RE: Keto: Trendy Instagram Hype Or Serious Nutritional Concept? Sharing My Unpopluar Opinion
I think the reason why the keto hype is doing so well is because of some people who have awesome results on it (like a woman who lost 130 pounds in 18 months!). I've read another article elsewhere where they said that any diet will have similar results, in the beginning at least. They have done studies with low carb and high fat/protein intake versus high carb low fat/protein intake and the results were the same. The issue with carbs (I think) is that most of it nowadays in the Western world is that it is mostly GMO or has pesticides or both. If you'd take these kinds of foods in moderation (preferably organic) there's no issue. However, if you chug down huge plates of pasta made of GMO/high pesticide grains, yeah well, that's when the problems start.
I don't believe in the high fat diets. However, I do use about one teaspoon of coconut oil a day (raw) and feel a lot better for it. And carbs I like to get from fruit and vegetables mostly.
And you're right, if people learn to listen to their bodies, you never need a diet. However with all the crap that people eat these days, their ability to listen to their bodies also disappears.
That's why pregnant women crave certain things during their pregnancy: it's their body telling them they need a certain nutrient because they're lacking it. If everyone could just have the craving body like a pregnant woman LOL. With my eldest daughter I was chugging down a gallon of home made lemon iced tea, without any sugar each day! So I am pretty sure my body was telling me to hydrate and get those vitamin C's!
The question is: which side effects did that woman who lost 130 pounds in 18 month face? How's her liver doing after that fat-therapy? Which story does the blood count tell?
Losing weight can't be the only and ultimate goal, it has to be: living healthy and staying in shape.
A body is like a vehicle that will conduct us through this one and only life. Sometimes people spend a fortune on the very best oil for their cars and then go check-in at McDonald's drive-in.
Education is everything.
Thanks for stopping by @misslasvegas :-)
Very true, losing that much weight in such a short period of time isn't always healthy. However, staying that heavy for that long isn't either. I guess it was choosing the best of two bad situations. She did a couple of videos after she lost that weight and I have to say she looks great and says she feels amazing. Maybe she didn't eat those huge amounts of fat and meat and still kept eating lots of vegetables...And yes, that is a great example about the oil and McDonalds. In Holland, where nearly everything can be reached by bicycle, it always struck me how some people would spend huge amounts on health centre subscriptions, drive to the gym to get on a bicycle... I think with the Keto diet, they just drove it too far. If you look at their food pyramid, it would tell the average person that it's OK to eat huge amounts of meat and nearly as many fats. Then the vegetables are very low...This can never be right and people with some common sense could probably figure this out. However, people nowadays don't have common sense any more and trust new trends blindly without even doing some due diligence. So I completely agree: education is everything.
Very well said. Often one of the main problems is the lack of common sense. Also people don't have the time for (or better said: don't want to invest so much time in) educating themselves about healthy and sustainable nutrition. They just follow the next hype like:
What they forget about is that all these celebs are paid for their promotion. Supposedly none of them would ever effectively go on keto for the above mentioned reasons.
Thanks for your time, I really enjoy this conversation.
Btw, after having a quick look at your blog I decided to follow you :-)
I enjoy it too. It's great to have conversations with people who are willing to look past whatever they have in front of them and see through these trends that are everywhere. I believe now more than ever, people are being influenced by Hollywood and the next trend these entertainers follow.
It used to be girls that ended up anorexic due to the unrealistic image super-models and actresses portrayed. But nowadays it's even more dangerous because the internet, social media like Twitter and Facebook and such just seems to be full with people who are very good at telling others how they should look. Having a teenage daughter and another one getting there soon enough, I am very much aware of this and I am terrified to be honest because you can't watch them 24/7.
So I hope by informing them as much as I can all the time, that somewhere down the line they will filter things
out that can benefit them and by showing them that I trust them to make the right decisions when faced with peer pressure and such.
It's always an ongoing battle. I even got rid of the TV for that very reason, it's really all rubbish they're showing.
Thank you for the follow, I really appreciate that! We did meet briefly at last year's Steemfest, but yeah very briefly :) I did enjoy your talk then.