Keto getting bad name due to Ketone strips use
You have got to be kidding me. Next headline; ”Fad keto dieters kick puppies for fun and exercise.”
Wow… So when I buy ketone strips I put diabetics in danger 
Couldn’t the stores just order more home? The world is strange…
Surely they can just make / order more which would be good for the economy too… 
I doubt any shortage is due to Keto people.
Here in the US, we had major medical supply shortages due to the hurricanes hitting Puerto Rico last year, as much of it was manufactured there. It took a while to shift manufacturing over to other facilities, and I don’t know if those on PR have ever been reopened even.
But it’s simple supply and demand. You don’t blame the demand side. You fix the supply side. And you would think that would make businesses happy.
The funny thing is, the only purpose of ketone test strips for dieters is to make people insane in futile attempts to make the stick turn more purple.
I see that a lot, but they definitely let me know when I was in ketosis. After that I only tested once in a while. And they definitely let me know I was out of ketosis after a birthday cake mishap, so I’m now relying on them to tell me when I’m back in again.
But I’ve never cared much about how pink/purple they are. Just as long as I know I’m back in ketosis.
LOL, I thought this would be a good thing? All the people that have reversed T2 now want the strips to maintain ketosis! /s
“Dieticians Association of Australia spokesman, Alan Barclay, said the keto diet was first popular in the 1920s, made a comeback in the 1970s, and was now back in fashion.
“There’s almost a 50-year cycle and if we think about it, there are three major nutrients in food; carbohydrates, fat and protein, and about every 10 years the fad diet of the day focuses on one of those nutrients by setting it out to be the bad guy or the good guy,” Dr Barclay said.
"I don’t think the ketogenic diet is a good diet because it’s extremely restrictive.”
My favourite people. He’s clearly never eaten keto. Restrictive? He’s avin’ a larf, ain’t he? LFHC is WAY more restrictive. They have no clue.
And all these poor diabetics and their poor stock control? If you need life saving equipment or medicine, you make sure you keep yourself in stock, right? Ie you have a safety stock. And you order in plenty of time.
And the funniest thing is the bloody strips are close to meaningless anyway!! 
That’s the crazy inversion. On HCLF, you can eat all the crack donuts, cake, potato chips and pastries you want. We avoid these foods at all cost. They see that as limiting, but, in reality, as limiting as the 12 steps are to an alcoholic.
Another crazy inversion: we can help reverse the diabetic’s problem. As long as you give up the highly-addictive and common food, that is. That Boston Cruller simply isn’t worth it.
I expect more, not less, heat than light, in the coming months.
Not supporting a HCLF diet, but that is not true either. You cannot eat that stuff on a HCLF diet either - thus the LF part of the HCLF.
Sigh, you are correct. I should say; “if you’re following recommended dietary guidelines” where donuts score higher than avocados.
There’s the high protein myth again. I get sick of seeing that.
A birthday cake mishap really doesn’t require testing. Assume it was a bad outcome, and reinforce the mentality against cheats and lapses. Let’s say you had the cake and still had trace ketones? Bad outcome, imo, as it confirms that cake is okay. Cake isn’t okay, so just assuming it is switching you off is better, and the stick confirms it. Maybe that reinforces your understanding.
Meanwhile, the sticks are fragile, so they don’t work right all the time, they are measuring a secondary measure of ketone metabolism, and they cause users to chase ketones, rather than focus on the best application for achieving the goal. Calling vLCvHF “keto,” imho, is counterproductive, as it leads you to think ketones are the goal.
Well, mine have been very reliable. So I will continue to use them for such purposes.
Whatever works.
That’s the point, right? On a HCLF diet you are restricted on calories, sugar has to be lowish, fat has to be low, so no food that actually tastes good, and you fill up on carbs: the only way to make carbs taste good is to add sugar, salt or fat to them. So there’s this never ending mantra of moderation. Which eventually leads to a compromised metabolism. Hence long term success on HCLF is rare (success rate somewhere between 1-5% depending on who you believe).
But for the diet professionals (dietitians) to say that keto is less sustainable than HCLF just shows how uninformed and unscientific these folks are. Might as well go and consult a witchdoctor.
I thought the reason those diets fail is largely to do with the calorie restriction part? I was listening to one of Jason Fung’s podcasts about it. Like, you restrict calories, weight loss happens for a short time until your metabolism adjusts to match your intake, you hit a plateau and have to restrict further, repeat ad infinitum until you’re fed up of feeling like complete garbage all the time and return to eating normally, by which point your metabolism is totally messed up etc etc weight regain…
I mean, filling up on carbs isn’t great (to me anyway) but it seems like vegans can make it work long term, so I assume HCLF diets mostly fail due to the fact that you just can’t starve yourself forever.