Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "This is what the keto diet does to your body | Professor Christopher Gardner" video.
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Exactly this. I don't maintain strict keto, I eat low carb, high healthy fats. Eggs, avocado, vegetables, pasture raised dairy and meat in moderation, limited fruit, berries if I want them (I love blueberries or blackberries on full fat Greek yogurt)
I eat very limited grains, effectively none. I do eat some unprocessed carbs, for example, occasional garbanzo beans oven roasted to golden brown and crisp are great on a salad or with a meal but they're an accent, 20-30g no more.
I avoid processed foods like the plague that they are. I don't use pro-inflammatory vegetable or seed oils, avoid foods with added sugar and most GMO foods. If I really want a treat I'll have it and go back to the way I eat right away. A treat would be something I bake or high quality vanilla bean gelato. I don't crave it but I do love it and I know that we can have celebratory foods if we have them rarely and if they don't trigger us to continue eating.
I learned this from Dr Jason Fung; we don't have to be rigid, instead work towards consistency. If I eat healthily 98% of the time, get exercise and good sleep, in the absence of any condition that would preclude it or trigger more eating, I can have an ice cream or some bread or a dessert at a celebration. He talks about going on a cruise with his family and eating the cruise food. When he got back he had gained some weight. He stepped up the fasting and carb restriction and lost it right away before his body began to treat it as his new set point.
I've lost over 100 pounds and I bike 20 miles most days. I was disabled for over ten years due to some bad things that happened to me but I'm healthy now and I want the lost career and life time back. I know I can't have that but I can do everything to be as healthy as I can into my 50s and beyond.
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@bobadams7654 but I know the benefits of keto or low carb, high healthy fat. It's what I follow. This channel has a strong vegan or vegetarian bias. I'm not against that, you can eat a vegetarian diet and be healthy it's just not ideal for most. It isn't ideal for me. When they present keto or low carb high fat as eating lots of meat and not eating vegetables that's a misrepresentation.
For example, I eat a couple of eggs with spinach, cherry tomatoes or mushrooms or some other vegetable and half an avocado. That would be my break fast (not breakfast) meal on most days. I might have some almond flour and seed crackers that I bake myself with it. For dinner I have 3 to 4 oz of wild caught salmon or some other kind of fish, once or twice a week I might have grass-fed beef. With it I'll make oven roasted string beans in balsamic reduction or brussel sprouts, spinach or some other kind of greens.
Or I'll eat a big salad meal, lots of different color lettuces, spinach, radicchio, cherry tomatoes, perhaps some cucumber or sprouts, half an avocado, a little feta, and a couple of ounces of some sort of protein. Dressing is always a homemade vinaigrette with red wine vinegar and olive oil, teaspoon of Dijon mustard to emulsify it and whatever herbs I have on hand. Or just salt and pepper in the vinaigrette.
That's pretty much what I eat. I fast for 16 hours each day and I drink a lot of water. I eat yogurt a couple of times a week, full fat unsweetened Greek yogurt with whatever berries happen to be available. I'm sure my diet could use some tweaking but I think it's probably reasonable.
I wish the keto or low carb high fat community and the vegetarian or vegan community would work together more. I think the two have a lot more in common than they realize. Both avoid fast food, both eat real food, both want people to eat healthy food instead of fast food, processed food, added sugars and processed pro-inflammatory oils. You can eat some animal products responsibly. You can't eat McDonald's or fast food responsibly, it's bad for your body, bad for animals and bad for the planet. We all agree on that, it would be much better if we worked together.
I should also acknowledge that one of the presenters on this channel speaks in a way that I find condescending and irritating. That probably affects my willingness to listen. If you still think there is information offered that would be beneficial for me I'll give it another go. Thank you.
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@oakstrong1 I get what you're saying but there is frequently a tendency on the part of vegetarians and vegans to demonize and or misrepresent keto/ low carb, high fat. They often misrepresent it as being lots and lots of meat when it isn't. Some of the videos on this channel have shown that tendency, a very strong vegetarian/vegan bias. For that reason I took the comment at face value. I'm going to watch the whole video, I'll give it a chance. You're right, it's not a religion and it shouldn't be taken that way. Also vegetarians and low carb, high fat people have more in common than otherwise. They differ on the topic of animal products but they don't differ on avoiding processed foods, processed grains, added sugars, artificial sweeteners, processed vegetable and seed oils that are very high in pro-inflammatory omega-6, and eating real food.
They differ to an extent on what comprises real food. I eat eggs from pasture raised hens, dairy products from pasture raised cows, wild caught salmon and a limited amount of meat from grass-fed cows. But I also eat a lot of vegetables, greens, avocado, berries and a limited amount of organic beans and legumes.
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@oakstrong1 Are you addressing your comment to me? I have now said several times that the keto/low carb high fat and vegetarian or vegan community have a lot in common and should work together.
These so-called gurus? Let's see, Dr Jason Fung, he's written several books, has been a respected nephrologist for a couple of decades and has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people by reversing type 2 diabetes through diet. I assume you are aware that type 2 diabetes can be reversed in people? Some individuals who have done this have commented above. He has also helped hundreds of thousands lose weight and restore their health. Is that adequate? How about Professor Emeritus Dr Robert Lustig? He's also written several books and has practiced medicine for decades. Both are well respected doctors, not chiropractors, not gurus and neither of them sells supplements to the public. Neither of them have a storefront or take advantage of their influence. You can buy their books but they aren't the guru types you're thinking of, people who make a living preying on the gullible. Not exactly what you were expecting? Do yourself a favor and don't assume that everyone out there is an idiot who watches a video and then embraces the content of that video as a religion.
The main point of the keto and low carb high healthy fat way of eating is to avoid processed foods, avoid added sugar, avoid pro-inflammatory vegetable and seed oils and reduce the abundance of carbohydrates in the standard American diet in favor of healthy fats, healthy proteins and vegetables.
I have an advanced degree and I did my due diligence. It is irritating to receive a comment like yours that is based on nothing other than assumptions. You could have asked questions, you could have read my comments more carefully and understood my approach from those comments rather than assuming the worst.
And yes, I do think that this or that person who is the leading this or that are absolutely subject to their own biases. In every discipline, every single one this happens. Further, there is no such thing as an ideal human diet. Some people thrive on a vegetarian regimen others do not. The fact that an individual is the leading Oxford whatever does not render them impervious to pressure and prejudice. The appeal to authority logical fallacy is an obvious one.
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