Comment on What are some keto meals that are easy to make in bulk? Bonus points for stuff that can be frozen.

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hmm…

  The ketogenic diet is not considered a benign, holistic, or all-natural treatment. As with any serious medical therapy, it may result in complications, although these are generally less severe and less frequent than with anticonvulsant medication or surgery. […] Supplements are necessary to counter the dietary deficiency of many micronutrients. […] Like many anticonvulsant drugs, the ketogenic diet has an adverse effect on bone health. […] In adolescents and adults, common side effects reported include weight loss, constipation, dyslipidemia, and in women, dysmenorrhea.

  Sounds like you’re right, this diet is something that should be done for specific medical reasons, with professional guidance and with specific goals in mind:

  The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy that in conventional medicine is used mainly to treat hard-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet

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  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes and since op didn’t specify any medical condition I didn’t think it was a wise idea. Idk why my comment is quite so controversial.

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    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re right, but didn’t offer any sources. So it came off more like cluttering up OPs thread with opinion where they’re asking for specific help.

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    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have no idea - counting calories is the safest diet by far and if you’re going to undertake a diet that specifically shifts your metabolism you should be aware of the potential health effects. It’d be really nice if we could snap our fingers and lose 150 lbs over a weekend but fast diets put immense stress on our system.

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      • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yep.

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• devAlot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My doctor said something similar.

  But after years of me being on keto, losing 167lbs, having an “absolutely fantastic health record” and the “healthiest bloodwork” he’s ever seen (his words), plus significant improvement in mood, memory, and mobility, and a significant reduction/elimination of pain and inflammation, he changed his mind.

  He even admitted that most of the content he had heard or read when saying it was “a bad diet” all those years ago was “completely biased” and “worded very slyly” (also his words). After revisiting those sources, he realized they “weren’t actually describing real keto, just people eating a ton of fat” (which is not what keto is), “and crying about how bad fat is” (again, his words… which made me LOL). Also, mega bonus points for him - he actually checked into the sources and found that most of them were funded by the sugar industry.

  It takes nothing to realize you’re wrong; for some people, it takes a lot to admit it. He had no problem doing so, and even recommends the diet to other patients now.

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Keto seems less dangerous than the old Atkins diet. I had a coworker who rapidly shed about 30 lbs and then had a stroke - he was 32.

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  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I used to have a medical manual called Anecdotal Medicine. You’d flip to whatever opinion you wanted to have and there’d be a story right there to back it up! Very handy

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    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s cool - if you prefer impersonal articles or papers to anecdotes here’s one for you:

      medicaldaily.com/atkins-diet-raises-heart-attack-…

      pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074441/

      To me that’s a lot less meaningful than watching a healthy coworker suffer a stroke out of the blue - but to each their own.

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