scrapking said:
How is it not as simply as I make it sound? The article you link to doesn't contest the fact that the original Danish researchers actually made up some of their research, making claims they didn't even attempt to verify. Also, going from a ketogenic diet to a high-carb diet doesn't tell us much. Were the carbohydratest raw or refined? There's a huge difference if you're adding broccoli or Oreo cookies to your diet! The preponderence of scientific evidence suggests that both high fat and high refined carbohydrate intakes can cause heart disease. Maybe it'll eventually be demonstrated that refined carbohydrates are even worse than saturated fat, but that doesn't prove that either is neutral for health, let alone good. Again, the majority of the articles that suggests the Inuit (the term Eskimo should ideally not be used for the indigenous northern peoples of Canada and Greenland) didn't suffer heart disease seem to be accepting falsified 40 year old research, which is not confidence inspiring. Even if we accept that their ketogenic diet was as health for them as some claim, the fact remains that it wasn't as good for them as (for example) the 98% plant-based diet the Okinawans ate. But when mummified inuit show signs of heart disease, the preponderence of science suggests the inuit weren't as healthy as assumed. |
Sorry I didnt mean to sound so abrupt, I just wanted to make the point that no actual conculsion has ever been made as far as I've read
