I wasn't really implying that everyone should start a ketogenic diet. Just stating the success that I've had with it, and also noting several common misconceptions that are still largely heard today.
I take issue with your condescending tone, because it doesn't fit whatsoever with your clear ignorance on the topic. I'm particularly sensitive to the topic of food, because people in your situation (who have found success but have no idea why) are immensely harmful to nutrition education.
Comments like yours are precisely why there are so many misconceptions out there.
Everything I stated in the original comment is information I have gathered and learned about over the years. Most people haven't read any books about nutrition and how the body works, where I have done a lot of independent research. So I probably know a little bit more about this stuff than the average person. I'm not saying I'm an expert by any stretch, but I'm sure a lot of people on HN could find this information useful, and a good starting point for their own independent research.
And no, I can't site the sources directly, but if you have any specific points you'd like to point as being "errors", feel free to do so, as I'm sure others would be interested.
Like any internet forum, you can always put your opinion in. However you have seemed to only attack my comment, rather than providing any real retort.
* You falsely (implicitly) assert expertise on a topic (nutrition) to which you've had no actual training.
* You believe "just a comment on HN" doesn't deserve your full effort.
* You elevate yourself above the level of an ambiguous group of "others", without any evidence or actual reason for doing so.
* Your actual content comes without any citation or reasoning. You expect others to simply "take your word for it", or worse, do their own research, which you've given zero helpful information to help guide, other than random statements about nutrition.
* You overvalue your personal experience, while simultaneously undervaluing the research/experience/knowledge of others.
My contribution to this discussion is to point out to others your distinct lack of actual knowledge, despite your insistence on passing yourself off as an "expert"-- no, sorry, you said you're not an expert, just a guy who's "done a lot of independent research" (whatever that means).
I realize this comes off as harsh, but please realize, I don't know you, and am not making a value judgement of you as a person, just on what you've written here in the last hour or so. I'd bet you're not like this all the time, this just wasn't a very well thought out conversation.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
>are immensely harmful to nutrition education.
Why don't you bestow us with that education, instead telling everyone how dangerous their opinions are?
It's simply not true that I must be able to provide the correct answer in order to identify and critique an incorrect answer.