mdginzo wrote:
> Dana Carpender wrote:
>
>>mdginzo wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Do you think vegetarianism is a dangerous fad diet? You know, the need
>>>
>>>for B12 supplements and all.
>>>
>>>Yes. Humans were meant to be omnivores. But the need for one vitamin
>>>is not nearly as bad as being on a diet where you have to worry about
>>>ketones as well as not getting enough nutrients.
>>
>>Why would I worry about ketones? They're a perfectly normal byproduct
>>of fat metabolism.
>
>
> Because you can go into a coma.
>

You're confusing benign dietary ketosis with diabetic ketoacidosis.

Repeat after me: "DKA is caused by lack of insulin, DKA is caused by
lack of insulin" over and over.

Vicki