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40% would be considered high carb. Keto is generally considered to be under 20 grams of carbs per day.

• tzs 8y ago
  In medical research 40% is usually considered medium carb or moderately low. That doesn't really matter, though, because that particular study wasn't defining the low carb group as people who are at exactly 40%. It was 40% or lower, and included people doing much less than 40%. The data, which looks like it ran from around 20% to over 80% seems to show that around 50% got the best results, with the results getting worse that farther you were from that on either side. That's sufficient to cast doubt on all low carb diets, whether you use the medical research definition of low carb or the definition used by Keto, Atkins, or other very low carb diets. Of course it is possible that the results start getting better somewhere between 20% and zero, and maybe even get so much better that they beat that local minimum at around 50%.
  • nonbel 8y ago
    There is zero reason to extrapolate from 20% (apparently the lowest percent seen in the study according to the figure), to a keto diet (5-10%). You won't even be in ketosis at 20%...