I'm no nutritionist, but I do want to caution people that the whole "One study says X" news article thing so many news outlets do paints an inaccurate picture of how research should really be looked at. An individual study isn't that meaningful outside of the context of the larger body of literature, and you really shouldn't take individual studies on their own as life advise. Either study the literature more broadly to get a better picture of what the majority of studies are showing, or if you'd prefer not to minor in food sciences, talk to a nutritionist.
Its honestly hard for me to believe studies anymore. Even if you're making the study and you're not skewing the study yourself to get the result you want (which people totally do) news companies can easiky skew it FOR you and come up with more dramatic results pretty much regardless of what you said.
You really shouldn't be looking at the news article to begin with, go straight to the primary literature.
I swear I see this exact headline every few years.
I swear I have seen a headline for basically any diet will shorten our lifespans. The only winning move is not to eat I guess.
But that'll shorten your lifespan to about 3 weeks.
Catch 22, that will shorten our lifespan the most.
I mean, even breathing oxygen slowly kills us due to free radicals being created and causing neurotoxicity, amongst other things. There are some reasonable precautions we can take such as not eating too many sugars or carbohydrates and not eating too much red meat, but at the end of the day, it's best just to eat something approaching a balanced diet and you'll probably not suffer for it too much.
Except our impact on the environment depending on the food we are producing.
That's very true. One of the reasons I switched to a pescitarian diet (fish and dairy only) is due to how surface run-off from abbatoirs and cows' effluent emissions containing methane have a significant effect on the environment.
These fad diets such as keto or whatever should just die. Dunno what’s so complicated about just sticking to a traditional, balanced diet.
Keto diet isn't a fad in that it doesn't work, in fairness. Inducing ketosis genuinely does reduce weight. I can't imagine it's good for us, but it is effective at what it sets out to do. Same can be said for the Atkins diet - high protein and fat with low carbs does help with controlling weight, but fat is pretty bad for us, especially if it is not monosaturated. However, despite the common misconception, fat doesn't contain as many calories by weight as carbs do.
Isn't industrial fishing a huge strain on the environment also, with non-catch that it kills in droves and the nets that are never collected causing damage for hundreds of years
Well the thing is compared to other diets. Keto actually works and gets shit done quicker than other diets. in terms of burning off fat due to Ketosis. (Reference, done it multiple times, dropped my weight from 270lb to around 220-230lb)
Though i wouldn't recommended it as a "Life-style" type diet. Its more of a way to get to your weight goal the quickest, and then once you get to your target weight. You switch to a more balanced diet that won't throw you back to your original weight.
That or the other purpose is for building muscle quickly and gaining more energy to be used for working out. Due to the high intake of protein that is a part of the diet. If i recall correctly. I consumed at least 200-250 grams of Protein daily. Chicken and Protein Shakes Galore...
Talk to a dietitian, not a nutritionist. Dietitians are scientists, whereas literally anyone can call themselves a nutritionist as it's not a legally protected name.
Actually getting into ketosis is hard for most people because it requires you to follow a pretty strict and monitored diet. Keto is a pretty extreme diet of like 10% carbs, and 20% proteins. It's such that if you're not being completely loyal to the regimen it can be counter productive since you also need to keep your proteins low for ketosis. For most people, it's a lot easier to just be low carb, or at the very least mindful of your carb intake.
Its mostly high in its amount due to my body-size/muscle-size, and also because i was building muscle at the time. If i were doing keto and not doing weightlifting, that protein amount would probably be lower and more "Normal".
Absolutely. Fishing is terrible for the environment, but just not as terrible as bovine farming, for example, as cows actually product something like 15% of Australia's greenhouse gases, for instance. Fishing is still not a good thing and eating fish is not ideal, but there's no way I could be a vegetarian, so I do what I can. There's also moral reasons for me not eating pigs/cows, especially since I saw how lovely pigs can be and how intelligent they are.
It's not just hard for most people - it's EXTREMELY hard. I think it's even less than 10% of carbs. I believe I read that you can't have more than 5g of carbs a day, and that's so absurd. However, I was simply commenting on the fact that it does technically work and is genuinely achievable if one works for it. I'd still recommend simply cutting down on carbs and sugars though.
Please read my subsequent post. Commercial fishing has nowhere near the impact on Climate Change that bovine farming does due to how cows produce so much methane, the most significant greenhouse gas in terms of its effect on our atmosphere.
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These are dead zones created from Agricultural runoff.
At least with Commercial fishing when its regulated, you try to catch a certain amount so the population can still grow back normally.
Compared to Agricultural runoff which kills everything due to Algae blooms.
