this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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I'm a little surprised by how much incredulity there is in the comments here. It's amazing that anyone, let alone so many people right now, would think that taking away all the most protective foods (ie., plants in their whole, intact forms, which are almost invariably high carb), and in most cases replacing them with the very substances most strongly associated with our number one killers, cardiovascular disease and cancers, (ie., animal flesh, dairy, and insane amounts of saturated fats), and act surprised when it kills them faster.
https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2020/10/07/13/54/very-low-carbohydrate-and-ketogenic-diets-and-cardiometabolic-risk
Low carb diets do not neglect vegetables, if you're eating a proper low carb diet then about half of your food volume should be coming from things like broccoli, cauliflower, and spinach. https://www.thekitchn.com/10-vegetables-that-are-lower-in-carbs-than-you-think-253337
Low carb diets still eat about 50-75 grams of carbs a day, and that's a lot of broccoli.
I did a keto diet for about a year. Every meal was about 2/3 veggies. The problem with low carb diets is most people don't do them healthy. They see that certain things are listed as ok to eat and they just eat that and don't follow a balanced regimented diet.
That's what I try to explain to my friends. Keto can be looked at two ways.
Red keto - mostly meat, eggs, cheese
Green keto - getting a majority of nutrition from vegetables and avocados, etc
The red keto diet isn't as good for you as green keto is.