Keto Diet – Debunking the Myth
Introduction
Obesity continues to be a major worldwide health problem, despite the efforts of the medical community. Intensive lifestyle interventions can achieve weight loss that is sustained over the long-term. Diet is an important component of any lifestyle intervention programme. The dietary plan that restricts energy and fat is the most common strategy and based on it, several other dietary strategies have been proposed. However, the very-low-carbohydrate, high-fat keto diet differs from these approaches.
In my post Diet Plan for Weight Loss – It’s going to be a journey, I had described various options for the treatment of obesity. As highlighted there, the core principle of any obesity treatment is that it must shift the balance between energy intake and energy expenditure – treating obesity requires creating a state of negative energy balance, therefore a reduction in energy intake is the primary factor that needs to be addressed in a dietary intervention designed to promote weight loss. In the above post, under dietary interventions for the management of obesity, I had briefly discussed the various calorie reduction strategies including reduced-calorie diets, low-calorie diets (LCD), very-low-calorie diets (VLCD) and #keto diets. In the above referred to post, I had discussed reduced-calorie diets in details; in my post, Very-Low-Calorie Diet – All you Need to Know, I had discussed the LCDs and VLCDs. Here, in this post, I shall be discussing the keto diets.
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