Low carb Vs keto

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  • rsclause
    rsclause Posts: 3,103 Member
    The fat is my favorite part of keto!
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,002 Member
    psuLemon wrote: »
    I think what would be nice is to understand what the OPs health concerns are and what is her current plan, both diet and exercise. While diet can have an effect on health, exercise does too... The combination will often provide much more of an impact as compared to diet alone.

    ^^^100%
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,002 Member
    I'm debating whether or not to do low carb, Vs keto for my health.

    I'm not sure I can do keto, but I do like some of the recipes
    Just not enough veggies for me.

    @ChubbyRose84 I found there is no answer to your question.

    In the end I decide to go for annually improving health markers. Why not get a good baseline exam and lab work then pick your Way Of Eating and get started. If you your health markers are getting worse year after year find a new WOE. If it is working so so then try tweaking it. That has been working out for me for the past 4 years with better health markers than in decades.

    There are no magical WOE's out there that works for everyone. Work to find one that works out in your case and work to learn why and do more of the same as long as it is working well for you is my thought.

    ^^^ 100%
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    Kegwsm29 wrote: »
    Larkspur94 wrote: »
    MikePTY wrote: »
    What do you mean about "for your health"? Unless you have been recommended a diet like that for a specific reason by a doctor, there is nothing healthy about eating less carbs. Carbs have gotten a reputation as unhealthy because companies make billions of dollars a year selling low carb solutions to things, so they've needed to make carbs out to be the bad guy. But there's no evidence at all backing that up.

    @MikePTY
    There's actually scientific study that proves carbs are bad for you. Unlike the 'fat is bad for you' hypothesis which has yet to proven, despite the billions of dollars spent on many many studies.
    Studies on the carbs have to be self funded as the government won't fund them (Make too much money on the carb food industry and medicine to help with illness caused by carbs, to let it be known). Look them up. The documentary 'The Magic Pill' has a section that briefs it down for you. You can watch on Netflix. Low carb/keto prevents heart disease, diabetes, obesity, alzheimer's, improves autism, cures asthma and early cancer, increases life on late cancer, etc...

    Hear hear.
    Also... keto levels of carbs (20g) there are no glucose spikes (and inevitable troughs) so energy is stable. Also reduces insulin production and reverses T2D effects (hardened arteries and neuropathy etc). Also fat has roughly 9kcal per unit of energy compared with glucose's 4kcal so utilising the bodies stored fat for fuel is easy once glycogen stpres have been depleted. The brain loves ketones and you find a great mental clarity and natural high. Cannot recommend it highly enough. I have worked with diabetic patients for a long time. Reducing glucose intake is key! The NHS is finally advising T2D patients to follow a low carb way of eating. The science is the reasoning... not woo.

    And all the calories in calories out brigade who will woo my post... youre not considering the hormonal implications (insulin is a hormone). Theres way more to it than that.

    To the bolded: In what capacity?
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    edited December 2018
    As I understand it, human babies are born in a state of ketosis and tend to remain that way for a few days until a mother's milk really comes in.
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    psuLemon wrote: »
    rsclause wrote: »
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I'm debating whether or not to do low carb, Vs keto for my health.

    I'm not sure I can do keto, but I do like some of the recipes
    Just not enough veggies for me.

    I can and have done lower carb...but I could never do keto. While I do eat meat, my diet is heavily plant based and things like beans, lentils, oats, potatoes and other tubers, veggies, and fruit are staples in my diet.

    I can eat veggies daily but I must admit I do miss the potatoes, tubers and fruit. The bread not as much as I thought I would.

    My biggest complaint about keto, which i did cycle with, was the lack of veggies and fruits. Both of which have been demonstrated to be extremely supportive for overall health markers.

    There is also substantial more evidence in favor of more plant based diets over meat based.

    Still there are many variables to consider, like if the OP has specific health concerns.

    In favour for what reason?

    There is no evidence that I know of that a plant based diet (which I interpret to be a diet with mostly foods and calories from plants such as vegetables, fruits, grains, refined grains, vegetable oils and sugars) is better for health than a meat based diet (where most foods and calories are coming from meat, eggs, seafood, dairy and their associated fats).

    I may be wrong. I'll look at anything that says otherwise.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Kegwsm29 wrote: »
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    Larkspur94 wrote: »
    MikePTY wrote: »
    What do you mean about "for your health"? Unless you have been recommended a diet like that for a specific reason by a doctor, there is nothing healthy about eating less carbs. Carbs have gotten a reputation as unhealthy because companies make billions of dollars a year selling low carb solutions to things, so they've needed to make carbs out to be the bad guy. But there's no evidence at all backing that up.

