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Comments on Health Story of 2019: Keto Can Help With Type 2 Diabetes

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Greg Glassman
January 5th, 2020 at 9:40 pm
Commented on: Health Story of 2019: Keto Can Help With Type 2 Diabetes
In another story CNN announces “Experts say keto diet isn’t
sustainable, so why is it so popular?” On seeing this, alarms went off. CNN? Experts? Sustainable? 

I don’t trust CNN; I don’t trust their ability to vet experts on ANY subject - especially nutrition and exercise, and I’m not willing
to accept anyone’s testimony on nutrition (or any other subject) because they have been labeled an “expert” – ESPECIALLY by CNN.  

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/05/health/keto-diet-day-wellness/index.html

Reading the article, we find out that chief among the
“experts” is Dr. David Katz. He’s named ten times in the article. Dr. Katz is well known to us as a dishonest shill of food and beverage industry interests. (And for sockpuppeting reviews of his book!)

https://keepfitnesslegal.crossfit.com/2016/09/26/david-katz-junk-foods-slyest-defender/

For the record: 
Any diet that reduces carbohydrate and increases fat until
either HbA1c falls to 5 or lower, or Triglycerides to HDL ratio falls below 1, or arachidonic acid to eicosopentanoic acid ratio falls below 1 is serving you very well. Keto, Paleo, Zone, South Beach, Atkins, …. are each capable of accomplishing this. 

The CNN article’s implication that a diet absent in refined carbohydrates isn’t healthy causes me to suspect that CNN is colluding with one of their many sponsors to keep us on the industrial/commercial food plantation.
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Tyler Hass
January 6th, 2020 at 1:34 am
The US News ranking of diets is an absolute joke. The keto diet ranked 34th out of 35 diets. That's not a surprise. In the category of "Best Diabetes Diet", it tied for 24th place. The ultra high carb Ornish diet smashed it in this category.
It's not clear whether "best diabetes diet" means the winning diet is best at preventing/reversing diabetes or for getting diabetes. 
The funniest part is how the diets are ranked. The scores are 100% based on voting by a panel of experts. This is how the mainstream media does nutritional science.
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Eric Love
January 8th, 2020 at 9:25 pm
Where do we stand with respect to Zone these days?  Is the block chart still part of Level 1?
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Greg Glassman
January 5th, 2020 at 3:47 pm
Commented on: Health Story of 2019: Keto Can Help With Type 2 Diabetes
"New evidence that low-carb, high-fat diet can put the leading condition of our time into remission was very big news", reads the subheadline for this piece. 

The capacity for carb restriction to reverse T2 Diabetes was first demonstrated to me at World's Gym (now defunct) in Woodland Hills, CA in the mid 80's of the last century. There are people that have known of this effect for as long as the disease has been around it seems. 

The "very big news" is that the truth has seemingly slipped past the disease economy gatekeepers in industry and health who've made the "chronic" of chronic disease simply mean "sustainably profitable". The real news is that this is, sadly, actually news.
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