What are peoples thoughts on low carb high fat diets. Are they

>>40057479
It's a meme

>>40057530
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Mostly, it's good for average people who eat too much junk food. It is very easy for someone to learn what carbs are, and then just avoid them. This helps them avoid junk food (chips, cookies, soda) and fast food (fries, burgers, hot dogs). As far as that goes, I think it's quite successful. It's much more complicated for people to learn the difference between a slice of cake and a boiled potato, so by telling them to just not eat both it simplifies everything. Pretty much they are left with meats, vegetables, some cheesea/yogurts.

I don't personally like the whole low carb craze for a couple of reasons. I think in general people should be eating less meat/dairy, not more (mostly for ecological reasons, but also due to the amount of problems that come along with factory farming). It also discourages people from actually understanding what they are eating and instead just leads them to entirely avoid a single macronutrient. It's very drastic and most people will have a hard time sticking to it in the long term, or its prescribed as a short term solution and the individual eventually reverts back to their old bad habits after they lose the weight they wanted.

I'm not entirely up to date on the research though so I could be way off. But the way I've understood it that's what I think

>>40057479
the majority of all diets are directed towards people with sedentary life styles
Eat everything in moderation

>>40057479
Don't trust books, blogs or websites. Trust studies but still reserve some skepticism for them.