    @MikePTY
    There's actually scientific study that proves carbs are bad for you. Unlike the 'fat is bad for you' hypothesis which has yet to proven, despite the billions of dollars spent on many many studies.
    Studies on the carbs have to be self funded as the government won't fund them (Make too much money on the carb food industry and medicine to help with illness caused by carbs, to let it be known). Look them up. The documentary 'The Magic Pill' has a section that briefs it down for you. You can watch on Netflix. Low carb/keto prevents heart disease, diabetes, obesity, alzheimer's, improves autism, cures asthma and early cancer, increases life on late cancer, etc...

    Hear hear.
    Also... keto levels of carbs (20g) there are no glucose spikes (and inevitable troughs) so energy is stable. Also reduces insulin production and reverses T2D effects (hardened arteries and neuropathy etc). Also fat has roughly 9kcal per unit of energy compared with glucose's 4kcal so utilising the bodies stored fat for fuel is easy once glycogen stpres have been depleted. The brain loves ketones and you find a great mental clarity and natural high. Cannot recommend it highly enough. I have worked with diabetic patients for a long time. Reducing glucose intake is key! The NHS is finally advising T2D patients to follow a low carb way of eating. The science is the reasoning... not woo.

    And all the calories in calories out brigade who will woo my post... youre not considering the hormonal implications (insulin is a hormone). Theres way more to it than that.

    No, there are no studies showing that "carbs" (a hugely variable category) are bad for you.

    I eat way more than 20 g carbs and don't get glucose spikes and have stable energy.

    Insulin is not bad.

    Everyone is able to use stored body fat for fuel.

    No human cultures are ketogenic (the Inuit would be except they seem to have genetic adaptations to make them not ketogenic at levels others would be, which contradicts the idea that there's some benefit to being continually in ketosis).

    I think keto is likely fine (if you maximize vegetables! and hard to do below 20 g carbs, IMO, although easy enough at a level in which most people are in ketosis). I also think other things, like activity, are much more important than this silly argument about macronutrients. But if you slam how others eat, I will call you on it.

    Dont think youve read the post..you just reacted, and claimed theres an 'argument and ive 'slammed' people. No slamming, just stating calories in cals out is simplistic and not helpful for many people especially some females.

    And actually there are many studies... you just dont know it. The Masai and indigenous American tribes were all fat based... its how we are born.

    Amd yes, excess insulin is very bad, im sure youve read the countless studies. This is universally accepted.

    What studies, specifically, do we not know about?
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,002 Member
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    I guess I am too "addicted" to fruit and vegetables to want to give up fruit or limit vegetables (when I tried keto I was always struggling with going over my much higher than the normal keto limit of 60 g total or 35 g net carbs, and that was from vegetables, nuts, and a little greek yogurt or cottage cheese -- I do not believe that any of those are foods that I should have to worry about, and indeed I think my preference for eating lots of vegetables is healthy for me). That I missed fruit I also don't see as a bad thing, nor is the fact that I missed being able to rely on vegetable-based source of protein like beans and lentils, which IMO are very healthy. Not to mention that this idea that there's no money/power in animal ag, but that the vegans have all the power, is not a very reality-based one, IMO.

    I think keto can be a great choice for some people, and I like a somewhat lower carb diet myself, but I don't understand why some people seem to think they can't just say "I like low carb for these reasons" or "I prefer keto" but must instead attack the dietary choices of people who eat higher carb diets or make inaccurate claims about eating carbs being unhealthy (despite the blue zones).

    TLDR: It's really too bad that this thread is turning into "attack people who eat carbs" and "claim that eating carbs is somehow inherently unhealthy." IMO, OP was given lots of good, unbiased advise that respected her question and concerns before that occurred.

    This is what happens when you deal with zealots...
  • amy19355
    amy19355 Posts: 805 Member
    MikePTY wrote: »
    Kegwsm29 wrote: »
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    Larkspur94 wrote: »
    MikePTY wrote: »
    What do you mean about "for your health"? Unless you have been recommended a diet like that for a specific reason by a doctor, there is nothing healthy about eating less carbs. Carbs have gotten a reputation as unhealthy because companies make billions of dollars a year selling low carb solutions to things, so they've needed to make carbs out to be the bad guy. But there's no evidence at all backing that up.

