Maybe somebody needs to repackage Keto as "Mediterranean Keto" and THEN everybody will love it.
I couldn't help but notice the following blurbs on the U.S. News page that give details about its #1 ranked (Best Overall) Mediterranean Diet...
https://health.usnews.com/best-diet/mediterranean-diet
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There isn't "a" Mediterranean diet.
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and then under the section "Will Mediterranean Diet help you lose weight?"
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A 2010 study in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism assigned 259 overweight diabetics to one of three diets: a low-carb Mediterranean diet, a traditional Mediterranean diet or a diet based on recommendations from the American Diabetes Association. All groups were told to exercise 30 to 45 minutes at least three times per week. After a year, all groups lost weight; the traditional [group lost an average of about 16 pounds while the ADA group dropped 17 pounds and the low-carb group lost 22 pounds. (bolding and underlining added by me)
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Because of the way they shift around their wording, it kind of get's lost in translation... But, if you connect the dots, the "traditional mediterranean" dieters lost the LEAST weight (16 lbs), while the "low carb Mediterranean" dieters lost the most weight (22 lbs) with the ADA diet group falling in the middle.
DUH??? Maybe it wasn't the "Mediterranean" aspect of the diet that mattered. Maybe it was the "low carb" aspect?
And then, there is this:
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Another study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008, assigned 322 moderately obese adults to one of three diets: calorie-restricted low-fat; calorie-restricted Mediterranean; and non-calorie-restricted low-carb. After two years, the Mediterranean group had lost an average of 9 7/10 pounds; the low-fat group, 6 4/10 pounds; and the low-carb group, 10 3/10 pounds. Although weight loss didn't differ greatly between the low-carb and Mediterranean groups, both lost appreciably more than the low-fat group did.
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Again, because of the way they shift terms around, what gets lost in translation is that,over a
two-year study, NON-CALORIE RESTRICTED LOW CARB beat out CALORIE RESTRICTED MEDITERRANEAN. So, go hungry for two years on a calorie-restricted Mediterranean diet or eat as much as you want on a low carb diet while losing slightly MORE weight that you would have while going hungry? Seems pretty obvious to me!
Seriously, when I compare a Mediterranean diet to my daily low-carb fare, the biggest differences are that 1) except for flax, I don't eat grains (whole or otherwise) and 2) I avoid starchy vegetables and sugary fruits. So maybe we could slip past the bias against low carb by repackaging it as something like "grain-free low-sugar Mediterrnean."