Family Practitioner Questions No-carb Diet

Can a no-carb diet be healthy?

I am on a no-carb diet for weight loss. Is it healthy or can it have negative implications on my health?

5 Answers

A very low-carb or no-carb diet can be helpful for losing weight. However, usually the way you accomplish this is to eat lots of meat and fatty foods, which usually will increase your cholesterol and increase your risk of diabetes and several cancers. Also, most people find it very difficult to stick to a very low-carb diet, and they often end up gaining back all the weight they lost.

A better diet to lose weight is a "whole foods plant-based" diet, in which you eat vegetables, fruit, whole grains, and legumes (beans, lentils). You can learn lots more about this from the website: NutritionFacts.org.
Short term only essential sugars fruits and vegetables and nuts are essential to our diet to prevent illness like scurvy etc.
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Generally speaking a diet with absolutely no carbs is similar to the ketogenic diet that is so popular now. Bth as a physician and just in general, I think some carbs in a diet is healthier than none at all.
Theses extreme diets are very unhealthy and can damage your health. I balanced diet is a much safer and more sustainable way to lose weight.
Regardless of no carbs, we still eat some carbs. Ff you want to lose weight, that’s what is done.