The fact that there’s so many diets out there, and that there’s an annual ranking like this says just about everything you could say about diets in general.
Also this bit:
We want to provide comprehensive, trustworthy information that highlights the diet standouts and those that don’t perform so well in an array of different categories.
If they really were ranking them on “performing well” (whatever characteristics they would use to indicate that), keto would surely be near the top, if not at the top. Instead keto is ranked low with this statement:
Those are diets that have few substantiated claims, are extremely restrictive, harder to follow, and they eliminate entire food groups, which is really not something that’s substantiated by science
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Substantiated claims - Virta and just about everything else going on in the space for years
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Extremely restrictive - does anyone eating keto feel restricted? See the ‘What did you keto today’ thread
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Harder to follow - once a newcomer realises the importance of electrolytes, how is it hard to follow? Stay under 20g of carbs a day, everything else is easy magic
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Eliminate entire food groups - you call that food?
Sadly, it works. I’ve had people I know who were very interested in keto because they’ve seen my results, but they then cite articles like these and no matter how much I try to persuade them – or at least guide them to where they can read things that show the opposite of these articles – I can’t keep them engaged. It starts to feel a bit like me calling out “fake news”.