Documentary on Keto and the Global Health Crisis

<blockquote><a href="#269373"><em>In reply to PincasX:</em></a></blockquote><p>I'm guessing you've never read any of the scientific literature or respected guides on keto or LCHF eating? Because the vegetables keto folks eat don't have carbs in them – or at least, few enough that the dietary fiber compensates. The general rule, especially if you're not super-strict, is if it's above ground, green, and leafy, it's fair game.</p><p><br></p><p>The idea that meat has little nutritional (rather than caloric) density is false. In fact, you could eat nothing BUT meat and, as long as you incorporated organ tissues (something everyone used to do before we were told not to) you would have absolutely zero nutritional deficiencies. There are cultures that did exactly this and suffered no ill consequences of disease or malnutrition, unlike those cultures that went largely vegetarian and suffered increase risk of stroke and other "diseases of civilization."</p><p><br></p><p>Advocating a vegetable-heavy diet makes little sense in the context of what we know about human evolution and seasonally-available plant calories. None of the plants that you think of as good, natural, healthy vegetables existed before humans created them, and even their significantly-lower-calorie precursors were only available for a tiny portion of the year. Before agriculture and the accompanying decline in general health + population explosion (more calories for more population but less nutrition in a grain/starch-heavy diet), starches simply could not be consumed consistently. The human body evolved in this food environment, and it is therefore poorly equipped (as the epidemic of diabetes, cancer, and everything else would indicate) to handle heavy carb loads the whole year 'round. So, if pre-agriculture caveman Thurrott wasn't eating potatoes, apples, oranges, bananas, and carrots all year, what was he eating? Well, a considerable portion of the time, he wasn't eating at all. He had gorged himself as much as possible the previous autumn when the limited number of naturally-occurring fruits/vegetables were available, and was largely living off of his own body fat in between meals. What were those meals? Why, he was eating organisms whose bodies and digestive systems had already been specially adapted to make use of the vastly abundant plant matter that caveman Thurrott's body couldn't.</p><p><br></p><p>I really advise you read up on the subject, particularly the validity of the science that has been used to prop up the modern dietary orthodoxy. To say it will make you angry is putting it mildly. If you've lost loved-ones to cancer, heart disease, or metabolic syndrome, you're going to be a bit MORE than angry. If you're interested, I will look through my library and pick a few suggestions.</p>

<blockquote><a href="#271168"><em>In reply to PincasX:</em></a></blockquote><p>Actually… I learned a lot of those "talking points" before I learned about keto. It's blindingly obvious that SOMETHING is wrong with the current dietary paradigm even if you're completely ignorant of the more recent science. When the medical advice consistently fails, hard, across the board, to address the issues it's supposed to fix, well… that's when you chuck your hypothesis and start over even if you don't know why. And that's just on a society-wide level. After watching my parents and many other people religiously follow the dietary and exercise guidelines for decades, I have decades of first-hand evidence that they're a pile of crap with a few distinguished medical degrees for garnish – no offense to your dietician friends. After less than 6 months of LCHF I know that it works, and for more than just weight control – although I do love being the size I was in highschool again. Getting a full lipid profile this June with the max-detail cholesterol breakdown… should be interesting. Wish I could justify an artery scan to directly measure sclerotic buildup, but I believe they're expensive. Either way I have my hopes, but of course the numbers will tell the real story. I would hate to have to eat my words, especially because it will mean that nobody has a damn clue how the body works, not even the "rebels." The real proof in the pudding will be long-term. Only way to find out is to try. </p>