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Many evidence-based practitioners disagree: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-diet-for-diabetes/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-diet-for-diab

Many evidence-based practitioners disagree: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-diet-for-diabetes/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-diet-for-diabetes/ http://plantpositive.com/blog/2012/3/26/tpns-52-54-the-best-low-carb-research-money-can-buy.html http://plantpositive.com/blog/2012/3/26/tpns-52-54-the-best-...

AstralStorm 7y ago
Careful, this is with picked evidence. Use metastudies - they show effects are rather low if any once corrected for lifestyle factors... I was suckered into the Greger's vegan diet for a year with no results, not even in bloodwork. (Even supplemented.) Most importantly, we have not really plumbed the depths of ketogenic diets. (Which is very different from eating a lot of meat - it's a lot of fats and generally MCT and middle chain saturated are the optimal.)
- cyounkins 7y ago
  Any author or paper can be subject to bias, including meta-analysis. I understand the discussion is about fats in general, but we have extremely reliable evidence that saturated fat causes heart disease, the #1 killer of men and women, our parents and grandparents. I'll quote HackerNews user cageface because s/he said it so well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16566968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16566968): "Literally hundreds of metabolic ward studies (the gold standard in nutrition) have demonstrated a direct, causal relationship between saturated fat intake and blood cholesterol levels. And the correlation between high cholesterol levels and CVD has been known for decades. Don't be fooled by observational studies which fail to disentangle the highly variable baseline individual cholesterol levels from the effects of fat in the diet. Here is a review of 395 direct feeding experiments, which are much more appropriate for measuring the effects of diet:" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9006469 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9006469 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.cir.0000103664.47406.49 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.cir.000010366...

AstralStorm 7y ago

Careful, this is with picked evidence. Use metastudies - they show effects are rather low if any once corrected for lifestyle factors... I was suckered into the Greger's vegan diet for a year with no results, not even in bloodwork. (Even supplemented.) Most importantly, we have not really plumbed the depths of ketogenic diets. (Which is very different from eating a lot of meat - it's a lot of fats and generally MCT and middle chain saturated are the optimal.)

cyounkins 7y ago
Any author or paper can be subject to bias, including meta-analysis. I understand the discussion is about fats in general, but we have extremely reliable evidence that saturated fat causes heart disease, the #1 killer of men and women, our parents and grandparents. I'll quote HackerNews user cageface because s/he said it so well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16566968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16566968): "Literally hundreds of metabolic ward studies (the gold standard in nutrition) have demonstrated a direct, causal relationship between saturated fat intake and blood cholesterol levels. And the correlation between high cholesterol levels and CVD has been known for decades. Don't be fooled by observational studies which fail to disentangle the highly variable baseline individual cholesterol levels from the effects of fat in the diet. Here is a review of 395 direct feeding experiments, which are much more appropriate for measuring the effects of diet:" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9006469 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9006469 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.cir.0000103664.47406.49 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.cir.000010366...