If you’re wondering whether a #LowFat or #LowCarb #diet is better, wonder no more with these randomized control trials.

I’ve gone hardcore #vegan and hardcore #paleo and only in the latter did weight just melt off within the first month with no exercise at all.

It’s not coincidental that the obesity rate in the US shot up after a low fat diet was recommended in 1977.

I’m currently researching a #keto diet for both longevity & mental health.

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Hi, I’m Arp! I got diagnosed with ADHD at 49, and now I'm trying to figure out what's me, what's masking, and just about everything else. I make comics (when imposter syndrome isn't striking) and write about life as a creative Indian-American. I’m self-taught, self-employed, and self-flagellating.

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    • Can you explain a bit more? It looks like the goal is to minimize sodium, potassium, and phosphorus, and maybe protein too.

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  1. @arpcomics Veganism isn’t a diet, it’s a lifestyle that avoids harming and exploiting animals. Food is just the most obvious part.So there’s not one vegan diet.”vegan” doesn’t describe dietary health.There’s a very wide range, from raw whole food to junk food to paleo vegans. So it’s possible to have a very healthy diet (with a healthy biochemical makeup, regardless of the details of which you consider ideal), or a very unhealthy diet linked to the most common illness among nonvegans.

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    • Thanks, I appreciate it. I’ll have to figure out how to best describe what I did, which was cutting out all animal products (meats & dairy).

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