I keep hearing about a lot people making the switch to a high fat, low carb diet. Is this the latest diet fad or is their new scientific studies on this type of diet?
I keep hearing about a lot people making the switch to a high fat, low carb diet. Is this the latest diet fad or is their new scientific studies on this type of diet?
Latest fad diet? Atkins would like to have a word with you.
It's a ketonic diet. Read up on ketosis.
My parents were on the Atkins high-fat diet when I was a kid. That was more than 40 years ago.
I did it for a while. It's a great way to lose weight because it's very satiating. I didn't find it to be very healthful though, bacon, pork rinds, salami, and cheese just never seemed like a good way to go, so as soon as I lost about 10 pounds I went vegetarian, so now I'm high carb low fat. Blood test numbers are looking a bit better now, although Keto never really had any true adverse reactions, I was just worried about 20 years down the road.
Howard Dean wrote:
Latest fad diet? Atkins would like to have a word with you.
Atkins? William Banting would to have a word with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bantingbuckry wrote:
I didn't find it to be very healthful though, bacon, pork rinds, salami, and cheese just never seemed like a good way to go.
Really poor food choices. There are better, more healthy ways to do ketogenic diets.
That might be true, but I was part of a keto community and that's the direction they all leaned so that's what I was eating. I don't think we're talking about any major kind of health benefits though, bacon is bad, but long term I don't think grass fed beef is any better. I'm happy with my choices as a vegetarian.
Stagger Lee wrote:
Atkins? William Banting would to have a word with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting
That wiki link says nothing about high fat, just low carbs. In any case, I wasn't saying Atkins was some sort of pioneer, just that high fat, low carb diets are nothing new.
buckry wrote:
Blood test numbers are looking a bit better now, although Keto never really had any true adverse reactions, I was just worried about 20 years down the road.
I guess that is one of my biggest issues with all of this is that we don't know what the long term effects will be with this type of diet. I listen to a lot of podcasts at work and it seems like every other one has an athlete mention about switching to a ketogenic diet and seeing almost immediate results.
I did it for a spring a couple of years ago to get lean. I wasn't running a whole lot and was more focused on lifting. The results were incredible. I literally had people coming up to me at the pool and asking me what I was doing to look like I did.
Getting in to ketosis was a bit challenging. i had serious brain fog for a couple of days. But after I settled in it, I felt great. I slept well. Tons of energy.
I was stronger.
The reason I stopped? I love junk food too much and decided to trade some abs for some sweets.
But it's really effective at burning fat. It's a very restrictive diet and you have to seriously restrict carbs, or you'll be bouncing in and out of ketosis.
If you want to be buff and ripped, this is the only way to go.
High carb /low fat diet makes you scrawny fat.
McDouble wrote:
buckry wrote:Blood test numbers are looking a bit better now, although Keto never really had any true adverse reactions, I was just worried about 20 years down the road.
I guess that is one of my biggest issues with all of this is that we don't know what the long term effects will be with this type of diet.
But do you know what the long term effects of any kind of diet are?
If you are an ultramarathoner who jogs slow miles for loooooooong distnaces then a ketosis based diet is for you... if not the it will bring you a loot of problems.
Howard Dean wrote:
Stagger Lee wrote:Atkins? William Banting would to have a word with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_BantingThat wiki link says nothing about high fat, just low carbs. In any case, I wasn't saying Atkins was some sort of pioneer, just that high fat, low carb diets are nothing new.
Tim Noakes, a later in life convert to low-carb high-fat (and wow is he a zealot now) calls it the Banting diet and that's what it goes by in South Africa and maybe Australia too. Don't know what Banting himself promoted, but every version of the Banting diet I've seen is definitely high fat.
In the US and I think UK, it's definitely more associated with Atkins. Atkins got it from some guy in the 50s whose name I forget.