Many diets work and get results, you have to find what gets results for YOU.
I lost nearly 100lbs on keto, I gained it back because I didn’t love eating keto and went off it and went back to my old ways. (I’m a plant based guy by heart)
IF doesn’t work for me, I’m an all or nothing guy. So for me what works is long water fasts with a couple day refeeds where I enjoy carbs and a mostly plant based diet. That isn’t going to work for everyone, but it does for me.
The best diet is the one that works for you.
The biggest problem with self experiment is you only get to live once. In other words, a short term benefit of one particular diet may actually create long term problems, and secondly there is even no consensus on what health markers are actually good for you. For instance is cholesterol bad? Or is it the oxidative stress that hardens it into plaque is the culprit and high cholesterol is not as bad or in fact good?
I believe the key is consistency. If you consistently eat foods with high nutritional value that make you feel great and you’re trending toward your goal, you’ll always do better than eating in a way you don’t find sustainable.
Finding the right diet for your body and lifestyle does take some experimenting, but a few weeks of food journaling for each try and you’re well on your way to finding out what that is.
Self experiment, but I would guess for most specific diets eg Vegan, Keto etc part of the benefit is that you are actually paying attention to what you eat, and likely to be eating a greater proportion of real food rather than processed junk giving you what you think to be benefits of the diet, but are in reality the effects of eating healthy food
I think with most of those they’re comparing the diet to the SAD. The switch to real food will always be an improvement over that. But yeah everyone has an agenda. Would be great to see head to head studies for all of these diets. Sure anyone know if one fit insulin resistance?
I’m not a fan of veganism. I have been a vegetarian for few months & it sucks. I got vitamin deficiency from being a vegetarian & there was overall more hunger. And I would imagine veganism is a more extreme form of vegetarianism. So, that option is ruled out.
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Processed food & high sugar drinks- BAD!
Stuff with added sugar- BAD!
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One person around me good quite good results from keto but he/she did it properly. Consulted a dietician & followed the plan.
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The thing that has been working well for me is- eat anything I like. I fast 16:8 so my calories are well under budget. I have reduced junk food, alcohol & sugar to the minimum possible. Other than that, no restrictions i.e. I don’t focus much on ‘minimum carbs’, ‘meat only’, or ‘veggies only’. Gives me a lot of flexibility!
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Moderate exercise is good for body as well as mental health.
There isn’t a universal best diet. Everyone has to experiment with what works for them. Fasting science has been rooted in and explained by now known biochemical processes, so it applies pretty universally. However, fasting is but one tool in the toolkit.