Ketogenic Diet Journal Article

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Ketogenic diet journal article. A century ago the ketogenic diet was a standard of care in diabetes used to prolong the life of children with type 1 diabetes and to control the symptoms of type 2 diabetes in adults because all forms of diabetes share a basic pathophysiological problem carbohydrate intolerance restriction of carbohydrate on a ketogenic diet typically 50 g d with 70 fat often produced rapid and. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership please browse to your society journal select an article to view and follow the instructions in this box. However it also causes a substantial rise in low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and many physicians are therefore hesitant to endorse it. The ketogenic diet causes a rapid and sensible weight loss along with favourable biomarker changes such as a reduction in serum hemoglobin a1c in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2.

Ketogenic diet can reduce body weight and its short and long term eff ect on health. Noting that ketogenic diets have elicited controversy david ludwig new balance foundation obesity prevention center boston children s hospital and harvard medical school provides a comprehensive review published in the journal of nutrition of evidence based studies on the effects of ketogenic diets for a wide range of health conditions. This paper systematically reviews the evidence regarding the effect of the endurance athlete s ketogenic diet eakd on maximal oxygen consumption vo2 max and secondary performance outcomes. The ketogenic diet has become popular among endurance athletes as a performance enhancer.

It has been in use for nearly 70 years. The ketogenic diet is a high fat low carbohydrate diet that results in ketosis. An introduction to the ketogenic diet a treatment for pediatric epilepsy videotape. Ketogenic diet contain very low carbohydrates 20 50 gram per day high fat and enough protein.

Santa monica ca charlie foundation to help cure pediatric epilepsy 1994. A ketogenic very low carbohydrate klc diet and a nonketogenic low carbohydrate nlc diet. Several modifications of the diet s original form including the medium chain triglyceride mct diet have been made in an attempt to overcome the obstacles of compliance and acceptance which have been critical factors in determining its success. The ketogenic diet is the best way by which ketosis is achieved and ketosis is clearly a natural human metabolic process that is advantageous for healthy development of an infant and beneficial for healthy body recovery and maintenance for adults.

In this age of the obesity epidemic some careful work reported in the may issue of the journal by johnston et al provides more information to help solve the problem with strict controls in a 6 wk trial they directly compared 2 diets.