Bulkbiker, I don't have all my books organized and easily accessible at the moment, but a quick online search said that the energy from carbohydrate intake is 5 to 10 percent on keto, so compared to their 37 percent, that's a BIG difference. I listened to the podcast. She clearly has not looked at or followed Volek's, Phinney's, and Hallberg's work, or Westman's, and doesn't understand how the keto diet works, which makes sense, because that would be too confusing. Must maintain one's confimation bias at all times.
I do not understand confirmation bias. When I started the keto diet, I spent six months looking at all the diets, how they worked, and questioned everything. And I never looked back because all my health markers improved so dramatically.
I like what Jenny Ruhl says... Choose a diet, follow it
exactly as designed for three months, then decide whether to stay with it or try another diet.
What I love so much about the low carb diet and it's many variations is that the people who promote it don't just refer briefly to a parade of studies that show this or that, they dig into the details of the study's results so you understand why and how the diet works, and how to know when it's
not working.
Oldvatr, thanks as always for your explanations. I always strive to understand your posts. I linked to the study's abstract, bulkbiker linked to the study itself. If interested, here's the link to the study again...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057550/
Just a quick aside. I miss BLT sandwiches - (bacon, lettuce, and tomato) - and have been experimenting. Today's effort was really yummy... Combine in bowl 1/2 avocado cubed, 4-6 cherry tomatoes cut into fourths or sixths, 2 slices of thick bacon cooked and sliced into 1/2" sections, 1/3 cup raw walnuts, 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoon mayonnaise, 1 teaspoon of bacon drippings from pan (for added flavor). Mix and enjoy with a side of raw veggies. So good.