Re:Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for ...
by overgard on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:52AM
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People are on ketogenic diets for years and even decades with no adverse affects. There's nothing wrong with getting energy from other sources, your body can manage it fine.
Re:Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for ...
by fc417fc802 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:02AM
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Ketogenic diets are high fat. I suggested that a diet where the bulk of your calories comes from protein (not lipids, carbohydrates, or simple sugars) was probably not great for your health.
Your body can certainly "manage" on a high protein low fat low carb diet but I don't understand it to be good for you.
You have to get your calories (ie raw energy) from somewhere. If you limit saturated fat to 10% then what's left for the other 90% is (roughly speaking) unsaturated fat, simple sugars, carbohydrates (ie complex sugars), and protein. In terms of long term habits converting protein to calories is probably not a great choice for your health. If you decide to go for complex carbohydrates over various oils then vegetables that provide those are a good option.