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This obsession with extreme diets is a very American phenomenon. The human body will adapt to any diet that's given, it matters very little in practice. Just ea
by mise_en_place 2y ago
This obsession with extreme diets is a very American phenomenon. The human body will adapt to any diet that's given, it matters very little in practice. Just eat sensibly and listen to your body. That's pretty much it. Queue the hucksters and grifters who say "avoid X!", while they themselves are on high doses of rHGH, TRT, AAS, etc
- rootusrootus 2y agoI agree that for most people a regular diet is probably just fine, and the right choice. However, it takes very little looking to see that there is interest in keto in the UK, for example: https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/nutrition/ask-the-expert/keto-diet-weight-loss https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-maga... The vast, vast majority of people I know in real life (in the US, in case it is not obvious) have exactly zero interest in any kind of extreme diet. The ones that do tend to be louder, which you may mistake as implying it is a commonly held belief.
- tracker1 2y agoI think most people can handle most diets. I do think that there are influences from things like excess sugar, seed oil and highly processed foods. These are things that are generally hard to study en-masse and take a lot of time. Observational studies are more difficult to get anything convincing from in general. Not to mention differences that take place over generations, like experienced in some cat feeding experiments. "Food" has changed so much in the past 150 years and more around 100 years ago then the history of man before it. Humans are also incredibly adaptive, and experience disease in different ways altogether.