This is just a quick update as I head out to see Terry Wahls' presentation this afternoon. I will get into this more later, but I am seeing a low-carb slant to some of these presentations.
Here's one point I want to make: just because a low-carb, ketosis-type diet MAY be beneficial for certain disease states, this does NOT mean that it is the optimal diet for someone who is healthy. I think people get misled into this train of thought: "if a ketosis diet helps cancer patients, then that is how you should eat all the time" This is not a logical conclusion.
Case in point: I will be interested in hearing Wahls' position on dietary fat, as I believe it has shifted towards more fat. However, the diet she followed for her MS reversal was low in fat. Would a moderate or high fat diet be even more effective? Who knows, but her case study of n=1 shows that you can reverse disease with a high-carb diet.
Here’s an interesting link about low fat diet and MS
http://terrywahls.blogspot.com/2009/05/diet-ms-and-neurodegeneration.html
An the diet
http://www.swankmsdiet.org/About%20The%20Diet
The program for AHS12 warned me that it had been hijacked by the very low carb zealots. You shouldn’t be surprised. Keep us informed.
The ketosis diet is actually another term for the ‘low carb’ diet, but it’s often called the ketosis diet because individuals who switch from high carbohydrates to low carbohydrates often go through a process called ketosis. This is when the body releases ketones, which happens when the liver works to turn fats into fatty acids that can be used to provide energy to the body.