What I’m putting together is that you seem to subscribe to the “eat no carbohydrates because insulin bad and causes fattening” thinking pushed by the keto diet fad.
There are legitimate reasons to go on a keto diet, one of them is that inducing ketosis may allow you to lose weight marginally faster. But there is no conclusive evidence that it is superior to a normal diet in terms of long-term health implications. And it has DEFINITE downsides if you care about your physical performance, as glycogen consumed during physical exertion is replenished much slower when eating a restricted amount of carbohydrates.
In fact I can mostly find it referred to as “low-carbohydrate” diet because it is near impossible to entirely eliminate carbohydrates from your diet without also dropping some other essential nutrients, unless you get those via pills.
In fact when the keto diet is taken to the extreme in order to treat epilepsy, that’s exactly what they do. And even then it’s not harmless.
What I’m putting together is that you seem to subscribe to the “eat no carbohydrates because insulin bad and causes fattening” thinking pushed by the keto diet fad.
There are legitimate reasons to go on a keto diet, one of them is that inducing ketosis may allow you to lose weight marginally faster. But there is no conclusive evidence that it is superior to a normal diet in terms of long-term health implications. And it has DEFINITE downsides if you care about your physical performance, as glycogen consumed during physical exertion is replenished much slower when eating a restricted amount of carbohydrates.
In fact I can mostly find it referred to as “low-carbohydrate” diet because it is near impossible to entirely eliminate carbohydrates from your diet without also dropping some other essential nutrients, unless you get those via pills.
In fact when the keto diet is taken to the extreme in order to treat epilepsy, that’s exactly what they do. And even then it’s not harmless.