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>Most Americans could not sustain a ketogenic diet for any amount of time Why not?

• LanceH 11y ago
  Because they grew up with a ton of grains on the bottom of the officially government sponsored food pyramid.
  • Spivak 11y ago
    That isn't the real reason, it's that the bottom of that food pyramid is cheap, they're used everywhere as fillers, and they make that cheap food more palatable. It can't be national policy because there's a huge portion of the population that couldn't afford that diet.
• acconrad 11y ago
  Because most people of any culture can't stick to restrictive diets [1]. Restricting calories is ultimately the goal - how you do it is largely irrelevant, outside of eating mostly whole, unprocessed foods. When you apply further restrictions, people (up to 66% of them) rebound and gain the weight back (or more). [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17469900 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17469900