Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "Why raw, paleo and keto diets are stupid" video.

  1.  @saradomim  if you believe that you are created in the image of God, don't you remember that Adam and Eve were given a fruit grain and nut diet, and meat wasn't introduced until later as a result of bad behavior, and then it was supposed to be cooked? Also, does your user name bring honor to the God who created you?
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  2. As a truck driver, portion size doesn't work for me. I can maintain a weight on a balanced carb diet using portion and time control under good conditions, but when things get stressful food becomes a survival item and I start gaining weight, and keto is the only way I can lose weight while sitting on my ass! I do it for a while at a time until I get to a comfortable weight, and then switch back to a balanced mostly vegetarian diet.
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  3.  @austinheyman  just referring to his belief system, and asking how he justifies his position in it!
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  4. I was nodding along until you lumped Keto in with the rest and misrepresented it. For people who do it properly, keto is extremely effective at burning fat, and is the ONLY diet that allows the body to burn stored fat constantly. And yes, most people don't do it for long, which is fine, since it doesn't take long to cut the fat off! Keto works by keeping carbs low enough that the body stops producing insulin. This is important because the presence of insulin blocks the body from being able to break down the stored fat as fuel. Exercise gets around this if you exercise long and hard enough to deplete the blood sugar and insulin, forcing the body to burn fat, but it comes out of ketosis as soon as you eat a snack bar or drink a Gatorade, and fat burn stops. If you are doing proper keto, you are constantly low on blood sugar and insulin, and so your body can access your stored fat constantly, and does. Skinny people on long term keto diets eat lots of fat as their primary energy source, and if they are active people spending all day at the gym they basically have to drink straight fat to keep up with the energy needs. (gross lol) For people like me with plenty of stored fat, keto mainly means limiting my carb intake below the minimum, and trying to keep my fat intake low, that way my body has to burn stored fat as it's primary energy source, and the weight comes off even with no exercise, because the body needs a certain number of calories per day even lying in bed (or driving a truck in my case), and so keto is really the ONLY diet where you can lose weight while sitting on your ass, without starving yourself, and still having decent energy levels. Any other diet relies on the high intensity exercises, or basically starving the body, in order to reduce weight, because any diet with carbs in it blocks the ability to burn fat directly. I do agree that it's not sustainable, but if you are doing it as a weight loss tool, then you can stop the madness as soon as you reach your target weight, or get tired of it. After a while in keto, my body lets me know when I need to reintroduce living food and a lighter diet, but I will have lost quite a few pounds by then. Once I am off keto, I will generally be feeling well enough that I am able to control portion size and time to hold the weight level for a while, but then things get stressful etc and I start gaining weight again, and when it gets uncomfortable, I do a round of keto again to get back down to a comfortable weight. So, I do agree that keto is not a good long term lifestyle diet for most people, unless they love gnawing on raw meat every day anyway, and it isn't a particularly healthy diet all told, but it's a very effective weight loss tool when done properly, and understanding how it works and what it does.
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  5.  @The_Crimson_Fucker  I suspect that different people store more fat from different sources. For me, carbs just turn straight to fat, but fat intake doesn't really do anything to me. My fastest weight gain has been when I was eating a lot of fresh fruit, since the fructose is mainly used to create fat. So for me, keto is the only way I can rapidly lose weight, and if I am eating carbs it's difficult to maintain and not gain weight. I also don't like keto, normally don't eat meat, so I only use it to cut weight when I start getting uncomfortably heavy, and then return to a more balanced diet, and my diet is normally very low in fat.
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  6.  @FreshGreenMoss  your experience is based on doing it wrong. Lol
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  7.  @FreshGreenMoss  you are wrong when you say keto doesn't give anyone a weight loss advantage. I am an overworked truck driver, very rarely have time to get out of the truck, and with keto I can lose weight with basically no exercise. I can't do that on a carb diet, because unless I am literally starving myself, my body will never burn the stored fat, because the insulin blocks the ketosis of fat, and as long as you eat carbs, the body produces insulin. Keto is entering the state of ketosis, where the insulin levels drop low enough to allow the body to begin converting stored fat into energy, basically allowing you to burn fat as the primary energy source, rather than carbs as a primary energy source like most diets. On a carb diet, you basically only burn fat when you exercise enough to burn through the blood sugar from eating carbs, and for a few minutes you get into ketosis and burn fat as the backup fuel, but then as soon as you snack on carbs it drink something with sugar in it, your insulin spikes and you stop burning fat. When you fast, once the blood sugar drops, you start using body fat for energy, which is why you feel weak at first during a longer fast, but then you start feeling better and have more energy once the body stabilizes in ketosis. But on keto, I can be sitting on my ass with a full stomach and still be losing weight, because my body is converting stored fat into energy to operate my body. So yes, keto most definitely helps lose weight, because it opens the metabolic pathway to directly and constantly burn fat, and that's something no other diet can do.
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  8.  @FreshGreenMoss  can you please cite a source that keto breaks down muscle rather than fat? Or are you just making this up? Also, how come it is used so successfully by body builders and models to cut all fat off and just leave the muscle?
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