Fat diets come and go, and a lot of them even fade away then reappear with a different

name or a different spin.

Today's diet of interest is the caveman diet, aka the keto diet, aka the paleo diet.

Has a fat diet finally proven mainstream dietetic knowledge wrong and shown that it is indeed

impossible to follow a set of prescribed instructions and have the fat melt off your body and stay

off.

The keto diet is coming right up on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The keto diet.

No long as the diet gurus create websites and publish books, there will always be grist

for the mill keeping Skeptoid supplied with fat diets to discuss.

They come and go and always have and always will, the paleo diet, the low inflammation

diet, the atkins diet, the blood type diet, the gluten-free diet, the GMO-free diet, and

so on.

And the one we're all bombarded with today is the keto diet.

This claimed not only to produce weight loss but also to provide a range of other surprising

health benefits, which sounds like the familiar trope accompanying most fat diets.

However, some evidence suggests that there's some truth behind at least a few of the claims

made by the keto diet.

Today, we're going to sink our teeth into this fatty subject and separate the fact from

the fiction.

First of all, we'll cover the simplified version of what the keto diet is.

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