Sorry, keto fans, you're probably not in ketosis

(Sommer Strickland) #1

https://www.popsci.com/not-in-ketosis
Let me hear your thoughts!

(Lonnie Hedley) #2

My thoughts are that I don’t test ketones so I don’t care.

Also, some of the information at the end is old school that has been proven wrong. CVD? Wrong. Fiber? Wrong.

(Allie) #3

Already being discussed.

(Randy) #4

(Bunny) #5

I found the click bait at the bottom of the page about Macaulay Culkin’s “Memoirs of Neverland Ranch” quite intriguing though!

(Justin Cain Hoffman ) #6

:sweat_smile::sweat_smile::sweat_smile:

(Ida) #7

They use slippery slope arguments, like “probably” - like when they make the assumption that we can’t get enough fiber because we don’t eat grain, then they go on with that argument; or the assumption that the fats we eat are poor quality fats, then they expand on that. Additionally, they make the further assumption that we eat too much or too little protien, & that we are incapable of controlling that - further, that Ketosis is only a state that can be achieved by doctors or in children. They make no mention of our measuring devices like breath, blood or Keto strips. They magnify a Keto lifestyle done poorly with scare phrases like our bodies will turn to using bone and muscle. In the end the conclusions are built on flimsy assumptions, and they round it out with a do not recommend. Ultimately this article falls short of true science which is measurable & repeatable, much like the measurable and repeatable results obtained by our Keto Clan here, and by objective scientific studies which are easily obtained from the NIH. Drop the mic, Keto-on. :smiley:

(back and doublin' down) #8

ugh! Thinking the “Popular” in Popular Science just overwhelmed the Science!

(Michele) #9

Typical mangling of historical material without reference to the most recent material.

(Steffen Yount) #10

That whole part about how small your banana, apple, and bread based meals were going to be while following a keto diet just really emphasized for me how much the author was missing the point, and just didn’t get how flavor ritch a full fat diet can be.

Fat’s where the flavor’s at baby! And that’s why this diet is so sustainable!

I’m 22 months in with no plans to give up my bacon, ribeyes, heavy cream, hollandaise, or avocado mayonnaise!

(Empress of the Unexpected) #11

And you shouldn’t!!!

(Alec) #12

Complete and utter bollox.

(back and doublin' down) #13

I wonder how this words would sound with a Texas accent, bet they wouldn’t even know I was cussin’!

(Alec) #14

I think they’d assume you were talking about some beef…:rofl::rofl:

(Alec) #15

In case anyone wants to know where this came from, this word was made popular by a character in a comic called Viz in the UK in the 80s. Very much a young adults comic, there was a character in there called Roger Mellie, The Man on the Telly. His catchphrase or swearword of choice was “bollox”. Ah great, times! :smiley::smiley: