When I started reading online to support my adventure into a low-carb, high-fat diet, I wanted to make sure I wasn’t killing myself. Believe me, you will still find an incredible amount of info that claims that you will die immediately by simply breathing-in around saturated fat or looking at a piece of red meat. However, if you really didn’t believe there was another part to the story then you likely wouldn’t be here researching high fat diets in the first place. When you follow doctors and researchers on Twitter and the studies start flying and the debates heat up, you either miss a lot of content or you adjust and expand your vocabulary. I hope this list will help give you a leg up on your new exploration of “Nutrition Twitter”.
(List in Progress)
Abbreviations and Acronyms
CFS – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Tired all the time, diagnosis of exclusion.
HIIT – High Intensity Interval Training. It’s any intense exercise that cycles a period of maximum effort followed by a low-intensity “rest period”. The premise is to keep moving for both cardiovascular effect and to push for maximum performance in the shortest period of time.
LCHF – Low-Carb, High-Fat. Diet description.
LC – Low-Carb (without the High-Fat). Diet description.
JERF – Just Eat Real Food. As it sounds, avoid processed foods, basically.
PKD – Paleolithic Ketogenic Diet – Another word for Carnivory or Zero Carb. Diet description. Meat-only diet.
RT – Resistance Training. Lifting weights or body movements for muscular strength (ex push-ups).
VLCKD – Very Low-Carb, Ketogenic Diet. Diet description. As it sounds.
WFPB – Whole-Food, Plant-Based. Diet description. This pops up now and again, mostly in Twitter arguments.
WFMB – Whole-Food, Meat-Based. Diet description. Possibly coined by @CaliTalian.
WOE – Way of Eating, to replace the banal term, diet. Diets are temporary, WOEs are for life!
ZC – Zero Carb, also Paleolithic Ketogenic Diet or Carnivory. Diet description. Animal-based diet. It’s not quite zero carb but pretty darn close.
Medical and Scientific Terms
Hormesis – Essentially the medical term for “that which does not kill you, makes you stronger.”
Orhtorexia – An obsession with food and eating “pure”, from either an avoidance of that deemed harmful or exclusively that which is believed to be healthy or both.