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A reminder to those who demonize carbs: as Stephan Guyenet points out, restricting your consumption of any category of food--whether you're avoiding carbs, or f
by jasonhansel 4y ago
A reminder to those who demonize carbs: as Stephan Guyenet points out, restricting your consumption of any category of food--whether you're avoiding carbs, or fat, or meat, or plants--will reliably cause weight loss by removing some highly rewarding/palatable foods from your diet.
So we shouldn't be surprised that both low-carb and vegetarian diets can produce weight loss, and that many people have had success with each method.
- bluGill 4y agoParticularly the first time when you don't know how to make low carb brownies, and other high calories things that otherwise fit into your diet.
- spaetzleesser 4y agoThat's my theory too. Almost any diet will work because people will have a more controlled and thoughtful approach to eating vs the average diet where people eat all kinds of crap and too much.
- joobus 4y agoYou're missing a very key point of this work: > Carbohydrate restriction is currently the only whole-foods approach that can reverse a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Carbohydrates break down to glucose in the bloodstream, the same as pure sugar. For a large and growing number of people, low-carb diets are not simply a means of weight loss.
- nradov 4y agoRight. Virta Health has shown success in reversing type-2 diabetes with nutritional ketosis. https://www.virtahealth.com/research https://www.virtahealth.com/research
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoAnecdata here, but keto reversed my type-2 diabetes. Went from an A1C of 6.5 to 5.4 in ~4 months.
- drycobbler 4y ago