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Oct 1, 2026

Ken BerryHOST
15:01
on your proper human diet.
Ken BerryHOST
15:03
The next concept for a proper human diet is not to fall for fad diets.
Ken BerryHOST
15:08
Now, you may be thinking that the keto diets or the ketovor diet or the carnivore diet is a fad diet because that's what you hear on television and read magazines.
Ken BerryHOST
15:17
Actually, what the keto, ketovor, low-carb carnivore diets are, are a rediscovery.
Ken BerryHOST
16:01
So why are we recommending it? Well, it's because it's a fad.
Ken BerryHOST
16:04
It's been around for a few decades.
Ken BerryHOST
16:06
And I predict over the next decade, this diet, along with the DASH diet, the Weight Watchers diet, the Jenny Craig diet, all these other fad diets, some of which have been around for 60 or 70 years, they're gonna die and go away because they're obviously not the proper human diet.
Ken BerryHOST
16:22
They do not give you optimal nutrition.
Andreas EenfeldtGUEST
4:01
And the third one is
speaker_4ADVERTISER
4:02
fad diets.
Andreas EenfeldtGUEST
4:05
This is an article from The Lancet a few years ago called, Fad Diets in Sweden of All Places.
Andreas EenfeldtGUEST
4:12
And these authors were horrified by the popularity of something really dangerous called LCHF.
Andreas EenfeldtGUEST
4:20
It was so popular in Sweden and looks like this.
HannahHOST
45:20
And just on that.
HannahHOST
45:22
So this is made me think about, do you remember that show, The Biggest Loser? And obviously, again, we've spoken about kind of how we grew up in a time where, you know, fad diets were a thing, magazines, splashing articles around how you can lose weight.
HannahHOST
45:38
We've talked about it before, loose, circling cellulite, you know, growing up with that 90s chic look.
HannahHOST
45:44
And The Biggest Loser, I remember, was a really popular show, wasn't it, where overweight people would go on it and they would train really hard, eat really healthily and get weighed on scales.
John GreenHOST
10:18
Is it my birthday? Man, I love our new globe.
John GreenHOST
10:20
Anyway, an open letter to fad diets.
John GreenHOST
10:23
Dear fad diets, you know what doesn't work? Eating unhealthily.
John GreenHOST
10:27
You know what does work? Eating healthily.
John GreenHOST
10:29
Your
John GreenHOST
12:15
So the idea of eating only one kind of food is just sort of inherently ludicrous.
John GreenHOST
12:19
I mean, the average freegan is literally healthier than I am, and they just eat whatever's in the dumpster.
John GreenHOST
12:23
In short, fad diets, eating discarded food is much more in line with most of human history than the paleo diet.

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