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This is anecdotal, but I've now lost 20 kg with a ketogenic diet. Started at 110 kg, I now weigh 90 kg after 5 months. I've complemented the diet with a regular

This is anecdotal, but I've now lost 20 kg with a ketogenic diet. Started at 110 kg, I now weigh 90 kg after 5 months. I've complemented the diet with a regular amount of exercise (mostly running). If anyone is interested, http://www.reddit.com/r/keto http://www.reddit.com/r/keto has a nice community of ketoers.

yetanotherphd 13y ago
Do you think that since minority opinions tend to foster a community around then, this also biases people toward minority opinions?
- nanexcool 13y ago
  Not going to argue with a stranger on the internet. Rather I'm gonna go out for a run.
  - yetanotherphd 13y ago
    So you only respond to people who agree with you and dismiss anyone else? That's pathetic. Enjoy your run.
    - nanexcool 13y ago
      No YOU'RE a towel!
- beagle3 13y ago
  ketogenic diets have been shown to help a variety of conditions, obesity on one hand, and epilepsy on the other (although, as far as I know, the mechanism is unknown)
  - guruz 13y ago
    It's interesting how much diet affects people. There's also a diet for Autism/ADHD/.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten-free,_casein-free_diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten-free,_casein-free_diet
    - thomasz 13y ago
      from TFWA >In their report, the AAP found that they could not recommend the use of special diets for children with autism spectrum disorder because of inadequate evidence. > A 2008 systematic review from the Cochrane Library indicates that a gluten-free and/or casein-free diet has not been shown to have any effect on the behavior or functioning of individuals with autism > The systematic review, conducted in 2009, concluded that the results "reveal that the current corpus of research does not support the use of GFCF diets in the treatment of ASD.
      - guruz 13y ago
        I don't know what TFWA or AAP are, but those statements are quite useless. If you have a child with those problems and you want it to be healed, of course you can just try it for some months. If it works great, if it does not what did you lose? Not eating diary/grains is not that hard. (And there's clearly a lot of information on the web about this diet and autism, so it must work for someone)
        oftenwrong 13y ago
        Might as well try prayer healing too. If it works great, if it does not what did you lose?
        guruz 13y ago
        Bad comparison. Don't underestimate the power of the placebo effect :-) But seriously: Say you are suffering some problem. You would not do something because scientific sounding entity x and y say a solution to this problem does not work, but a lot of other people say the solution works? That's not logic/sane behaviour.
        yetanotherphd 13y ago
        When you delete the word "sounding" it becomes very rational behavior.
jacques_chester 13y ago
This is anecdotal, but I've now lost 40kg with a mix of diets, none of which involved worrying about ketosis.

yetanotherphd 13y ago

Do you think that since minority opinions tend to foster a community around then, this also biases people toward minority opinions?

nanexcool 13y ago
Not going to argue with a stranger on the internet. Rather I'm gonna go out for a run.
- yetanotherphd 13y ago
  So you only respond to people who agree with you and dismiss anyone else? That's pathetic. Enjoy your run.
  - nanexcool 13y ago
    No YOU'RE a towel!
beagle3 13y ago
ketogenic diets have been shown to help a variety of conditions, obesity on one hand, and epilepsy on the other (although, as far as I know, the mechanism is unknown)
- guruz 13y ago
  It's interesting how much diet affects people. There's also a diet for Autism/ADHD/.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten-free,_casein-free_diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten-free,_casein-free_diet
  - thomasz 13y ago
    from TFWA >In their report, the AAP found that they could not recommend the use of special diets for children with autism spectrum disorder because of inadequate evidence. > A 2008 systematic review from the Cochrane Library indicates that a gluten-free and/or casein-free diet has not been shown to have any effect on the behavior or functioning of individuals with autism > The systematic review, conducted in 2009, concluded that the results "reveal that the current corpus of research does not support the use of GFCF diets in the treatment of ASD.
    - guruz 13y ago
      I don't know what TFWA or AAP are, but those statements are quite useless. If you have a child with those problems and you want it to be healed, of course you can just try it for some months. If it works great, if it does not what did you lose? Not eating diary/grains is not that hard. (And there's clearly a lot of information on the web about this diet and autism, so it must work for someone)
      - oftenwrong 13y ago
        Might as well try prayer healing too. If it works great, if it does not what did you lose?
        guruz 13y ago
        Bad comparison. Don't underestimate the power of the placebo effect :-) But seriously: Say you are suffering some problem. You would not do something because scientific sounding entity x and y say a solution to this problem does not work, but a lot of other people say the solution works? That's not logic/sane behaviour.
        yetanotherphd 13y ago
        When you delete the word "sounding" it becomes very rational behavior.

jacques_chester 13y ago

This is anecdotal, but I've now lost 40kg with a mix of diets, none of which involved worrying about ketosis.