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keto for athletes ?

Oh wonderful - so ketosis is a semi starvation state. I suppose it might seem so for someone used to eating high carb foods every few hours, but oh deary deary me - I think it might not actually be all that accurate a description.
 
Resurgam said:
Oh wonderful - so ketosis is a semi starvation state. I suppose it might seem so for someone used to eating high carb foods every few hours, but oh deary deary me - I think it might not actually be all that accurate a description.
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Quite right Resurgam. So imagine what it's going to be like when we get such articles about actual fasting?! (They haven't really gotten onto that yet, the way Keto is being targeted/focussed on/put in the Way of Eating spotlight...)

Just very very very hard to break through the ideas-on-proper-healthy-nutrition barrier around the fact that high levels of carbs in any diet is the truly unnatural unhealthy fact, not fat levels. But I would think that wouldn't I? Having type two and all.
 
"While this does help people drop the pounds, it comes with a variety of health issues. The only known medical reasons for going on a keto diet are for helping children with epilepsy and regulating blood sugar in people with diabetes.

While it’s a medically approved diet for specific conditions, this doesn’t mean it’s ideal for weight loss without consulting a professional. There are far better and healthier alternatives to losing weight that don’t harm the body."

What variety of health issues? And what healthier alternatives? And what a hoot - consulting a professional re weight loss - that has really been effective over the decades, hasn't it?

Soooo much anti-keto propaganda - we can't keep up with it all!
 
Love this part on keto effects on bone health.

Researchers followed 30 athletes who were about to start intense training for upcoming competitions and race walking. They found that those who followed a keto diet developed early signs of bone loss compared to those who followed a balanced diet.

Followed by this admission

The study did not look at bone density and did not follow up with participants beyond the three-week period.

This is just absolute lazy garbage research with an obvious agenda imo.

I follow LC/Keto and my bone health has been negatively affect by prednesalone over the years. Since being scanned, I have taken it upon myself to address it and I'm reversing the loss. Bet they don't want to hear that....

Edit: Forgot to add, for good reference material on keto athletes, look no further than Dr.'s Phinney and Volek
 
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Makes me laugh how anything that doesn't align with the calamitous high grain, low fat dogma still gets painted with the fad diet brush. Even when the "fad" is, give or take, largely what hominids evolved alongside for more than two MILLION years before we decided forty years ago that nature had got it wrong and we knew better.

Anyone who truly believes that ancestral eating is dangerous to human health is probably hard of thinking. You don't even need to do any science in order to understand that just the notion of it is gold-plated balderdash. Ten seconds of critical thought should be enough.
 
I have as I have said many times a grandson who is a bodybuilder and is more strictly keto than I have ever been and he is massive.

In fact Jon Jon Park son of Reg Park is one of his followers on instagram
 
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JohnEGreen said:
I have as I have said many times a grandson who is a bodybuilder and is more strictly keto than I have ever been and he is massive.
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Good on him. It's a great way to keep fit and healthy, plus counter the negative effects of steroids like prednesalone on bone health I have found.
 
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