    @MikePTY
    There's actually scientific study that proves carbs are bad for you. Unlike the 'fat is bad for you' hypothesis which has yet to proven, despite the billions of dollars spent on many many studies.
    Studies on the carbs have to be self funded as the government won't fund them (Make too much money on the carb food industry and medicine to help with illness caused by carbs, to let it be known). Look them up. The documentary 'The Magic Pill' has a section that briefs it down for you. You can watch on Netflix. Low carb/keto prevents heart disease, diabetes, obesity, alzheimer's, improves autism, cures asthma and early cancer, increases life on late cancer, etc...

    Hear hear.
    Also... keto levels of carbs (20g) there are no glucose spikes (and inevitable troughs) so energy is stable. Also reduces insulin production and reverses T2D effects (hardened arteries and neuropathy etc). Also fat has roughly 9kcal per unit of energy compared with glucose's 4kcal so utilising the bodies stored fat for fuel is easy once glycogen stpres have been depleted. The brain loves ketones and you find a great mental clarity and natural high. Cannot recommend it highly enough. I have worked with diabetic patients for a long time. Reducing glucose intake is key! The NHS is finally advising T2D patients to follow a low carb way of eating. The science is the reasoning... not woo.

    And all the calories in calories out brigade who will woo my post... youre not considering the hormonal implications (insulin is a hormone). Theres way more to it than that.

    No, there are no studies showing that "carbs" (a hugely variable category) are bad for you.

    I eat way more than 20 g carbs and don't get glucose spikes and have stable energy.

    Insulin is not bad.

    Everyone is able to use stored body fat for fuel.

    No human cultures are ketogenic (the Inuit would be except they seem to have genetic adaptations to make them not ketogenic at levels others would be, which contradicts the idea that there's some benefit to being continually in ketosis).

    I think keto is likely fine (if you maximize vegetables! and hard to do below 20 g carbs, IMO, although easy enough at a level in which most people are in ketosis). I also think other things, like activity, are much more important than this silly argument about macronutrients. But if you slam how others eat, I will call you on it.

    Dont think youve read the post..you just reacted, and claimed theres an 'argument and ive 'slammed' people. No slamming, just stating calories in cals out is simplistic and not helpful for many people especially some females.

    And actually there are many studies... you just dont know it. The Masai and indigenous American tribes were all fat based... its how we are born.

    Amd yes, excess insulin is very bad, im sure youve read the countless studies. This is universally accepted.

    What studies, specifically, do we not know about?

    You wouldn't know them. They go to school in Canada. But they're totally real.

    Are you telling us that only students in Canada are able to see this information?
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    I'm debating whether or not to do low carb, Vs keto for my health.

    I'm not sure I can do keto, but I do like some of the recipes
    Just not enough veggies for me.

    I'm not keto - I'd miss my fruits and veggies - but do like some of the recipes too. I'm in a keto group on FB just for the recipes :smiley:

    Made PB chocolate mini cups last night. Subbed 2 t of sugar for the Splenda cuz I detest artificial sweeteners. (Still only 3 g sugar per serving.) Used 30 grams of Ghirardelli bittersweet chips instead of the Lindt. Added more PB instead of the butter. I was able to limit myself to two last night, hooray!

    http://screwedonstraight.net/keto-diet-peanut-butter-cup-fat-bombs/

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  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    amy19355 wrote: »
    MikePTY wrote: »
    Kegwsm29 wrote: »
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    Larkspur94 wrote: »
    MikePTY wrote: »
    What do you mean about "for your health"? Unless you have been recommended a diet like that for a specific reason by a doctor, there is nothing healthy about eating less carbs. Carbs have gotten a reputation as unhealthy because companies make billions of dollars a year selling low carb solutions to things, so they've needed to make carbs out to be the bad guy. But there's no evidence at all backing that up.

    @MikePTY
    There's actually scientific study that proves carbs are bad for you. Unlike the 'fat is bad for you' hypothesis which has yet to proven, despite the billions of dollars spent on many many studies.
    Studies on the carbs have to be self funded as the government won't fund them (Make too much money on the carb food industry and medicine to help with illness caused by carbs, to let it be known). Look them up. The documentary 'The Magic Pill' has a section that briefs it down for you. You can watch on Netflix. Low carb/keto prevents heart disease, diabetes, obesity, alzheimer's, improves autism, cures asthma and early cancer, increases life on late cancer, etc...

