Posted on 09/04/2019 2:10:56 PM PDT by BobL
KETO diet methods are becoming increasingly more popular among those looking to lose weight. However, a nutritionist has warned that dieters should avoid the plan long term.
Low carb diets have been popular for some time among those who want to lose weight fast.
The keto diet is a particularly high fat version.
However, an expert has warned that the diet may not be safe longterm.
Although, many swear by this method to help them drop the pounds. The keto diet, or ketogenic diet, is a low-carb diet plan.
Dieters may only eat low carb foods, such as lean meat and dairy. The idea of the diet is to put the body into a state of ketosis.
This is an alternative metabolic rate in which the body burns fat instead of carbohydrates to survive.
However, the diet was not originally used for weight loss. In fact, it was used as a cure for epilepsy.
Hebe Mills, who is an Associate Nutritionist, told Express.co.uk: "The Ketogenic diet has been used since the 1920s as a medical therapy diet for epilepsy patients that do not respond to anti-epilepsy drugs (AEDs) to aid seizure control."
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I found that I lost a lot of weight with both of them. However, once I got off of them, I gained just as fast, and had accompanying health problems, like blood clots in the legs, pulmonary embolism, and Type 2 diabetes.
So the lesson to be drawn from that is....
“A few warnings, but nothing specific - just another ‘nutritionist’ (albeit good looking, for once) saying Keto is bad, but not being specific as to why it’s bad.”
Are you saying this thread is worthless without photos?
Nope. Diabetes is an inability to control glucose, which worsens with prolonged exposure to glucose. The cure is to remove the glucose.
If a ketogenic diets removes 90% of the food you've been eating then you've been eating crap.
Calories aren't how the body regulates weight.
“I had to look up “Associate Nutritionist”. Apparently she’s a student.”
A Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr) has typically graduated from a BSc (Hons) or MSc in a nutritional science within the last 3 years. A Registered Associate Nutritionist can prove underpinning scientific knowledge in evidence-based nutrition but has yet to acquire significant experience of the practical application of this knowledge.
http://www.associationfornutrition.org/Default.aspx?tabid=223
Don’t take advice from the deep state medical complex.
It helps to think “lifestyle” instead of “diet”. It is pretty silly to live a way that gets you fat, then diet, and then go back to the way of living that made you fat - and expect to stay skinny!
My husband and I went low carb in May of 2018. He lost 90 pounds and I lost the 20 I wanted to lose.
The change in diet has become a way of life now. The cravings for sugary foods has dissipated a lot.
What I have noticed lately is how much more energy we both have..... how good I feel at 68. That didn’t happen immediately. I think it takes awhile for the body to heal from all the damage sugar and other processed foods have done to the body.
Oh yes, he was diagnosed as pre-diabetic before he went on Keto. Doctor says that he is no longer prediabetic. My blood tests, including bad cholesterol etc improved.
It works. I highly recommend it. You can’t do it half way, or it wont work.
Agreed. I’ve been on this eating plan for 8 months. I’ve haven’t felt this good since high school and I’m at that same weight since months 2 of this plan. I’m 66 and male. I don’t miss a thing, still drink a bit of wine in the weekends. The things I cut out, I miss when I think about them such as bread. But I don’t crave bread. I crave meat. And I get to eat all the things modern medicine had said was bad, mainly streaks ribs and bacon. And eggs. I’ve cured my type two diabetes, my blood sugar is completely stable. I have zero hypoglycemic attacks. Zero inflammation now in my knees and hips. Cholesterol is even pretty good. Folks, as a starter check out Dr Ken Berry on YouTube. He will get you started. Enjoy your life again. I promise you, you will. And trust me, I thought this type of eating sounded insane. And then I tried it because I was just tired of feeling lousy all the time.
Please put me on the Keto Ping list.
Jonty, you are not well informed, and the author of the original article is also poorly informed.
Healthy fats do not cause health problems. Healthy fats are olive oil, coconut oil, beef tallow, grass fed butter, bacon fat, chicken fat, etc.
Seed and vegetable oils are highly inflammatory, and will harm your health over time. These are not part of a well-balanced keto diet.
Combining unhealthy manufactured oils with carbs can and do create disease. If one is unwilling to keep carbs low ALL THE TIME, they shouldn’t blame th keto diet for any consequent health issues.
Do more research before you opine on a subject you clearly do not understand. It is easily available for reputable universities, highly respected pphysicians, and ample actual clinical trials.
Dr. Eric Westman, Dr. Jason Fung, Dr. Stephen Phinney, and many more. Goto you tube, and look these wonderful men up, also look up all the low carb conferences.
Then come back and apologize for speaking nonsense.
Keto is working well for my hubby & I. We’ve lost weight & I am reducing my insulin every few days. I’ll be off it in a month or so.
It’s easy to be creative & varied with our meals. Even once in a while Keto ice cream! It tastes pretty good.
No craving for sweets like we use to. It does require lots of home cooking. We use far fresher ingredients than ever before. We are working with a nutritionist. I think people (experts) must be in the pocket of big pharma when they speak out against it. Just my opinion & experience.
Rethink your decision to have mashed potatoes and stuffing at Thanksgiving. Look for my earlier post containing the people to follow on you tube. People who “have a cheat day” go right back to burning glucose and sabotage all the wonderful effects of ketosis.
People eating carbs on a restricted-calorie diet lose water and muscle. People eating a well-formulated keto diet lose fat, along with their cravings and excessive appetite.
Why do that?
True
One difference between Atkins and Keto is that protein is limited on Keto. But,
Atkins was a pioneer, and today’s keto researchers and doctors stand on his shoulders.
I have had great success with low-carb lifestyle. Or more to the point, almost nothing with added sugar.
Mashed cauliflower - with a bit of good Irish grass-fed butter - is one of my go-to side dishes.
I just started it. I think it is ok for older people but not young.
Basically found that when I sleep my organs shut down, and I wake up with very bad hypoglycemia. My usual reaction was to eat. But all I needed was wake up my organs with a glass of water and a work out.
Amazingly, waking up at .5 in sugar and going for a run after see it climb to .8 because my body is drawing energy from wherever it can on itself. Eating in the morning at the moment I wake my system ccould yield to a fight between the body drawing from its fat cells and rushing to store breakfast food to the fat cells.
It screws up everything and can cause glycemic roller coaster and that “insulin resisance”
It is not insulting resistance imo but the body getting confused.
When young this is fine because the metabolism is so high, but when older eating strategies must be modified.
All the keto does is keep fed with proteine so the body does not got after it’s own muscles for energy. The low carbs are essential too imo because they are the number one cause of the system fighting itself and signals and getting out of tune.
I’d rather stay at .9 sugar levels after eating low carbs than risk shooting up using carbs at this point.
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