I found the use of this term rather than 'ketosis' interesting:
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The tipping point is empirically taken as the onset of ketonuria, also used as an indicator of compliance with a very low carbohydrate ketogenic diet (VLCKD). The threshold carbohydrate reduction for ketonuria varies among individuals, but a rough estimate is 50 g of carbohydrate per day or, approximately 10% of energy on a nominal 2000 kcal diet, (a target of 30 g/d is common in the early phases of popular VLCKD diets)[15,21,60].
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I thought this was educational, for discussion on forums like this:
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The ADA designates low carbohydrate diets as less than 130 g/d or 26% of a nominal 2000 kcal diet and we consider this a reasonable cutoff for the definition of a low-carbohydrate diet. Carbohydrate consumption before the epidemic of obesity averaged 43%, and we suggest 26% to 45% as the range for moderate-carbohydrate diets. The intake of less than 30 g/d, as noted above should be referred to as a very low carbohydrate ketogenic diet (VLCKD). The term Ketogenic Diet should be reserved for the therapeutic approach to epilepsy. These diets do not independently specify the level of carbohydrate, but rather the sum of carbohydrate and protein.
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And I thought this was the best point of all:
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There is reluctance to make recommendations for low carbohydrate diets on the grounds that people will not follow them but compliance and efficacy of dietary recommendations are separate phenomena. In fact, all recommendations are specifically intended to be different from average consumption[1] and it is sensibly the purpose of health agencies to encourage conformance to the best therapies.
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I seriously have wondered about the mentality of people whose primary job and training and role is to find what works for health, in deciding that rather than tell people what works, they will tell them something else because probably most of them won't do what really works. It's like that joke about the drunk looking for keys a block from where he dropped them because the light is better there.
It is no end of appalling that I have watched my stepmother's family die off limb by vision by heart attack by cancer, because they are all obese and diabetic, and all follow the ADA's plan, as best they can (given that eating too damn many carbs makes you crave the things).
No amount of discussion or reference to my stepmother will help, since (a) she is mildly dyslexic so reading is a lot of work for her, it has to be simple and short generally, and (b) the ADA has the absolute power of divine medical authority in her eyes--despite how effectively its advice has managed to kill off nearly her entire family at this point--nothing and nobody else can compete, that's "medicine" and "science" and "government" all wrapped up in one.
I personally consider the ADA's asinine advice responsible for untold millions of deaths, blindness, amputations, heart attacks, cancer, and other misery visited upon the masses who have trusted them--it's hard to use the corporate sheild of non-responsibility when the level of result is so profound. If there was true evil in the world, it would be in seemingly well-intentioned people, in seemingly innocuous agencies, that had the power to bring untold suffering to so many people and their families.