How bodybuilders, biohackers, scientists, nutrition nerds and crooks helped an extreme diet go mainstream.
GREYSON LOPEZ’S friend was about to be kicked out of the military for being too chubby. It was late 2017, and Lopez noticed his friend started losing weight – fast. “He’d lost 9kg in 20 days,” says Lopez, 23, who works in IT for the Navy. “So I asked, ‘How’d you do it?’ ”
Searching for a lose-it-quick plan, the rapidly becoming-less-fat guy explained, he’d gone to Reddit, where he glommed on to a thread on the “ketogenic diet”. People in the 870 000-strong /r/keto subreddit posted about losing 24kg in as many days, not feeling hungry, and even being able to focus better. However, the diet was – to put it mildly – contrarian; in the same way you might say American politics is “divided”.
First, you eat very limited carbs. Low-carb isn’t radical, but ketogenic is ultra -low: less than 50 grams a day. (The average guy hits that at breakfast.) Fruit is mostly a no, and you cap vegetables strictly. Yes, vegetables.
Next, you’re limited to 100 grams a day, at most, of protein – that muscle-building nutrient embraced by nearly every other diet. What’s left? Fat. Lots of it: marbled steak, oily fish, yolky eggs, and streaky bacon. Top it all with butter, olive oil, and lard. A classic keto diet consists of 90% of your kilojoules from fat, 6% from protein, and 4% from carbs. The diet is, indeed, a giant F-U to the food pyramid.
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