Is the ultimate low-carb diet—the ketogenic diet—good for you?

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 these days, several of my patients have inquired about the ketogenic diet. Is a ketogenic diet safe for weight loss? Would you advise against it? Despite the present hoopla, a ketogenic diet is not always a novel idea. We have been utilizing it in medicine for for a century to treat drug-resistant epilepsy, particularly in children. Dr. Atkins made his extremely low-carbohydrate weight loss strategy, which started with a very stringent -week ketogenic section, popular in the 1970s. Over time, a similar weight loss strategy was incorporated into other fad diets. What exactly is a ketogenic (keto) diet plan? The body releases ketones into the circulation as a result of a diet, in essence. Most cells opt to use blood sugar, which is derived from carbs, as the primary source of energy for the body. When blood sugar from meals isn't present in the body, we start converting stored lipids into ketone bodies (the method is known as ketosis). Maximum cells will utilise the ketone bodies in...

8 Creative Diets

 


In terms of medicine, health, or physical fitness, weight loss describes a decrease in total body mass brought on by a mean loss of fluid, body fat, or adipose tissue. This may happen as a result of intentional factors like food and exercise or unintentional factors like malnutrition or illness.

Making changes to your food and working out at the same time is advised if you want to lose weight. Since healthy food and exercise go hand in hand, if you only practice one of them, you won't see any change.

Some people believe that weight loss can only occur through exercise and place little emphasis on following a healthy meal plan. However, a food plan is just as crucial as your exercise routine because it regulates your calorie intake in accordance with the calories burned, helping you to reach your weight goals more quickly.

Your diet for losing weight will rely on a number of variables, including your gender, age, exercise routine, metabolic rate, and more. Therefore, rather than depending on other sources, it is advised that you speak with a dietician or nutritionist because doing so won't be effective and occasionally might even be detrimental.

However, the following list of 5 unusual diets that you can learn about includes:

 1. Try the cotton ball diet

You did read that correctly. When it comes to losing weight, people will do everything. Nothing less than the cotton ball diet. On this diet, a person would consume cotton balls. Like, really! In an attempt to satiate hunger, this odd diet calls for soaking up to four or five cotton balls in juice before eating them.

Cotton balls may be little and have no calories, yet they have risky medical effects. This diet may deny the person of nutrients, which would make matters worse. The skin and hair also suffer in such a condition.

2. The Cabbage Soup Diet, 

Although the cabbage soup diet may not sound as absurd as the last one, it is still not for you if you prefer variety.

You will undoubtedly lose weight on this 7-day meal plan because it is a low-calorie and low-fat diet. However, bear in mind that it is also deficient in nourishment. Not only may it deplete your body of nutrients, but it's bland, which makes it difficult to stick to this diet and promotes self-doubt and self-hatred.

3. The Baby Food Diet 

Come on, you're no longer a baby. This diet plan is not a good idea since it not only lowers the daily calorie requirements for the typical woman to 1500 and the average man to 2000, but also leaves out the fibers that are necessary for digestion. The infant food diet encourages little to no chewing, which can also lead to tooth issues.

4. The Tongue Patch Diet

Don't even consider it! It's one of those terrifying procedures that doctors perform in order to profit and promote unhealthful weight loss techniques.

In 800 of these treatments, a doctor in Venezuela sews a patch of plastic mesh to the patients' tongues, according to ABC News. Once the patch is in place, it is challenging to  swallow or eat.

The treatment is accompanied by an 800 calorie diet consisting solely of liquids for one day until the patch is removed.

5. HCG Diet 

The HCG diet has been popular for a long time. A 500-calorie daily diet and injections of a medication called human chorionic gonadatropin make up its recommended routine. This injection is actually a fertility medication made from the urine of pregnant mothers.

Although there are many proponents of this diet, it too has undesirable side effects, including weariness, anger, and depression. Not to mention male breast enlargement.


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