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I'm sorry I want to make myself clear that I'm a lay person so I'm not trying to be skeptical. But is this correct? This conflicts with my understanding. E.g. I have a family history of heart diseases (although mine and my sister's hearts are healthy so far) so proponents of high-carb diet would claim fat would increase the likelihood of heart disease by clogging my arteries. But low-carb people would claim fat would have no affect on my arteries, and the only factor would be my genetic markers making heart diseases more likely. I would guess that if this debate was settled, wouldn't it be easy to just say keto is bad since it increases the likelihood of heart diseases. But I really cannot find evidence supporting this. Quite the contrary, plant based low carb diet seems to decrease these diseases. What's going on here?

Even if you were to personalize my diet based on my full history and genetics, it doesn't seem possible you could do that, since we don't have evidence even for that.

parent gnulinux 8 years ago

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