My answer is always to go back to the evidence. And the evidence strongly suggests, over and over again, the the best diet is no diet
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That is, if you look at systematic reviews on every diet imaginable, you'll find that in general no diet works better than any other
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Low-carb doesn't outperform low-fat. Paleo doesn't do better than IF. Vegans are healthier, but no more so than meat-loving keto subscribers
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So what is my advice? Well, firstly, don't listen to anyone on the internet, even me. I can't give you personalized dietary advice, because I don't know nearly enough about you
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The same is true for all of these diet gurus. Vegan diets are incredibly hard where I work, because vegan food is more expensive and requires more cooking time
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Similarly, very few of our patients can even attempt keto. When someone eats mostly ready-meals or MacDonalds, it's laughable to suggest that you can ask them to take enormous amounts of time/money to start preparing virtually all of their meals from scratch!
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And personally, as a Fat Guy, I lost a bunch of weight doing low-carb, gained it back, then lost it again on a low-fat diet And as ever, my anecdote means virtually nothing because you are not me
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What's my advice? Well, for that you should read the blog But, what we can easily say is that there is no one answer to any diet questions
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It's not going to be reducing fat, it's not going to be reducing carbs, it's not going to be any one thing There are no panaceas
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