Talk:Low-carb diet

Your body needs carbohydrates to survive
I knew about proteins and fats but it's the first time I read this and I really doubt that is true, any peer reviewed data to support this claim?


 * You get some carbs from meat (DNA is part sugar and ~1% of muscle is glycogen), so it's more or less impossible to not have any carbs at all in your diet. It's not something that's been extensively studied, since it would require quite a bit of unethical research to determine, especially when we can already determine that very low carb diets and especially those without dietary fiber are unhealthy. CorruptUser (talk) 21:24, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

You get very little carbs from meat. DNA is irrelevant. But, when your carbs are low your liver makes as much glucose as you need via neo-glucogenesis.

This has been extensively studied, in individuals, populations and RCTs. Low Carb High Fat diets have never been found to be unhealthy, but are actually healthier than high carb diets.CarbShark (talk) 04:11, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Muscle meat glycogen is depleted on slaughter through rigor mortis. 4f14-5d4-6s2 (talk) 11:50, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

"Low Carb High Fat diets have never been found to be unhealthy, but are actually healthier than high carb diets", a dishonest statement:


 * High-protein, reduced-carbohydrate weight-loss diets promote metabolite profiles likely to be detrimental to colonic health
 * A high-fat diet impairs cardiac high-energy phosphate metabolism and cognitive function in healthy human subjects.
 * Low carb diets shorten your life unless you are mostly vegetarian, study suggests, link to the study
 * Low carbohydrate diets are unsafe and should be avoided, study suggests, link to the study
 * Low carbohydrate diets are unsafe and should be avoided Conclusion "Our study highlights an unfavourable association between low carbohydrate diets and total and cause-specific death, based on individual data and pooled results of previous studies. The findings suggest that low carbohydrate diets are unsafe and should not be recommended."
 * Low-Carb Diets Linked to Higher All-Cause Mortality

Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis

John66 (talk) 09:59, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Does it work?
Some big problems with this section. First of all we have an appeal to ancient wisdom fallacy

This paragraph actually seems at first to be promoting the Paleo diet, which is debunked in another article. Just because our ancestors did something, does not make it right, and then…

Wait, what? We’re now taking the appeal to ancient wisdom as far back as different genus because we shared a common ancestor around six million odd years ago? Seriously?

Furthermore, since chimps obviously are not designed to run a marathon before clubbing a gazelle to death as we allegedly are [citation needed], why would we share a common optimum diet?

But wait, I’m still confused. If we have evolved to run a marathon to club a gazelle to death and then eat it, then isn’t this an argument for and not against a low carb diet? I mean gazelles aren’t really a very good source of carbs, being mostly protein and fat.

Saying that we have evolved specifically to obtain a low carb food source, and then saying that low carb foods do not lend themselves to the acquisition of low carb food is obviously absurd.

Calorie counting and the calories in vs calories out equation is basic thermodynamics. The number of doctors that “seem” to either agree or disagree is irrelevant.

Low carb diets don’t “seem” to work because you eat fewer calories. That is how and why they work because

Although again, it doesn’t “seem” to be a way to dodge calories, it does indeed dodge calories and does indeed replace them with foods that are more satiating, hence lower overall calorie consumption and is thus an effective weight loss strategy, even if the long term health impacts remain controversial.

Can we just replace this section with one that says that low carb diets work because protein and fat are more satiating, and therefore people tend to consume fewer calories overall?

Jonewer (talk) 13:45, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Unexplained removal
I added a paper which analysed the health records of nearly 14,000 people spanning more than two decades, the researchers found that those on Low carbohydrate diets were at an increased risk of incident AFib. There was no explanation to why this content was removed. I often use Wikipedia so I am not a newbie to editing Wikis but this is my first edit here and I am not impressed to why good material is removed for no reason and marked up as a minor edit. DietResearcher (talk) 15:47, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * is the one who removed your edit. I don't know enough to do anything. Vee (talk) 15:48, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Shit, pinged the wrong person. Sorry. Vee (talk) 15:49, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I made a mistake. I thought you had removed that reference. I didn't realize you had added it. Spud (talk) 01:54, 21 November 2022 (UTC)