Abstract
Many negative comments have been made about the use of ketogenic diets (KDs) and experts today
believe that the best way to lose weight is by cutting back on calories, chiefly in the form of fat. The
international consensus is that carbohydrates are the basis of the food pyramid for a healthy diet.
However, this review will clarify that low-carbohydrate diets are, from a practical and physiological point
of view, a much more effective way of losing weight. It is also argued that such diets provide metabolic
advantages, for example: they help to preserve muscle mass, reduce appetite, diminish metabolic
efficiency, induce metabolic activation of thermogenesis and favor increased fat loss and even a greater
reduction in calories. These diets are also healthier because they promote a non-atherogenic lipid profile,
lower blood pressure and decrease resistance to insulin with an improvement in blood levels of glucose
and insulin. Low-carbohydrate diets should therefore be used to prevent and treat type II diabetes and
cardiovascular problems. Such diets also have neurological and antineoplastic benefits and diet-induced
ketosis is not associated with metabolic acidosis, nor do such diets alter kidney, liver or heart functions.
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