Every January people’s minds turn to New Years resolutions and losing some weight … and because this year the most googled diet term is “Keto” the ketogenic diet attracts good interest from people wanting to find a new diet, and bad interest from people trying to flog their own rubbish by trolling ketogenic dieters.
A perfect example of a keto troll is the US News, last January this was their diet review … anyone on the panel who had a diet got it into the top few … any diet that is threatening those because it is reversing diseases across the country … last.
Here is their 2017 story - January 4th
And of course as sure a stink follows shit it’s back again in 2018 reusing the same copy including telling us of the new fangled keto diet that is new to their list (they said that in 2017 too)
They do it every year. I’d give the US News and their panel of experts the troll badge
Speaking of people who need the troll badge … Dr WIlliam Davis, every year he also blogs about how awful keto is … and every year we have a thread about that
He has a book to sell, it’s January and the internet is a target rich environment of potential dieters … and everyone is googling “KETO” … OK so that’s one way to get some attention.
Spoiler: He’s wrong. @amber has the science to show it on her blog …
… but his scare BS will get him attention so does he even care to be correct?
Finally this time of the year we often attract vegans who are convinced that we are eating wrong coming to show us the error of our ways.
case in point: I'm a HCLF vegan, convince me I'm wrong
Veganism is not a nutritional argument, it’s an ethical position. I respect vegans, and I know plenty who try very hard to eat nutritionally within their ethical framework. I’m even considering doing keto vegan for a month this year just to walk in their shoes.
What I don’t respect is trolls staving for attention who have no other contribution but to rile people up for LULZ.
That one I am happy to give a troll badge too … there have been other more subtle ones. One earnest poster trying to convince people in the zero carb group that they need more plants. In that case I’m not awarding a troll badge cos I think the poster is just misinformed, and I don’t want to make fun of that.
Look I troll sometimes, like when Diabetes Australia or the Dietitians Association of Australia posts diets for diabetics that are clearly just carby products from their sponsors … I jump on and post snarky responses and if I get a response from a student dietitian trying to baffle me with some science-adjacent terms … I drop Grabthar’s hammer of Science on them.
We tolerate a little trolling, and make happy sport of that, so please flag posts you think are flat out trolling we’ll likely leave the post but give the poster a badge. If they collect too many troll badges they’ll be suspended. We don’t really need people in this community who are only here to troll, but we can tolerate some sport.
