Keto diet & its health benefits

Keto diet & its health benefits

Keto diet & its health benefits
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The ketogenic diet, or Keto diet, in short, is a high-fat, low-carb diet that is recommended mostly for weight loss. A ketogenic diet helps improve metabolism and overall health. It lowers blood sugar and insulin levels. Keto diet reduces the intake of carbohydrates and replaces it with fat consumption.

The decrease in carbs enables the body to perform ketosis. This procedure stimulates the body for fast fat burning for energy. It turns fat into ketones.

Ketosis involves the production of ketone out of fat in the body and using them for energy rather than carbs.

A ketogenic diet helps losing weight meanwhile fulfilling the nutritious requirement.
Professionals say that the ketogenic diet is much helpful than the normal weight-loss diets. It loses 3 times more weight than the usual ones. In addition to this, it also regulates appropriate blood sugar levels.

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Apart from weight loss, the keto diet helps to lose fats, which ultimately helps to treat type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and metabolic syndrome.

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Health benefits

Keto diet provides other noticeable benefits. It helps to prevent different conditions such as acne, heart diseases, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, Polycystic ovary syndrome, and Parkinson’s disease.

Types of keto diet

Ketogenic diets are of several types. However, experts recommend the following kinds.

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The standard ketogenic diet (SKD); It involves very low-carb, moderate protein and a high-fat diet.
The cyclical ketogenic diet (CKD): It involves a specific period for high and low carb.
The targeted ketogenic diet (KTD): It involves the addition of carbs around workouts.
High-protein ketogenic diet: This is similar to the standard one, but experts suggest more proportion of protein.

Any person having weight issues and other stated above can start using keto diet. However, one should ask nutritionists or consultants to get best suggestions related to diet and proportion of meal.

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