For the purposes of this guide, we refer to any voluntary restriction of eating as intermittent fasting. This has been shown to result in weight loss: British Medical Journal Effect of breakfast on weight and energy intake: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials [strong evidence] Most longer studies on fasting investigate restricting calories… Read More »
The ketogenic diet is all about quick weight loss. How does it do that? Proof: One study found that the keto diet could actually burn 10 times more fat than other plans. But the keto diet doesn’t come without sacrifice—specifically in the carb category. For comparison’s sake, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that 45… Read More »
In the four-year study, the Hopkins Children’s team followed epileptic children with intractable seizures on the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet designed to control such seizures. While most children developed high cholesterol after starting the diet, cholesterol gradually improved in nearly half of them, returning to normal or near-normal levels, with or without modifications to their… Read More »
Without animal based products being consumed as time moves into weeks there will be a shift in bowel function which will either be a more regular healthy pattern, or there could be increased bloating, wind and loose motions; this change is due to the higher fiber content and the simultaneous increase in carbohydrates that will… Read More »