Posted on 12/23/2017 3:04:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
Pretty impressive.
Many people who follow the ketogenic diet (a.k.a. keto) are obsessed with its ability to help you lose weight quickly—and keep it off. Now, new research has found that the low-carb diet may have one especially huge perk going for it: It might burn 10 times more fat than other diets.
That’s the major finding from research published in the journal Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews. For the study, scientists took 30 adults who had been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, a group of health conditions that increase the risk of developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. They then randomly put them in three groups: One group ate a ketogenic diet but didn’t exercise, another ate a standard American diet and didn’t exercise, and a third that ate a standard American diet and exercised for 30 minutes a day for up to five days a week.
Here’s what they found: In 10 weeks, the group that was on the ketogenic diet had “significant” changes in their weight, body fat percentage, BMI, hemoglobin A1c (a test that measures a person’s blood sugar), and ketones (the result of your body burning fat for energy). Their resting metabolic rate, which is the rate that your body body burns energy when you’re not doing anything, was more than 10 times that of people who ate a standard diet. “All variables for the ketogenic group out-performed those of the exercise and non-exercise groups,” the researchers wrote in the study. (Learn how bone broth can help you lose weight with Women's Health's Bone Broth Diet.)
See what happened when one woman tried the ketogenic diet:
In case you’re not familiar with it, the keto diet is a high-fat, low-carb diet that encourages followers to get a moderate amount of protein. Carbs are generally replaced with fats, and it’s thought that this shifts your body into a metabolic state known as ketosis.
The keto diet generally shuns sugar, processed foods, low-fat foods, grains and gluten, high-carb fruit, and vegetable oils. Instead, followers are encouraged to eat plenty of non-starchy vegetables, lean meats and fish, full-fat dairy, and nuts and seeds.
It’s worth pointing out that this study is small and it focused on people with a health condition—not otherwise healthy people. Still, the findings are definitely worth thinking about if you've been mulling over going keto.
Another report to make women feel uncomfortable about them selves. How many will jump on board this one?
I tried this diet once for two weeks. It definitely works extremely quickly for weight loss, but it would give me a terrible headache everyday so I gave it up.
Keto aka low carb is legit
Ketogenic is essentially Atkins.
P.S. It’s women making other women feel bad. Also, they feel bad because they’re weak mentally.
bfl
I can’t read the whole thing, it doesn’t like my ad blocker; but why would you say that?
This diet has been around for decades in one form or another, and it works very well for many people. My husband lost 65 lbs. and has kept it off for several years now.
TV ads have always made me laugh.
They tell the women they smell,they are constipated overweight with yellow teeth and the frigen list goes on.
Madison ave loves it
See # 8 thats why
you need to dr=ink a lot more water on keto, and some people eipiercne carb withdrawal called the keto flu.
“Madison ave loves it”
Because it works.
Easiest diet in the world that actually works.....no carbs no sugar. The weight falls off. I just can’t get hubby to stick to it because he doesn’t really like veggies and an almost pure meat diet is super expensive. Lol
I’ve started eating low carb, high fat in the past 3 years, lost 15 pounds and have kept it off. If I exercise (walking) it’s even easier to keep it off. My goal was to bring my numbers for diabetes down to where I didn’t have to take the medication anymore. I don’t take the medicine anymore!
And before that, Atkins was the Stillman Water Diet. Yes it works and there is nothing new under the sun.
>I tried this diet once for two weeks. It definitely works extremely quickly for weight loss, but it would give me a terrible headache everyday so I gave it up.
You weren’t getting enough sodium. Your sodium requirements go up quite a bit on keto and often just extra salting food isn’t enough. When your body can’t enough sodium it can’t manage water in the body, thus leading to headaches from dehydration.
It’s often called the keto flu:
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq#wiki_what_is_.201Cketo_flu.201D_and_how_long_will_i_have_it.3F
Simple rule for me...outside meat, if it’s brown I leave it alone. When I started sticking to this I was astonished at the super market, you get outside of the fruit/veg/deli area almost every aisle is garbage. It was a whole new way to look at food and this is what a lot of people eat the most.
It’s not a pure-meat diet, unless it’s high-fat meat.
Other good elements are eggs, cheese, sour cream, butter, bacon, peanuts.
I ate nothing but spinach and cucumber + Kale juice for 30 days and lost 37 and a half pounds. That was a year ago and only gained 7 pounds of that back.
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