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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you’re eating plenty of fruits and vegetables you’re eating plenty of carbs.

Eskimos eat full blown keto traditionally and have healthy babies. [/quote]

And you got your nutrition degree where?

This is absolutely not true, OP. Fruits and vegetables alone do not provide adequate carbs.[/quote]

Np Yes, they do! If she eats a diet high enough in fat (meats, dairy, nuts etc. ), she will have more than enough energy. [/quote]

And she will produce ketones which cross the placenta, and have the potential to cause brain damage.

Inuit and Yupik people ("Eskimos") don't produce ketones on their traditional diet.  A variety of reasons have been postulated for this.

1) They eat more protein and less fat than on a keto diet, because they trim the fat and save it for other purposes.

2) They particularly value those parts of the animal that are high in glycogen (e.g. the liver) and eat them very quickly after killing the animal.

3) Natural selection has caused a condition called CPT 1a Arctic variant in almost all Inuit/Yupik.  This variant changes how they metabolize fat.  It's one of the causes of high infant mortality in the Arctic, but it also has benefits and is one of the ways the Inuit and Yupik adapted to their traditional diet.

OP almost certainly isn't going to be eating freshly caught walrus liver, and almost certainly doesn't have CPT 1a Arctic variant, so advising her to try and follow a traditional Inuit/Yupik diet is extremely bad advice. [/quote]

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