Ketogenic Diet Essay

The document discusses the benefits of ketogenic and low carb diets for diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It notes that low carb diets help reduce blood sugar spikes in diabetes patients, lowering insulin needs. One study found improvements in weight, blood pressure, liver function, and cholesterol in diabetes patients on a low carb diet after 9 months. For cardiovascular disease patients, low carb diets were shown to alleviate risk factors like high triglyceride levels in studies using rat models. Overall, various studies demonstrate the positive health effects of low carb, high fat diets.

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Ketogenic and low carb diet is the best option for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases

patients.

One of the main health problems of the world current society is about the many diseases
caused by owerweight and the rigorous diets as an alternative in its treatment. Previously,
the traditional diets had in common that the patients may include fat as minimum as
possible in their food, or even avoid it at all because of the idea of a negative impact on
health. Over time, this idea was changing in the opinions of food health experts. Now on
days, there are many different diets which put healthy fats as the main factor to gain health
from a different way. Actually, this kind of diets (Keto diet or Low Carb) are used as helper in
the treatment of many diseases. This essay shows the benefits of the ketogenic diet and the
consumption of healthy fats in the suffering of different diseases.
Ketogenic / low carb diet have been used in the treatment of diseases like diabetes,
nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, polycystic ovary syndrome, narcolepsy, epilepsy, and
others.( 1 Annals of Nutrition and Metabolysm) . In diabetes patients a Lower dietary
carbohydrate intake can help ericate large spikes of sugar in blood, reducing the need for
insulin. The Brithish Medical Journal mentioned a pojrct made by clinical health
Psychologyst David Unwin and his wife Jen Unwin, in which patients with type 2 diabetes or
impaired glucose tolerance were advised to reduce the feeding of carbohydrates and eat
more healthy fats, vegetables and protein and after nine months the results were
improvements in weight, waist circumference, blood pressure, liver function and cholesterol
despite.
On the other hand, the consumption of healthy fats and low carbohydrate intake have had a
beneficial impact on the health of patients with cardiovascular diseases. in an experiment
carried out with groups of rats (3) where they were fed a traditional diet (low fat) and a low
carb diet, one of its main results was that restrictive feeding in conjunction with a low
carbohydrate diet or ketogenic has results alleviating cardiovascular disease risk factors
such as serum TAG level.
As we can see, the results of various studies on a ketogenic or low-carbohydrate diet have
shown the multiple benefits that this type of diet has in the face of different diseases,
revealing that the intake of quality healthy fats has positive effects on health.

Effects of Very-Low-Carbohydrate (Horsemeat or Beef-Based) Diets and Restricted Feeding on

Weight Gain, Feed and Energy Efficiency, as well as Serum Levels of Cholesterol,
Triacylglycerol, Glucose, Insulin and Ketone Bodies in Adult Rats on JSTOR

(1) Low-Carbohidrate Diets: A matter of Love or Hate, 2011

Diabetes Team of the Year adaptable and supportive on JSTOR

2* BMJ: British Medical Journal
Vol. 348 (14 Apr 2014 - 20 Apr 2014) (3 pages)

3* (Effects of Very-Low-Carbohydrate (Horsemeat or Beef-Based) Diets and Restricted

Feeding on Weight Gain, Feed and Energy Efficiency, as well as Serum Levels of
Cholesterol, Triacylglycerol, Glucose, Insulin and Ketone Bodies in Adult Rats) 2009.