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The fatal flaw in this study is that it examined people with low carb diets, not people who adopted low carb diets. At worst it's misleading and at best it fail
by Causality1 5y ago
The fatal flaw in this study is that it examined people with low carb diets, not people who adopted low carb diets. At worst it's misleading and at best it fails to address what effect the adoption of a low-carb meat based diet has on an obese person accustomed to a high carb diet. If you bacon your way to losing 150 pounds you're probably going to have a higher mortality than the average person, but probably less than the average 300 pound person.
- estaseuropano 5y agoIs it though? I think that's the point of the study - not all keto are equal. High meat keto increases mortality, high vegetable keto decreases mortality. That the same is true for non-diet diets is already well established so this just shows that even in diets high meat is unhealthy.
- Causality1 5y agoHigh meat is unhealthy compared to a normal/healthy diet. The elephant in the room is whether an unhealthy overweight high-carb person is healthier on a high meat diet. Is it healthier to be a 350 pound man eating McDonald's every day or a 200 pound man eating steak and eggs? Keto may not be a healthy lifestyle but is it a better alternative for the morbidly obese?
- kcplate 5y agoMy problem with these studies is that the headlines don’t tell the whole story of possible improvement of a persons mortality. As a insulin dependent type 2 diabetic that used to top 450lbs, my mortality rate was significantly higher then as opposed to now as a 250lb guy fully managing his diabetes with only a keto diet and exercise. So if keto kills me at 75, that is a hell of a lot better than diabetes killing me at 55. It’s also a lot tastier than a vegetarian low carb diet hat might squeeze in an extra 2 years.