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Since about 2010 heart disease has been on the rise again after decades of decline, which seems to coincide with the craze in keto type diets. Sugar consumption

Since about 2010 heart disease has been on the rise again after decades of decline, which seems to coincide with the craze in keto type diets. Sugar consumption has declined slightly over that same time period.

sleepingadmin 5y ago
>Since about 2010 heart disease has been on the rise again after decades of decline, Curious, not sure I know exactly what this graph looks like. Also looking for this, it's hard to find. Some graphs certainly show an increase since 2000. But they are poor sources I wont share. As a Canadian, I find this source acceptable. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/report-heart-disease-Canada-2018.html https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications... Which this source and others say the opposite. That the problem is getting better. Keto's re-emergence was in 2017 or so. So not really included in the data. Keto is also not a widely accepted diet, so impossible to account for in wide data like this. >which seems to coincide with the craze in keto type diets. Sugar consumption has declined slightly over that same time period. Take this for example: Again 2016... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5040825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5040825/ Or a more recent one: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30549-0/fulltext https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30549-0/fulltex... Modern science is very clear that it's sugar that is causing cardiovascular disease.
- brandonmenc 5y ago
  I was using American numbers. Keto is pretty popular here - the Atkins diet exploded in popularity in the early 2000s. I don't think it's "clear" that sugar causes cardiovascular disease. I think what is clear is that obesity plus inactivity are overwhelmingly the main causes at a population level. Obesity can result from eating lots of sugar and/or from eating lots of fat. But just about every population level study shows that consuming red meat increases cardiovascular disease. We'll have to check in a decade or two from now to see what effects keto-style diets have on cardiovascular disease but as tasty as they are, I'm not going to take my chances with one. Everything in moderation.

sleepingadmin 5y ago

>Since about 2010 heart disease has been on the rise again after decades of decline, Curious, not sure I know exactly what this graph looks like. Also looking for this, it's hard to find. Some graphs certainly show an increase since 2000. But they are poor sources I wont share. As a Canadian, I find this source acceptable. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/report-heart-disease-Canada-2018.html https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications... Which this source and others say the opposite. That the problem is getting better. Keto's re-emergence was in 2017 or so. So not really included in the data. Keto is also not a widely accepted diet, so impossible to account for in wide data like this. >which seems to coincide with the craze in keto type diets. Sugar consumption has declined slightly over that same time period. Take this for example: Again 2016... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5040825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5040825/ Or a more recent one: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30549-0/fulltext https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30549-0/fulltex... Modern science is very clear that it's sugar that is causing cardiovascular disease.

brandonmenc 5y ago
I was using American numbers. Keto is pretty popular here - the Atkins diet exploded in popularity in the early 2000s. I don't think it's "clear" that sugar causes cardiovascular disease. I think what is clear is that obesity plus inactivity are overwhelmingly the main causes at a population level. Obesity can result from eating lots of sugar and/or from eating lots of fat. But just about every population level study shows that consuming red meat increases cardiovascular disease. We'll have to check in a decade or two from now to see what effects keto-style diets have on cardiovascular disease but as tasty as they are, I'm not going to take my chances with one. Everything in moderation.