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by aldarion 215 days ago
That is because dietary advice they give is actually bad. It mostly boils down to "limit calories while eating standard western diet" but that is impossible to follow long-term as SWD and similar (e.g. food pyramid) diets are nutrient-deficient.

How many doctors recommend things like paleo diet, intermittent fasting and so on? Not many, I think - most simply focus on calories, combined with the advice that is either extremely generalized ("avoid sugar") or outright counterproductive ("eat 5 - 6 meals a day"). And then they wonder why people can't follow their diet.

Here I described my own experiences: https://ketoview.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/low-fodmap-keto-di...

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Nobody recommends western diet. It’s standard practice to recommend DASH or Mediterranean one.