If it’s all about calories in vs out, why is Keto so recommended
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It’s not all about calories in vs out. It’s important, but disregards the process of how fat is stored and burned by the body. One reason behind low-carb diets is that when you eat carbohydrates, your body produces insulin. One of the things that insulin does is to stimulate fat storage, meaning that eating too much should in theory result in you gaining less fat. The other thing is that removing carbs from your diet will lower your blood sugar, which forces your body to start breaking down fat for fuel.
So the idea is that diets like keto work by looking at exactly how fat is stored and used to find the most efficient way to keep body fat down. Unfortunately, (as far as I’ve seen, at least) actual research on effectiveness seems to show mixed results when compared to calories in/out methods of dieting, and the body of research is honestly not as big as it probably should be, so it’s really hard to make a call on how well low-carb diets work.
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