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

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How old are these kids? Because you know if they’re old enough to go over to a friend’s without their parents they’re eating all the carbs they can get their hands on at their friends’ houses.

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I know a family who are feeding their kid a fruitarian diet which I personally think is probably long term unhealthy for EVERYONE but also I’m no kind of medical or nutritional professional so I try not to judge. It’s not terrible and their kid seems healthy enough so I’m leaving that to be between them and their doctor.

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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.

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.

Ok so first, don’t believe everything you read on social media.

Second, don’t be so invested in someone’s social media that you can get upset over it.

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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.

You think rice is luw cstb?

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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.

I don’t think I’m following B

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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.

No it’s abuse boo

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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.

No it’s abuse boo

Weird then that their mandated reporter pediatrician hasn’t said so. Good thing you’re here!

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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.

No it’s abuse boo

Weird then that their mandated reporter pediatrician hasn’t said so. Good thing you’re here!

During four years of medical school, most students spend fewer than 20 hours on nutrition.Oct 10, 2019.

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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.

No it’s abuse boo

Weird then that their mandated reporter pediatrician hasn’t said so. Good thing you’re here!

During four years of medical school, most students spend fewer than 20 hours on nutrition.Oct 10, 2019.

How long do you think it takes to learn the symptoms of malnutrition though?

Look I know this isn’t easy for people to understand but if the kid isn’t malnourished or suffering from a vitamin deficiency like rickets or scurvy, the kid isn’t being abused by following the same diet as their parents. It’s ok. It’s really ok. There are children who *are* being abused, and being denied food, and making that the same as someone whose kids eat kale instead of carrots just really lacks perspective.

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No...I don’t know anyone that does this. Besides, once a kid starts school that would go out the window. They get so much processed crap at school..and I’m not even taking about school lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:I find this to be insane. I know two people who are keto mlm people and they have their kids growing up on a low-carb "keto-lite" diet. Do you know people like this? Does this seem crazy to you or am I off-base?

I am a doctor and I find this insane as well. Kids need carbs. I see parents who not only keep their kids low carb but also insist on low carb breakfasts before sports games/events and giving protein bars and sugar/carb free protein shakes during the game. They need to take an organic chemistry class and understand where energy comes from. Hint, it’s from carbs.

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There is an idjiot on YouTube that did that for a while. Bobby Parish something! And kids is half Bulgarian where grandma had all kinds of wonderful crabs for her granddaughter. She was a baby and a young toddler when he was doing it too!

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I feed my kids a ton of carbs, however I rarely give them crackers, cereals, goldfish, pasta, etc. they still eat a ton of carbs. Fruit, vegetables, rice, sugar free bread, etc. I eat a lot of beans as well, but my kids won’t touch them

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Yes, we are friends with family who kept the kids low-carb. When those kids were little and would come to my house, I caught them stuffing bread into their pockets to take home on more than one occasion. Now that those kids are teens, they go out with their friends (my kids, which is how I know) and gorge on crap.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

There are other consequences of having too much protein and too little carb beyond just immediate energy consumption. Eg too much protein is bad for kidneys. Too little carb restricts healthy hormone activity. Too little fiber is bad for numerous reasons.

Now, there is a lot of confusion on this thread about what carbs actually are but that’s another topic.

Finally, kids do best when they have a lot of food options to select from, otherwise they don’t natively develop a sense of what tastes and feels good. No, this does not mean they need large exposure to processed garbage (although fully restricting that stuff is also counter productive). But there is a large range of high quality carbohydrate foods.