How did keto become a mainstream movement?

January 13 by , medical review by in News

Here’s an interesting weekend read:

Men’s Health: Inside the rise of keto: How an extreme diet went mainstream

What’s the subtitle? “Meet the bodybuilders, biohackers, scientists, doctors, and hucksters behind the buzziest thing in nutrition.” Indeed. For a peppy rundown of how keto went from an obscure therapeutic diet for children suffering from epilepsy to the number one diet googled last year, take a look at this feature article in Men’s Health.

You’ll hear about the role of keto-famous and just-plain-famous names: Atkins, Attia, D’Agostino, Farriss, Phinney, Rogan and… wait for it… Oprah.

Although you will definitely find some skeptical remarks sprinkled throughout the narrative, this mostly-balanced article provides an intriguing window into the mechanics of how and why keto has flourished online.

But the author downplays the underlying reason behind all of the viral interest: results. Check out our hundreds of success stories or our summary of the pertinent science for more inspiration.

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Can you get low-carb food at fast-food restaurants? Ivor Cummins and Bjarte Bakke went to a number of fast-food restaurants to find out.
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Eating keto to survive cancer
28:51
Audra Wilford on the experience of using a ketogenic diet as part of treating her son Max’s brain tumor.
Challenging the dogma
16:47
Dr. Priyanka Wali tried a ketogenic diet and felt great. After reviewing the science she started recommending it to patients.
How to make keto sustainable
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How can you make the transition to a low-carb or keto diet as smooth as possible?
Low-carb living
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How do you successfully eat low carb for life? And what’s the role of ketosis? Dr. Stephen Phinney answers these questions.
My success story with Jim Caldwell
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Jim Caldwell has transformed his health and gone from an all-time high at 352 lbs (160 kg) to 170 lbs (77 kg.
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Can a ketogenic diet be used in cancer treatment? Dr. Angela Poff at the Low Carb USA 2016.
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Elena Gross' life was completely transformed with the ketogenic diet.
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If your muscles can't use stored glycogen, is it then a good idea to eat a high-carb diet to compensate for this? Or can a keto diet help treat these rare glycogen storage diseases?
My success story with Gillian Szollos
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2 comments

1
Srewolf
February 27
Wow, interesting publicity for DietDoctor: Due to "competition from rival weight-loss service Diet Doctor, which is a proponent of keto" an analyst at JP Morgan has downgraded its evaluation of Weight Watchers, causing the stock price to plunge, and investors (such as Oprah Winfrey) to suffer significant losses. The stock has lost 80% since its peak last July!

CEO "Grossman stressed that WW is not going to change its strategy just because there is a new diet plan that's popular. Everybody on the diet side looks for the quick fix. We've been through this before and we know that we are the program that works," Grossman said.

source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/investing/weight-watchers-earnings-sto...
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Rajeev Samuel
April 17
Don't forget to "comment on articles" and pay it forward and to seek out the anti-fat or "confusion" propaganda on the internet and correct it

example: fat make you fat
calories in = calories out
we don't know what causes weight gain
and so on and so forth