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Severely limiting your intake of carbohydrates and fats, you may be shortening your lifespan (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)

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Carbs, Fats, and the Mortality Maze: What Your Diet Means for Your Life Expectancy Grandma used to constantly say, "Eat your carbs, they give you energy!" but now, personal trainers are encouraging you to stop eating carbs and switch to keto. What gives, then? I stumbled uncovered an intriguing cohort research that may or may not put some of these arguments to rest. But guys, it's data! In addition, data makes me more excited as a medical student than an aerobic workout. The study looked at how

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[–] Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It would be interesting with what the carbs were substituted. As far as we know most sources of carbs are really bad for you. Some even worse than plain sugar, because they raise your blood sugar so much in a short time.

Of course fats (and proteins) are necessary to be healthy, because without them you will die. If you don't provide enough carbs to burn the body will metabolize its own though hence the usefulness of external carbs is questionable except for calories. That's the whole idea behind low carb and keto diets.

It would be really interesting to see this study repeated with another demographic. At least I assume that the normal diet is very carb heavy for most people there which might skew the results in different ways.

It was an interesting read nonetheless and I hope there will be more studies on this topic.