A balanced diet ( Western Diet ) is what's giving people Western diseases, T2 diabetes , obesity, etc. ' balanced' is vague, 'cause what's right for you isn't necessarily right for me.
No a balanced diet isn't given people diabetes or causing obesity. That's what happens when people don't eat a balanced diet, eat excessively etc..
Tell me what's normal, what's healthy and balanced?
Well there are plenty of examples - I didn't think this needed to be explained:
here is a quick one from google
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/
I get that there are short term benefits but the long term effects aren't so clear, there are risks of nutritional deficiencies if you are restricting food groups etc... potentially unknown effects on the gut microbiome etc... do you use artificial sweeteners etc..?
I don't see the advantage tbh...not at the moment at least, beyond maybe doing it for a short period of time for something specific like weight loss - even then you could just go into calorie deficit in a regular, otherwise balanced diet anyway.
I'm not saying it is definitely a bad thing I'm just not sure why people do it rather than just eating healthily in the first place? It just seems like a bit of a fad that is all.