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Originally Posted by #-3

I'm gonna tap out here, not going to win against the converted in this forum. Like I said annoying as hell fad diets are one area where calling people on their pseudoscience isn't acceptable in society yet.

I particularly get sick of people taking weak correlations, with alternative known causal impacts and claiming they have science behind them, then proselytizing there BS to everyone who will listen.

Nobody anywhere is arguing that if the average north american cuts allot of sugar out of their diet they will be healthier.

The names of science and evidence just shouldn't be used in this way, its a gateway drug to other BS; juicing cleanses, chiropractor, cupping, needling, and then you have some acupressure quack telling my mom he can cure her allergies with juice, or a naturopath telling your uncle that he will cure his cancer with imaginary mercury in his water. And I think its important that anyone starts down this path is at least warned, so they can see the signs when it escalates.

Leave those two words out of it and eat whatever the hell you want if you think it will help you control your weight or energy...

So, in your mind, you saw a thread about keto diet, and you decided to post here to do what exactly? To try to convert people, or just hate the idea that people are losing weight despite the ingrained social mantra that fat = bad? Does someone eating 4 strips of bacon and saying he is losing weight makes your blood boil or something?

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition...tosis#section1

Ketosis is a metabolic state, it's not a diet or pseudo science. It's a real state. A keto diet is the idea of promoting ketosis as a tool to burn fat.

Oh and just because, science.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23651522

The present meta-analysis aimed to investigate whether individuals assigned to a VLCKD (i.e. a diet with no more than 50 g carbohydrates/d) achieve better long-term body weight and cardiovascular risk factor management when compared with individuals assigned to a conventional low-fat diet (LFD; i.e. a restricted-energy diet with less than 30% of energy from fat).

Individuals assigned to a VLCKD achieve a greater weight loss than those assigned to a LFD in the longterm; hence, a VLCKD may be an alternative tool against obesity.

Honestly, cannot expect anything less from someone who can't differentiate between ketosis and ketoacidosis and provides diabetic studies on ketoacidosis as arguments against the keto diet...one has the name acid in the middle, while the other does not.