Why Keto diet is bad for you and can prove fatal

This is a terrible, clickbait article and the efficacy of the diet isn't even evaluated by a medical professional, they interviewed the director of a globo gym!

TLDR: don't do keto if you are diabetic, for seemingly obvious reasons (that you eat virtually zero carbohydrates, the things that keep your blood sugar level). Everyone else it may work, though any highly-restrictive diet generally has a poor adherence rate, and adherence is vital to even enter a ketogenic state.

This article doesn't seem very well written. For instance, under the drawbacks, it lists "triggers fatigue and brain fog". That'd be an interesting thing to know, if it were true, and I suppose for some people it is, but I had more energy and a sharper brain. So this is like a potential side effect. The glib writing makes it sound like everyone experiences this.

It lists "saggy skin", an effect of not working out, as if it had something to do with the diet, when it just explained that athletes sometimes use this diet to lose fat while not working out, or something along those lines. So they've sort of lumped in a side-effect of weight loss without working out and portrayed it as if it had something to do with the diet.

An altered blood lipid profile happen any time you adjust your diet. This would be true of a Mediterranean diet as well. Additionally, it mentions that it increases your cholesterol level, without mentioning that HDL goes up more than LDL cholesterol, which most measures use as a divisor for cholesterol risk, since LDL tends to inhibit blood flow, and HDL, on the other hand, tends to promote it. So that overall rise tends to be an improvement.

Trigger ketoacidosis... if you're diabetic. Okay, diabetics need to be careful with diets and medications. check.

The article makes some legitimate points, but frames them so badly with so much fluff and half-truth that I think it's worth a downvote.

For the "can prove fatal" the article says:

> If the level of ketones in your blood skyrockets, ketoacidosis may occur because ketones are acidic in nature. This means your blood pH could become lower which can spell death. However, this should not be a major concern if you are not diabetic.

From the article: "If the level of ketones in your blood skyrockets, ketoacidosis may occur because ketones are acidic in nature. This means your blood pH could become lower which can spell death. However, this should not be a major concern if you are not diabetic."

That title is rather clickbaity

Here is the perfect diet, which allows you to eat whatever you want and still lose fat:

(1) Eat whatever you want. (2) Make sure that you consume less calories than you burn while eating whatever you want. (3) Done.

> Your question will be , why bother when we are losing weight by having pasta, Maggi or McDonald' s or double cheese burger!

Keto is a low carbohydrate/low sugar diet. McDonald's is definitely out since the buns/fries/et al contain a LOT of sugar/carbs. Most pasta too is out unless you substitute it with these[0].

> Keto diet was basically invented for athletes and bodybuilders to help loose fat, during vacation, by eating less carb and more of fat, when they are not working out at all.

It dates all the way back to 400 BC where doctors of the period thought they could use it to combat epilepsy (with mixed success). This idea continued all throughout the 20th century (1920s with convolutions) and even up to the 1990s with "Charlie Abrahams" on Dateline.

No clue where they got bodybuilders from, appears inaccurate.

> Why Keto diet is bad for you and can prove fatal

Where in the article is the title answered? They never come back to the fatality claim in the title. Seems like clickbait. Plus a lot of their concerns (side effects) aren't well explained, justified, or referenced.

I'd recommend people read the "Adverse effects" on Wikipedia[1]. It is better written and has references to additional reading material. This article is low grade clickbait.

[0] http://startketo.com/6-low-carb-noodle-substitutes/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet#Adverse_effects