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Oh shit, you brought up Jordan Peterson!
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It works to drop weight, but is it actually healthier for you? Losing weight is hardly the only barometre of health.
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@anon75430791, is this where we say “Welcome to BoingBoing!”?
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Definitely. 
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Congrats on the weight loss, Seamus. Sugar-free diets with daily net carbohydrate intake under 50 grams seem to be popular and successful.
I didn’t go full keto, but I lost 15kg over 16 months on a low carbohydrate diet. I’d love to claim my doctor helped me, but I started seeing him only because he was the only apparent doctor who is a lowcarb proponent (not high fat) not linked to a diabetes nor a bariatric clinic.
I’ve grown out of angering myself from reading vague and overgeneralized diet findings in general interest media, they’re as denatured and far from the real thing as a North American grain snack cracker. Dr. David Ludwig has a science-based response to the small-scale pilot study performed by Dr. Kevin D. Hall and fellow researchers. Canadian nephrologist Dr. Jason Fung brilliantly refutes Hall’s study and concludes his refutation with
The facts alone, without any spin would be this. A ketogenic diet, independent of calories causes fat loss and causes an increase (or at least the stabilization) in [energy expenditure] EE.
About what will kill you, me, us: 70% of all deaths are by chronic disease. The big three in North America are cancer, cardiovascular disease and chronic neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. What we know about these chronic diseases – they are driven by sedentation and malnutrition, poor diet, lack of exercise and underpinning all of these is insulin resistance. All forms of cancer, Alzheimer’s pathology, massive association with insulin resistance. The Homeostat Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) is a simple way of measuring insulin resistance, calculated using the product of your fasting glucose times your fasting insulin. HOMA-IR answers the question “How much insulin does it take when I’m fasting to hold my blood sugar and my fat stores where they are at right now.”
Mostly I find that diet dictocrats are half my age, didn’t lose their parents before they were thirty, don’t know nor share my family history, but they read some four-paragraph dumbed down report of an epidemiology study where the finding in the first paragraph meets their confirmation bias and say “This is proven fact!” I ignore the diet dictocrats. I look at blood glucose, waist-to-height ratio, family history, what’s making the bulk (pun intended) of North Americans fat and prematurely senile and maintain my adapted diet.
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Animals concentrate toxic pollutants in their body fat and organs. The higher up the tropic chain you eat, the more you get, unless you mindfully manage this by being aware of the conditions of your agriculture and meat animals.
Thanks for the links. I found this to resemble personal experience and observation of my family members:
According to a radically different way of thinking, excessive weight gain occurs because fat cells have been triggered to take up and store too many calories, leaving too few for the rest of the body. We overeat in an effort to keep enough calories in the blood stream for the brain, muscles and other vital organs, but those extra calories ultimately wind up in fat cells, creating a vicious cycle of hunger, overeating and weight gain. In other words, overeating is a consequence, not the cause, of an underlying metabolic problem.
I have seen family members go on a keto diet and experience a drastic decrease in hunger coupled with a significant increase in alertness. These were the same people who had seconds of everything and could not stop themselves from consuming all the rice, all the noodles, all the rolls the table held. I believe there’s something to the idea that some sort of blood sugar whiplash is caused in some people by heavy carb consumption, which causes them to eat more.
I’m not changing my diet like my other family member are - though we got rid of carby snacks in the house, and don’t serve carbs with dinner anymore, I will eat noodles when I’m dining out - because neither one of these connected phenomena affected me: I could always say ‘that’s enough rice for me,’ and I have weighed within ten pounds of my current weight for the last decade without any particular concern, let alone food restrictions.
I’m convinced that the worst of the carb craving / obesity problem affects some people more than others. The cognitive affects of a keto diet on some people are even more striking than weight loss.
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Another one of those things people really don’t want to die from.
I’m not sure if anyone else has said this yet but I have a universally useful suggestion for healthy eating: listen to your body.
Did you eat something that gave you heartburn? Maybe less of that. Did you eat something that made you feel lethargic or nauseous? Maybe eat less of that. Did you eat something that made you feel fine today but tomorrow you’re noticing you don’t feel so great? Maybe eat less of that.
Seriously folks, listen to what your body is telling you and it will give you a lot of good advice about what food is good for you and bad for you. obviously you need to know more about food than that but it’s a very good starting point.
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Of course, when your body calls for giant piles of cocaine and mounds of heroine, you start to realize your body has no idea what it’s doing.
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I can do both!
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Simultaneously, even!
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Atkins was hospitalized at 195, and ballooned to 260 before dying, due to fluid retention. I think calling that “died at almost 300 lbs” to be misleading, if not outright false.
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Fair point 
Huh! Apparently I am misinformed. I had read 385, and heard nothing about the water retention.
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