I don't want to leave you in suspense.
The answer IS:
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Mechanick recommends minimizing your intake of two types of carbs – sugars and starches – while boosting another: fiber. High-fiber foods, including vegetables, low-glycemic index fruits, beans and nuts, are instrumental to a healthy eating pattern, he said.
"If you can get it up to seven to 10 servings a day, that's great," he said. "You can't do that with the keto diet."
Keto diet isn’t the answer for weight loss, experts say. Here’s what is
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It is a new tactic! They are
admitting we should lower our carbs! I don't think there's an emoticon for Evil Laugh (and why not) but I'll do it anyway.
BWAHAHAHAHA.
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"In theory, the keto diet basically mimics starvation," Mechanick said. "If you don't eat carbohydrates but you eat an excessive amount of fat and protein, you're still going to waste tissue. Tissue is still going to burn off."
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I'd like to note here that we all know such experts like to pretend "an excessive amount of fat and protein" is basically ANY. Any at all. I think I have somewhat unique circumstances that might drive my own needs higher than average, such as healing from serious illness, recognition of how neurotransmitters and neurohormones affect my mental state, and a very low carb/fiber tolerance. I basically RUN on fat and get protein according to my needs.
This horrifies them because it's the total opposite of what they think I need. But they are so wrong. I joke about being a mutant, but come on. I'm not grown in a lab by some Baron with too much time on their hands. I was born on
this planet.
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Yes, you might experience weight loss on the keto diet, but that might not actually be good for you, considering what you give up.
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Oh, riiiiiiiiight. I gave up 40 pounds of fat just last year. I'm a shadow of my former self! And I still have muscle, my saggy parts are UNsagging, and when I'm well enough to do more activity, this will only improve, I'm sure.
But don't worry, while that paragraph is in the middle, they conclude with this:
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Malik urges people trying to lose weight to target foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables and nuts, while limiting saturated fat, added sugar and added sodium. Balance those practices with daily physical exercise, and you've established a solid base for weight loss and a healthy lifestyle.
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Confused yet? Isn't this the same-old, only now with nuts? They are still preaching against saturated fat. They don't even mention any other source of fat, either. So it's the eat-eat-eat-because-I'm-so-hungry plan, and try to exercise it OFF, basically. But now they have thrown in a soothing placebo in case no one loses much on this "plan."
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The answer might not be a traditional "diet" at all, but there are changes you can make to shed weight while leading a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.
The importance comes in the quality of the foods you eat, not necessarily the number of calories you consume, Malik said. She favors eating patterns that don't abide by a restrictive calorie count, because they generally help people stick with the pattern longer.
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Yay! We get to stop counting calories! Whew, the relief. I can hear the cries of joy now.
And you won't get results right away, you bunch of whiners. Just eat the way they say! And it will work!
Trust us. Eat some nuts. Not too much. More fiber. Fiber will fill you up. Did you get your 7-10 servings of High-fiber foods yet?
What intrigues me is how they would be appalled at my low-low fiber diet, which is not unique to me. Even Diet Doctor offers lists of low-carb, high fiber vegetables to help people with constipation. My experience suggests this may be off-base for some. I follow the ideas of the "Fiber Menace" researcher at
Gutsense.org and have always been the better for it.
So I anticipate Our Sainted Experts doubling down on the fiber thing, especially the kind of fiber that can't be digested. Hello!
If I have digestive troubles the last thing I need is to eat more things I can't digest!
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Reducing your intake of carbs, as the keto diet does, goes hand-in-hand with reducing intake of whole grains, fruits and some vegetables, which raises red flags for health professionals.
"That's where I get a little concerned about the keto diet," Vasanti Malik, adjunct assistant professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told USA TODAY.
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My bold, because everyone should know Harvard has been infested with vegans.
I feel that they are still being led astray by epidemiological studies. This is supposed to lead to avenues of inquiry; not taken as a given. Because, after decades of being told health-conscious people should build their diets on
whole grains, fruits and vegetables, guess what? Health-conscious people do that; along with working out, taking vitamins, and
not smoking, drinking to excess, or throwing themselves on the couch with a giant bag of snack food.
Health-conscious people also go to the doctor, and as our population ages into the prescription-immersed middle period of their lives, they will do everything "right" and still be sick.
We've never done this before, you know: we've never grabbed a population, designed drugs for every symptom that occurs with chronic disease from eating all the wrong things, and the overwhelming numbers will keep making cement-headed authorities, bribed with all the processed food/drug money, consider it "normal" because "It happens to everyone! It's just aging! Shut up!"
Or so I've been told