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37% of your dietary intake from carbs is not low carb.
by throwawaylalala 8y ago
37% of your dietary intake from carbs is not low carb.
- dbcurtis 8y agoTrue, but how many people are below 37%? They are not if they eat a typical American diet.
- lawn 8y agoMost people aren't on low carbs no.
- boltzmannbrain 8y ago+1. Keto is vastly lower, typically 5%. Someone eating a 37% carb diet will receive none of the health benefits that spending substantial periods in ketosis can bring, e.g. lowering cholesterol.
- anewone 8y agoAlternatively: the study was about "low carb", while keto is "extremely low carb".
- Phantasmagoria 8y agoBut it appears people are slandering keto with this study so.
- nonbel 8y agoId say the highest you could possibly call "low carb" is ~100 g/day. That'd be ~400 cal/day, or 20% of a 2000 cal/day diet. And really 100 g/day is a lot. Most people on "low carb" diets are going to be eating half or a quarter of that. So, this is just more ridiculous nutrition research funded by the US government, produced by academia.
- agumonkey 8y agowhat about the relationship between carbs and fibers ? some say that fibers modify the gut flora in ways that change how carbs are digested.
- nonbel 8y agoWhat about it? I'm just saying this study has nothing to do with a low carb diet. They made up their own definition of "low carb", then people who read the results get confused and try to apply the conclusions to actual "low carb" diets.