    Hear hear.
    Also... keto levels of carbs (20g) there are no glucose spikes (and inevitable troughs) so energy is stable. Also reduces insulin production and reverses T2D effects (hardened arteries and neuropathy etc). Also fat has roughly 9kcal per unit of energy compared with glucose's 4kcal so utilising the bodies stored fat for fuel is easy once glycogen stpres have been depleted. The brain loves ketones and you find a great mental clarity and natural high. Cannot recommend it highly enough. I have worked with diabetic patients for a long time. Reducing glucose intake is key! The NHS is finally advising T2D patients to follow a low carb way of eating. The science is the reasoning... not woo.

    And all the calories in calories out brigade who will woo my post... youre not considering the hormonal implications (insulin is a hormone). Theres way more to it than that.

    No, there are no studies showing that "carbs" (a hugely variable category) are bad for you.

    I eat way more than 20 g carbs and don't get glucose spikes and have stable energy.

    Insulin is not bad.

    Everyone is able to use stored body fat for fuel.

    No human cultures are ketogenic (the Inuit would be except they seem to have genetic adaptations to make them not ketogenic at levels others would be, which contradicts the idea that there's some benefit to being continually in ketosis).

    I think keto is likely fine (if you maximize vegetables! and hard to do below 20 g carbs, IMO, although easy enough at a level in which most people are in ketosis). I also think other things, like activity, are much more important than this silly argument about macronutrients. But if you slam how others eat, I will call you on it.

    Dont think youve read the post..you just reacted, and claimed theres an 'argument and ive 'slammed' people. No slamming, just stating calories in cals out is simplistic and not helpful for many people especially some females.

    And actually there are many studies... you just dont know it. The Masai and indigenous American tribes were all fat based... its how we are born.

    Amd yes, excess insulin is very bad, im sure youve read the countless studies. This is universally accepted.

    What studies, specifically, do we not know about?

    You wouldn't know them. They go to school in Canada. But they're totally real.

    Are you telling us that only students in Canada are able to see this information?

    Were you unaware that there's a Canadian Student internet edition? It's a little cheaper than the regular internet version, because educational institutions have gathered together to reduce the price, and thanks to bargaining power, they get all the good scientific information.
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I'm debating whether or not to do low carb, Vs keto for my health.

    I'm not sure I can do keto, but I do like some of the recipes
    Just not enough veggies for me.

    I can and have done lower carb...but I could never do keto. While I do eat meat, my diet is heavily plant based and things like beans, lentils, oats, potatoes and other tubers, veggies, and fruit are staples in my diet.

    That's how I feel. I tried keto for a while and missed fruit and felt like I was too dependent on meat for protein (and also I was always hitting about 35 net carbs with my carbs mostly from veg plus some nuts). I like eating lower carb, however.

    Out of curiosity some time ago I calculated what I would need on keto with my weight loss calorie target... @ 70F/20P/10C my fat intake would be around 195 grams @ 2500 calories per day. Even at a lower target of 2,000 calories per day, it would have been around 155.5 grams...I personally can't imagine eating that much dietary fat.

    I'm also just not convinced that there aren't health repercussions down the road with keto...I'm not aware of any long term studies on keto and human health...I am aware of many long term studies on eating a diet rich in plants.

    One group on ketogenic diets longer term has been studied -- that's children who are on it for epilepsy control. My understanding is that the results aren't that encouraging for health outcomes (but the children are better off having their epilepsy controlled). Of course, it's a legitimate question if the results from children can be extrapolated to adults. Some of the issues that the children face may be unique to doing this type of eating while growing (loss of bone density). Others, like increased blood lipids and high cholesterol may be more concerning for everyone. Other issues seem to be well-controlled with supplementation of the nutrients that may be harder to get on a ketogenic diet.

    Epileptic children were calorie and protein restricted too. They did not eat a typical ketogenic diet.

    The longest studies that I have seen on keto are 1-2 years. Case studies can be much longer.

    Ketogenic diets do not typically worsen lipid profiles. HDL usually rises, triglycerides fall, LDL particle size becomes more favourable although in some people LDL may go up or down, and crp tends to fall.
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    I am missing where the thread turned into "attack people who eat carbs" and "claim that eating carbs is somehow inherently unhealthy." I remember one post where they said something like carbs are unhealthy. One. But that could have been clarified with just a few more words or sentences, like refined and highly processed carbs are unhealthy, which is true for the most part.

