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A ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat diet that can be effective for weight loss and certain health conditions, as demonstrated in many studies.
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It involves drastically reducing carbohydrate intake and replacing it with fat, which puts the body into a metabolic state called ketosis.
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The keto diet can help with weight loss and may have other health benefits, such as reducing the frequency of epileptic seizures in children
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, and improving type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome.
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Foods to eat on a keto diet include high-fat foods such as fatty fish, eggs, nuts, and avocados, and foods to avoid include sugar, soda, pastries, and white bread.
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Summary
The ketogenic diet is a very low carb, high fat diet that shares many similarities with the Atkins and low carb diets.
It involves drastically reducing carbohydrate intake and replacing it with fat. This reduction in carbs puts your body into a metabolic state called ketosis .
The Ketogenic Diet: A Detailed Beginner’s Guide to Keto - Healthline
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The keto diet is a medical diet that focuses on fat, which supplies as much as 90% of daily calories. It is primarily used to reduce the frequency of epileptic seizures in children, but has been tried for weight loss, with only short-term results being studied and the results being mixed. The keto diet has numerous risks, including an increase in LDL cholesterol, nutrient deficiency, liver problems, kidney problems, and cancer.
Should you try the keto diet? - Harvard Health
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The ketogenic — or keto — diet emphasizes high-fat foods and severely restricts carbohydrates. In fact, about 60% to 80% of calories should come from fat, according to Jason Ewoldt,…
Is the keto diet for you? A Mayo expert weighs in
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“Ketogenic” is a term for a low-carb diet (like the Atkins diet). The idea is for you to get more calories from protein and fat and less from carbohydrates. You cut back most on the carbs that are easy to digest, like sugar, soda, pastries, and white bread
Keto Diet: What is a Ketogenic Diet? - WebMD
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In the keto diet , the goal is to swap out the glucose calories with fat. In a typical keto diet , your nutrition centers on fatty foods. They'll make up anywhere…
Keto Diet: A Beginner's Guide - WebMD
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