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Originally Posted by emgreen
I just got off a ketogenic diet for weight loss & it was miserable. While it might have other benefits, it's lousy for the mood & all the fats one ingests aren't good heart health. Then again, I guess I'd rather die in my sleep of a heart attack than suffer from dementia. Do a Google on the emotional effects of a ketogenic diet...My findings were that it led to depression & other problems at least initially.
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Thank you for warning me! I would not do a ketogenic diet because eating whole rye products - toasted German bread and Finnish or Swedish crackers - is too important for me emotionally. I also eat buckwheat and millet as hot cereals, and, being Russian, these dishes connect me emotionally with my childhood memories. I think the emotional aspects - how food is part of our cultural heritage - are very important, plus, clozapine is majorly constipating (there have been deaths from bowel obstruction), so the fiber in whole rye, buckwheat and millet is not something I can trade for fats without "punishment" from the gut.