    On the other hand, the low carb proponents have been called anti-carbers and zealots so far. Shrug
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    MikePTY wrote: »
    Kegwsm29 wrote: »

    Dont think youve read the post..you just reacted, and claimed theres an 'argument and ive 'slammed' people. No slamming, just stating calories in cals out is simplistic and not helpful for many people especially some females.

    And actually there are many studies... you just dont know it. The Masai and indigenous American tribes were all fat based... its how we are born.

    Amd yes, excess insulin is very bad, im sure youve read the countless studies. This is universally accepted.

    I find it interesting/amusing that the anti-carb forces treat carbs as if they are this new found thing, as if we started eating them in the 20th century or something when "big-carb" came along. Humans have been eating carbs throughout human history. even taking away the whole "gatherer" part of hunter-gatherer, historians believe that humans have been making bread for at least 30,000 years. The "paleo" men actually ate bread as part of their diet. It's how we were actually born.

    We are born eating grains? No, we are born in a ketogenic state and stay that way for a few days.

    I'm not arguing that humans ate grains throughout history. We eat a lot of things. Doesn't mean it is ideal.
  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
    amy19355 wrote: »
    MikePTY wrote: »
    Kegwsm29 wrote: »
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    Larkspur94 wrote: »
    MikePTY wrote: »
    What do you mean about "for your health"? Unless you have been recommended a diet like that for a specific reason by a doctor, there is nothing healthy about eating less carbs. Carbs have gotten a reputation as unhealthy because companies make billions of dollars a year selling low carb solutions to things, so they've needed to make carbs out to be the bad guy. But there's no evidence at all backing that up.

    @MikePTY
    There's actually scientific study that proves carbs are bad for you. Unlike the 'fat is bad for you' hypothesis which has yet to proven, despite the billions of dollars spent on many many studies.
    Studies on the carbs have to be self funded as the government won't fund them (Make too much money on the carb food industry and medicine to help with illness caused by carbs, to let it be known). Look them up. The documentary 'The Magic Pill' has a section that briefs it down for you. You can watch on Netflix. Low carb/keto prevents heart disease, diabetes, obesity, alzheimer's, improves autism, cures asthma and early cancer, increases life on late cancer, etc...

    Hear hear.
    Also... keto levels of carbs (20g) there are no glucose spikes (and inevitable troughs) so energy is stable. Also reduces insulin production and reverses T2D effects (hardened arteries and neuropathy etc). Also fat has roughly 9kcal per unit of energy compared with glucose's 4kcal so utilising the bodies stored fat for fuel is easy once glycogen stpres have been depleted. The brain loves ketones and you find a great mental clarity and natural high. Cannot recommend it highly enough. I have worked with diabetic patients for a long time. Reducing glucose intake is key! The NHS is finally advising T2D patients to follow a low carb way of eating. The science is the reasoning... not woo.

    And all the calories in calories out brigade who will woo my post... youre not considering the hormonal implications (insulin is a hormone). Theres way more to it than that.

    No, there are no studies showing that "carbs" (a hugely variable category) are bad for you.

    I eat way more than 20 g carbs and don't get glucose spikes and have stable energy.

    Insulin is not bad.

    Everyone is able to use stored body fat for fuel.

    No human cultures are ketogenic (the Inuit would be except they seem to have genetic adaptations to make them not ketogenic at levels others would be, which contradicts the idea that there's some benefit to being continually in ketosis).

    I think keto is likely fine (if you maximize vegetables! and hard to do below 20 g carbs, IMO, although easy enough at a level in which most people are in ketosis). I also think other things, like activity, are much more important than this silly argument about macronutrients. But if you slam how others eat, I will call you on it.

    Dont think youve read the post..you just reacted, and claimed theres an 'argument and ive 'slammed' people. No slamming, just stating calories in cals out is simplistic and not helpful for many people especially some females.

    And actually there are many studies... you just dont know it. The Masai and indigenous American tribes were all fat based... its how we are born.

    Amd yes, excess insulin is very bad, im sure youve read the countless studies. This is universally accepted.

    What studies, specifically, do we not know about?

    You wouldn't know them. They go to school in Canada. But they're totally real.

    Are you telling us that only students in Canada are able to see this information?

    It was a joke :). It's like the kid in school telling his friends that he "definitely" has a girlfriend, but they just don't know or see her because she lives in Canada.