Ecological damage and Climate Change are inextricably linked anyway, so I obviously care about deforestation and the destruction of our oceans. Trees absorb CO2 and so does algae, two things being destroyed by ecological damage. Saying this, however, I still think Climate Change is a more pressing concern than certain ecological concerns, even though they're both huge problems we should be doing more to address.
Problem is that we're going to have to keep fishing in order to keep up with the demand of food.
And its been shown if we keep fishing regulated and controlled, it can be sustainable. Though at the same time, this will have to be used in tandem with the use of Vertical farming and other near-future agricultural methods such as lab-grown meat. The reason why agricultural run off should be halted/minimized as soon as possible is due to feeding algae blooms. That cause the destruction of ocean ecosystems that could possibly have a chain reaction and fuck up the entirety of the world ocean's ecosystem.
Like yeah you're fishing, but you're not flat out obliterating the entire ecosystem of the fish. Which is what these dead zones are.
The only advice that health professionals and nutritionists can unequivocally agree on is to eat a varied diet. They're probably just as sick of these studies as everyone else is. Just eat food.
Fat doesn't actually clog the arteries. Actually fat is used as a way to line the inner walls of blood vessels and arteries as a protective measure against other things. Which is sugar and carbohydrates. The problem with this is that this damage tends to accumulate overtime if you eat a high amount of carbohydrates. So back in the 19th and 20th century. When they opened up hearts and arteries from patients who died of heart-attacks. They found the walls of the vessels lined with fat, so at the time, this began the common misconception that fat is the cause of heart attacks and other health problems that come from the build up of plaque. Not realizing the plaque is caused by fat building up to protect the blood vessels from sugars and carbs.
Fat isn't the problem here, its the consumption of too much carbs. Carbs are pretty much a more complex version of regular fat molecules. Because of this, your body has to spend more energy into breaking down the Carbs. The benefit of it being broken down is the release of a large amount of energy. Which is why you'd often see weightlifters or other athletes eat high-carb meals before workouts or exercising. This is why people get fat when consuming carbohydrates, they aren't putting enough energy into breaking down the molecules. Causing them to become overweight and cause build up of plaque in the arteries.
Like your body needs saturated and unsaturated fats, its healthy to consume them. As is with carbohydrates, but consuming a high amount of carbohydrates and not producing enough energy to break them down will cause it to pretty much stockpile in your fat reserves. Making you overweight and leading risk to health problems.
better to live shorter but more quality than to drag around and be useless for 20 years
healthspan >power gap>dogshit>even bigger power gap>lifespan
it's all in the proportion. You want preferably 1:1
Well one evidence is me losing weight.
And being far healthier as of now, compared to me eating bread and other junk when i was younger.
Anyways here's some research on the topic
Low-Carbohydrate Diets | The Nutrition Source | Harvard T.H. Cha..
"Research shows that a moderately low-carbohydrate diet can help the
heart, as long as protein and fat selections come from healthy sources."
A 20-year prospective study of 82,802 women looked at the relationship between lower carbohydrate diets and heart disease; a subsequent study looked at lower carbohydrate diets and risk of diabetes. Women who ate low-carbohydrate diets that were high in vegetable sources of fat or protein had a 30 percent lower risk of heartdisease (4) and about a 20 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes, (34) compared to women who ate high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets. But women who ate low-carbohydrate diets that were high in animal fats or proteins did not see any such benefits. (4,34)
More evidence of the heart benefits from a lower-carbohydrate approach comes from a randomized trial known as the Optimal Macronutrient Intake Trial for Heart Health (OmniHeart). (35) A healthy diet that replaced some carbohydrate with protein or fat did abetter job of lowering blood pressure and “bad” LDL cholesterol than a healthy, higher-carbohydrate diet.Similarly, the small “EcoAtkins” weight loss trial compared a low-fat, high-carbohydrate vegetarian diet to a low-carbohydrate vegan diet that was high in vegetable protein and fat. While weight loss was similar on the two diets, study subjects who followed the low-carbohydrate “EcoAtkins” diet saw improvements in blood lipids and blood pressure. (36)
And a gigantic compiled list of Low-carb research.
Low Carb Diet Studies.xlsx
Also to point out. Im not exactly demonizing carbohydrates here. More so of explaining that saturated, unsaturated fat, and healthy carbs are fine and have been "Demonized" for being the cause of obesity and weight-gain. In reality, its the consumption of a high amount of carbohydrates and sugar that leads to obesity and the build up of plaque in the system.
I'm not going to argue which one is worse, they're both terrible for the environment, but even if eating fish was sustainable I still wouldn't eat it anyway. Too much mercury and shit in them from pollution.
Ketosis would be a state you would frequently be in as a hunter gatherer. It is an entirely normal part of human weight regulation and health.
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