Do you know parents who keep their kid low-carb?

[Anonymous]

Traditional Aleutian diet is keto and their kids don’t die.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Low carb, or slow carb? Any parent that restricts apples, corn, beans, barley, lentils. carrots, sweet potatoes, bananas, peaches, etc... is a massive nutcase.

Those are all carb heavy, but nutrient heavy.

Limiting processed things? Fine. But restricting is also dangerous and can backfire (ask me how I know).

Everything in moderation, nothing off limits, and abundant plants. That's how you create healthy kids.

Yeah, I am talking about the first. Like not letting kids eat fruit level. Or really any of the other stuff you listed.

Then I would consider that a form of abuse. They're making their kid go along with their eating disorder, for no beneficial (and highly detrimental) reasons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are being fed sufficient and nutritious food? Find something else to think is “insane”.

Carbs are a nutrient that growing children need. So, no. A child on a low carb diet isn't getting sufficient nutritious food.

If the kid is getting sufficient fresh vegetables they’re getting plenty of carbs. If they’re getting fruit, even more so. Children lived for generations before we started feeding them Kraft macaroni and cheese and goldfish every day.

Presumably since we’re in the D.C area, these kids have a pediatrician. If they’re not worried, you don’t need to be.

No one on this thread has said that kids need kraft macaroni or goldfish. But restricting fruit, and whole grains, and other carb heavy foods like sweet potatoes, carrots, and legumes, which is what an actual low carb diet does, is not safe for kids.

If it restricts it to below 150-200g potentially. But something tells me that these kids are getting a healthier diet than OPs kids and that’s why she’s calling it “insane”. Since OP presumably doesn’t live with these kids she doesn’t know they don’t eat oatmeal every morning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I married into an Asian family whose diet is rice based so I don't think low-carb is crazy.

Rice is carb.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Traditional Aleutian diet is keto and their kids don’t die.

And children with seizure disorders are often put on ketogenic diets. Everyone should really calm down and let people feed their kid in the way that works for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our family doesn't eat a ton of carbs. We probably eat a portion and a half of carbs throughout a typical day. Toast at breakfast, small portion of crackers or sandwich or pretzels at lunch, none at dinner. It's just not a big thing for us.

Do you have children? This is really harmful if you do.

It's fine. Their pediatrician knows how our family eats and has no problems with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our family doesn't eat a ton of carbs. We probably eat a portion and a half of carbs throughout a typical day. Toast at breakfast, small portion of crackers or sandwich or pretzels at lunch, none at dinner. It's just not a big thing for us.

No veggies?

I meant starches, not carbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Traditional Aleutian diet is keto and their kids don’t die.

No, but their life expectancy was substantially shorter than other people, and their rate of cardiovascular issues was high.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our family doesn't eat a ton of carbs. We probably eat a portion and a half of carbs throughout a typical day. Toast at breakfast, small portion of crackers or sandwich or pretzels at lunch, none at dinner. It's just not a big thing for us.

Do you have children? This is really harmful if you do.

It's fine. Their pediatrician knows how our family eats and has no problems with it.

Your pediatrician knows your kids never eat fruit, and you never model eating it in front of them?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Traditional Aleutian diet is keto and their kids don’t die.

No, but their life expectancy was substantially shorter than other people, and their rate of cardiovascular issues was high.

Relative to what? Sustenance hunter-gatherer populations typically do have shorter life expectancies so that’s not really a surprise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Traditional Aleutian diet is keto and their kids don’t die.

No, but their life expectancy was substantially shorter than other people, and their rate of cardiovascular issues was high.

Relative to what? Sustenance hunter-gatherer populations typically do have shorter life expectancies so that’s not really a surprise.

Relative to other northern groups, such as Scandanavians, in the same time period.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Traditional Aleutian diet is keto and their kids don’t die.

No, but their life expectancy was substantially shorter than other people, and their rate of cardiovascular issues was high.

Relative to what? Sustenance hunter-gatherer populations typically do have shorter life expectancies so that’s not really a surprise.

Relative to other northern groups, such as Scandanavians, in the same time period.

…that were at that time hunter-gatherer societies? Let’s see your data then.

[Anonymous]

Guys. It doesn’t matter about the hunter-gatherers. These kids are 99.9% sure to be just fine. This is just someone tearing into another mom.

People who don’t know my daughter has a life threatening allergy probably think I’m “insane” because my daughter brings her own cupcake to birthday parties.

There’s a kid in our preschool whose parents let him eat frozen waffles for dinner every night because that’s what he will sit at the table and eat and they want to eat dinner together.

We have a cousin who gets unlimited juice boxes.

We have strict vegan parents of a toddler on our street, raising her strict vegan.

Just…assume everyone is feeding their kids in the way they think is best and works for them, unless they are literally not feeding their kids and then give the kid a sandwich and then call
CPS not DCUM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are being fed sufficient and nutritious food? Find something else to think is “insane”.

Carbs are a nutrient that growing children need. So, no. A child on a low carb diet isn't getting sufficient nutritious food.

If the kid is getting sufficient fresh vegetables they’re getting plenty of carbs. If they’re getting fruit, even more so. Children lived for generations before we started feeding them Kraft macaroni and cheese and goldfish every day.

Presumably since we’re in the D.C area, these kids have a pediatrician. If they’re not worried, you don’t need to be.

No one on this thread has said that kids need kraft macaroni or goldfish. But restricting fruit, and whole grains, and other carb heavy foods like sweet potatoes, carrots, and legumes, which is what an actual low carb diet does, is not safe for kids.

I don't live with these kids but their parents are "mompreneurs" and post nonstop about their keto diets and their kids keto diets, so according to the vast amount of info they put online, no, their kids are not allowed oatmeal.


If it restricts it to below 150-200g potentially. But something tells me that these kids are getting a healthier diet than OPs kids and that’s why she’s calling it “insane”. Since OP presumably doesn’t live with these kids she doesn’t know they don’t eat oatmeal every morning.

[Anonymous]

Your body can easily convert protein to glucose. As long as it isn’t a true keto (almost all fat) diet, the kids’ bodies will process it like any other American diet.