Keto or vegan. which is healthier? the
answer is probably not what you think it
is. A brand new study compared the two
diets side by side and measured their
health benefits. here's three takeaways.
one, people on the vegan diet ate seven
times more carbohydrates yet they lost
fat. those on keto did not lose
significant fat over the first couple
weeks. that's not to say you can't lose
fat on a low-carb diet, of course you
can. we know that from multiple studies
that follow people longer. the point is,
it's not the carbs that make you fat. the
people on the vegan diet were going to
town on carbs and yet they lost fat
faster. don't get me wrong, you can lose
fat by cutting carbs. you can lose fat by
cutting any food, any source of calories.
carbohydrate, fat, even protein. the point
here is to take an objective look at the
health benefits of the diets. I have
nothing personal against keto or vegan
in fact I'm gonna roast both diets on
this video. I gotta keep myself
entertained somehow. in the study the
people eating vegan were satiated faster
and ate less calories. in all likelihood
that's why they lost fat. now, some of you
are going "duh" and if so, congrats, but
the truth is, this is still a common
misunderstanding. I know even highly
educated people, some even scientists, who
still say "I gotta lose some weight. I
should cut carbs, right?" when's the last
time you heard that? we hear it all the
time! they even make parody memes about
it. so the mindset shift is to not focus
on the nutrients so much. the
carbohydrates and the fat and the protein
it's about food quality. the refined
carbs make it easier to gain weight
because they're more calorically
concentrated and have less fiber so you
eat more calories per bite. complex carbs
and natural foods, also known as whole
foods, like greens or beans or whole
grains like oatmeal, make it easier to
maintain or lose weight because they're
calorie dilute and fiber rich so if
by 'cut carbs' you mean cut candy,
yeah great move. assuming you replace it
with something healthier. but let's be
clear that we're cutting candy because
it's an artificial product where the
nutrients are refined to their simplest
form,
not because it's 'carbs'. otherwise the
next natural question is "oatmeal has a
lot of carbs, do should I cut that as
well?" and we all get confused into
general carbophobia. even doctors
sometimes. and I don't blame people
for getting confused. okay, next takeaway.
because losing
fat is not the only thing we want from
our diet. losing excess fat is good but
there are many ways to lose weight, it
doesn't mean it's healthy.
so, more health benefits. the vegan diet
lowered cholesterol but it raised
triglycerides. low carb diets like keto
tend to do the opposite, especially
animal-based. you bring down your
cholesterol by shifting a bit from
animal to plant fats, except for coconut
oil, and you bring down your
triglycerides by shifting from simpler
to more complex carbohydrates. I've made
several videos about optimizing blood
lipids, at the end of the video I'll link
one that I'd highly recommend, but if you
have any questions write them down below
and I'll try to make more. so again, the
key is the type of food, not if it's high
fat or low fat. both are possible and
both can be healthy, which is why these
diet wars on social media, keto versus
vegan, are a distraction
vegans and low carbers have been
fighting for years. so of course when
this study came out pitting the two
diets face to face it was like throwing
gasoline on fire. actually the
researchers wanted to keep this study
secret but the vegans wouldn't stop
telling everybody about their diet.
now the people on keto, they didn't tell
anybody. they were much better about it.
they were too busy asking the vegans
'where do you get your protein?'. told you I
was gonna go after everybody. seriously,
these diet Wars
miss the big picture. of course we're
talking about health here. if you're vegan
for the animals or the environment,
that's fine, but health-wise a vegan diet
can be great or it can be terrible. candy
and cola is vegan.
same goes for keto. it can be healthy,
lots of greens, high in fiber, or it can
be unhealthy, with processed meats, low
fiber and high saturated fat. so the
whole keto versus vegan war is social
media smoke. ironically, while the vegan
and keto gurus are worried about winning
this battle, the only one winning is the
processed food industry raking in
billions. here's the main reason this
comparison doesn't make sense: the two
aren't even mutually exclusive. vegan
keto diets are popular and have even
been tested in scientific studies with
very good results. you know what they
should call it?
Kegan. or veto. trademarked! so to ask
which is better, keto or vegan, it doesn't
make any sense. having an abundance and
variety of unprocessed plants, that's the
Golden Rule
a healthy diet can be keto or not, vegan
or not, low carb or not, high fat, low fat,
intermediate fat.
many possibilities. choose the one that
works for you
and ignore the social media noise. the
people on the vegan diet reported
increased bowel movement frequency. the
people on keto said "what's a bowel
movement?". the vegans lost three pounds of
weight in the first week. pretty good.
even more impressive, they gained two
inches of height. according to the
researchers, it was mainly a result of
getting on their soapbox. that's so lame... the study also looked at
demographics. the study also looked at
dem...
the study also looked at demographics.
65% of vegans reported being atheists.
among the keto group 85 percent said they
don't believe in God but carbs are
definitely the devil. I got this let's go
I can do it. okay, alright. if you want
to know more about cholesterol and diet
I recommend this video over here for
more on weight loss, try that one
