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Comment by Oarch | Hacker News Reader

Subjectively, it feels like I keep seeing more and more reasons for a shift towards a low alcohol and low carb / keto-like diet.

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You see more reasons for low alcohol because we are finally waking up to the fact (and the science is confirming) that it's a poison ... at essentially any dose.

You see more reasons for low carb/keto because it's the current diet trend.

Low carb has been a “trend” for 20+ years with the Atkins Diet and keto for over 10 years now (although it’s from the 1920s).

The prevalence of diabetes has been increasing as well, which drives those otherwise not commonly following any trendy diets towards a required diet (or at least interest in it).

Explicitly aiming for low-carb makes sense because, even if you're trying, basically everything (here in the US) has added sugar in it. In a vacuum, carbs themselves aren't a problem as long as you're also getting lots of fat, protein, nutrients, etc.

I've been intentional about eating my whole life since I'm basically an autist when it comes to food. Low carb makes me feel like trash. No grain/dairy is where it's at imo. I basically just eat fruit every day until like 12-1pm then meat & veggies after that.

Not sure why the downvotes, i agree too and seems obvious

There is a disease here on HN, and "the algorithm" is not helping.

My intuition is that the commentariat has factionized itself. Of course, the fundamental intent here is to make money irrespective of negative external effects. This is because shit rolls downhill.

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