>And yes, I take every opportunity when its relevant to mention a healthy diet. Potentially healthy diet. I don't mean to be pedantic here, and as someone who

>And yes, I take every opportunity when its relevant to mention a healthy diet. Potentially healthy diet. I don't mean to be pedantic here, and as someone who has adopted a keto diet I think it's far better than the standard american diet. Clearly it stops obesity, we know the body doesn't synthesize fat if there aren't any carbs. But the same thing can be accomplished with some exercise and portion control. Still from mine and others experience it seems to help with issues like concentration and constant fatigue. But at the end of the day we don't completely know the effects of keto long-term, the same as we didn't really know the effects of a high carb diet long-term, especially in terms of overconsumption. Overconsumption of carbs will definitely lead to obesity and health problems, but it's possible that long-term overconsumption of fats/proteins may have their own effects (though not obesity). We also largely don't know what effects a keto diet will have on childhood development, perhaps there are parts of the brain or body that don't develop as well without a moderate amount of carbs in the diet. We do know people have adopted keto long-term without any apparent issues (those who suffer from certain types of seizures), but it hasn't been adopted on a large enough scale over time to see the effects on a population like we have from the large scale adoption of high carb diets. I think there's too much going on between genetics, gut biomes, and lifestyle to really say keto is a healthy diet for everyone. Those promoting keto should be cognizant of our deficiencies in knowledge while still promoting the benefits. tl;dr IMO it's too early to flat out say keto is a healthy diet, especially when extrapolating that statement to the entire population (though I don't think you were).