhaps that is not the case. By your own admission, you know very little about a ketogenic diet, but yet here you are telling us how unhealthy it is. Please, go read a book or ten about low carb/ketogenic diets and how they function in a person with carbohydrate intolerance and insulin resistance and then come back and tell me how I should eat the same "healthy" high carb diet that has been slowly killing me for the past 25 years.

Somehow this conversation morphed from Keto to low-carb fad diets. I was initially misinformed about Keto, but not about low-carb fad diets.

Regarding low-carb diets, I trust the Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/low-carb-diet/NU00279/NSECTIONGROUP=2

Some of that article was pretty funny. "It's also possible that severely restricting carbohydrates to less than 20 grams a day can result in ketosis"
Ketosis is the entire point of the dietary approach. All of the "symptoms" listed are transient and ARE in fact the same symptoms of hypoglycemia (I'm sure the diabetics here can tell ya).

Now of course we know "fat doesn't make you fat", yet the mayoclinic is still advocating the "low fat" diets most people got fat on?

It's unfortunate, but the healthcare industry doesn't exactly turn a profit from healthy people.

"It's also possible that severely restricting carbohydrates to less than 20 grams a day can result in ketosis. Ketosis occurs when you don't have enough sugar (glucose) for energy, so your body breaks down stored fat, causing ketones to build up in your body. Side effects from ketosis can include nausea, headache, mental fatigue and bad breath. "

Doesn't sound too good to me.

And please, spare me the "the healthcare industry keeps us sick for profit" speech.

Well, I am diabetic, and why anyone would want to voluntarily put their bodies into ketosis is beyond me.

"It's also possible that severely restricting carbohydrates to less than 20 grams a day can result in ketosis. Ketosis occurs when you don't have enough sugar (glucose) for energy, so your body breaks down stored fat, causing ketones to build up in your body. Side effects from ketosis can include nausea, headache, mental fatigue and bad breath. "

Doesn't sound too good to me.