Although ketogenic diets are useful for fat loss, while simultaneously sparing muscle loss, they have one significant drawback: they cannot sustain high intensity exercise. Activities like weight training can only use carbohydrates as an energy source, ketones and free fatty acids (FFA) cannot be ...
Ketogenic diets are good for almost anyone looking to lose weight rapidly, increase mental focus, feel more energized and desiring to better control hunger. There is some evidence ketogenic diets may be useful in mitigating the negative effects of epilepsy, acne, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) ...
It’s clear that compliance with very low-carb diets is difficult to maintain for six to 12 months. Many people can’t do it for more than a couple weeks. So, long-term effects haven’t come into play for most users. As with most weight-loss diets, regain of lost weight is a prob...
Are ketogenic diets safe? I wish more people would ask this question about the standard American diet. . . . Yes, ketogenic diets are safe for most people—much safer and healthier than the standard American diet, in fact, but there are important exceptions. Please read my short post "Is...
Ketogenic diets Ketogenic diets consist of high-fat and low-carbohydrate diets (Robblee & Starling, 2019). Ketogenic diets lead to increased ketone body formation (Gazerani, 2020; Gross, Klement, Schoenen, D'Agostino, & Fischer, 2019). The ketone bodies are beneficial in the prevention of mig...
The weight amounts of lipid to the sum of proteins and digestible carbohydrates is 2.6-3.8 to 1. The composition can be dissolved in water to provide a liquid food. The composition is especially useful for use as a nutritional formula for epileptic infants....
But, a keto diet functions differently than most traditional diets, which are higher in carbs. No macro ratio is objectively “right” or “wrong” for everyone. A specific macro ratio or lifestyle may work best for YOU, but it’s up to you to find that out! As you consider different...
The “fatome” is the unique balance of fats we each consume in our diets that influences our health. Our optimal fatomes are unique to us and depend on our genomes, microbiomes, lifestyles, and nutritional perspectives. The top 8 sources of healthy fats are extra virgin avocado oil, g...
Despite the increasing use of very low carbohydrate ketogenic diets (VLCKD) in weight control and management of the metabolic syndrome there is a paucity of research about effects of VLCKD on sport performance. Ketogenic diets may be useful in sports that include weight class divisions and the ...
Keto labels are popping up on restaurant menus and in grocery stores. And yet, the 2018 U.S. News & World Report recently evaluated 40 diets and guess which diet came in dead last? The ketogenic diet. What is going on here? How can a diet land in two polar opposite camps? In a ...