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>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

>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.

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.