Is carbohydrate phobia the new mainstream "thing" in recent years?
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Is carbohydrate phobia the new mainstream "thing" in recent years?
In early 2000s it used to be saturated fat and red meat phobia (originated probably from the 70-80s cholesterol propaganda ) but somewhere after 2010 and forward it shifted towards carbohydrate phobia when keto/carnivore/low carb became trendy.
Nowadays it seems like carbohydrates are demonized much more so than fats. The average person out there genuinely believes that a low carb diet is healthy.
A full keto diet (more extreme version of "low carb diet") which is very unhealthy and even potentially dangerous has become socially acceptable and even encouraged in mainstream culture.
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Current dietary trends are simply confused. This is the end result of conflicting commercial interests each funding their own studies to say that xyz is good and abc is bad. The average person believes whatever the latest few convincing headlines were saying. Keto diet and fasting are having their moment but many people were pro-fasting, pro-keto, etc. are seemingly beginning to shift away from it.
Much of this stuff is due to "evidence-based" practices, which means a religious deference to meta-analysis, RCTs, and institutional guidance. The result is that conflicting corporate interests are considered "variations in the science" and the continual vagueness and contradictions are simply a total failure to account for biases and do real science.
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No, not new. The Atkins diet paved the way for low carb dieting. Every generation revamps it with a new name.
