Another article against keto

(chris) #1
#2

Want to bet that this article was written based on a paid agreement with the sugar industry?

(Duncan Kerridge) #3

Pretty much the total opposite of what everyone here has experienced, meh.

(Christopher Bingel) #4

Just a few #badscience tidbits from the article:

  • “Glucose and insulin, at proper levels, are used for energy” (half right)
  • “Lisa put it pretty simply: a ketogenic diet mimics starvation. The starvation effect causes the body to go into a metabolic state called ‘ketosis.’” (Nope)
  • “The liver becomes the sole provider of glucose to feed your hungry organs — especially the brain” (True, but ignores the fact that cells can burn ketones)
  • “Because the brain cannot directly use fat for energy, it needs a backup source when the carbohydrates are gone” (Neither can anything else, that’s why we have a digestive system)
  • Side effects: Weak bones and stress fractures. (Hey @Brenda, how are you feeling?)
  • Side effects Headaches, bad mood, and bad memory. (Sure, for a week or two, and then feeling better than ever)
  • Side effects: Increased risk of disease. (Anybody here sicker than normal?)
  • Side effects: Slowed metabolism. (Hey @richard, are those bike rides getting slower?)
  • Side effects: The balloon effect. “once you go back to your normal diet (because as Lisa put it, ‘a keto diet for life sounds like the worst thing ever’), you will balloon up.” (Yes, if you go back to eating the way that got you fat, you’ll get fat again. shockedface)
  • “science supporting the ketogenic diet is either widely discredited or nonexistent” (You mean like the loosely connected “facts” in this article?)
(Allie) #5

What a load of bollox it is too.

(Ben) #6

Fun reading the comments though. She gets torn a new one

(Richard Morris) #7

All our cells with mitochondria can burn fatty acids, and ketones, and glucose, and protein to make energy. Cells in the brain can’t get adequate fatty acids to support their energy demands because they are behind a barrier that protects the brain from the rest of the body that doesn’t have sufficient transports for fatty acids - but they do get some (eg: medium and short chained fatty acids).

Some brain cells, kidney cells, and blood cells are without mitochondria and can’t burn any fatty acids.

#8

“essential carbohydrate intake”

(Allie) #9

Says it all.

(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #10

IDK man. I’m just a 53 year old woman riding a dualsport halfway across the country,

fasted.

You tell me.

(Cheryl Hall) #11

@BantingBen - the comments are amazing!!!