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Date: | Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:23:33 -0400 |
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I haven't tried a ketogenic diet yet, though I have considered it. Someone
told me that ketosis requires the restriction, not only of carbohydrates,
but also of protein; the ketogenic diet is very much fat-based. I recently
read somewhere (perhaps the raw-food archives) that few ketones were found
in the blood (or was it urine?) of Inuit eating a traditional diet. This
makes sense to me, since it is difficult to imagine why the incomplete
burning of fat would be desirable. Therefore, a ketogenic diet may not be
comparable to a low-carb hunter-gatherer diet. I haven't researched the
subject much, so I hope that someone will correct me if any of my
information is wrong. Even though the ketogenic diet may be somewhat
unnatural, it has considerable therapeutic value; for example, countless
epileptics have been saved by this diet.
It's not as though a paleo ketogenic diet and the good ol' Standard American
Diet (SAD) are the only two choices. If there is a common cause which
unites the "alternative" diets (McDougall, the Zone, paleo, etc.), it is a
mutual disdain of SAD.
Cheers,
-- Aaron Wieland
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