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You have successfully lost a good amount of weight on the Keto diet. So, how do you keep the weight off? There is a supplement that’s been studied in a number of human clinical trials called Phase 2 and it has been proven to keep the lost pounds of fat from returning.
According to a new Yale University study published in the journal Science Immunology, mice that were fed a ketogenic diet were better able to combat the flu virus better than mice fed a diet high in carbohydrates.
The Keto diet has become a huge diet trend. It is a low-carb, high-fat diet that aims to put your body in a metabolic state known as ketosis. Ketosis enables your body to use fat for energy, instead of carbohydrates from sugar by producing ketones, or small molecules that are alternative fuel sources for the body when sugar (glucose) is in short supply. Ketones are produced by the liver when you eat very few carbs, moderate amounts of protein, and large amounts of fat.
But many following the diet also celebrate days where they ditch the diet all together and have a “cheat day”. Researchers now say that just one day of not following the diet could cause your body damage. Here’s why.
Code Durrer, UBC Okanagan doctoral student and study first author reports, “We were interested in finding out what happens to the body’s physiology once a dose of glucose is reintroduced. Since impaired glucose tolerance and spikes in blood sugar levels are known to be associated with an increased risk in cardiovascular disease, it made sense to look at what was happening in the blood vessels after a sugar hit.”
Researchers recruited nine healthy young males and had them consume a 75-gram glucose drink before and after a seven-day high fat, low carb diet. The diet consisted of 70% fat, 10% carbohydrates and 20% protein.
“We were originally looking for things like an inflammatory response or reduced tolerance to blood glucose. What we found instead were biomarkers in the blood, suggesting that vessel walls were being damaged by the sudden spike in glucose,” explains Jonathan Little, associate professor in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBCO and study senior author. The culprit? He says the damage is most likely brought on by the body’s own metabolic response to excess blood sugar, which causes blood vessel cells to shed and possibly die.
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When the blood vessels of the healthy, young male participants were analyzed after consuming the glucose drink, the results “looked like they might have come from someone with poor cardiovascular health.”
“My concern is that many of the people going on a keto diet — whether it’s to lose weight, to treat Type 2 diabetes, or some other health reason — may be undoing some of the positive impacts on their blood vessels if they suddenly blast them with glucose,” he says. “Especially if these people are at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease in the first place.”
Cody Durrer, Nia Lewis, Zhongxiao Wan, Philip Ainslie, Nathan Jenkins, Jonathan Little. Short-Term Low-Carbohydrate High-Fat Diet in Healthy Young Males Renders the Endothelium Susceptible to Hyperglycemia-Induced Damage, An Exploratory Analysis. Nutrients, 2019; 11 (3): 489 DOI: 10.3390/nu11030489
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According to a new study published in The Lancet by the Global Burden of Disease, individuals in almost every region of the world could benefit from rebalancing their diets to eat optimal amounts of various foods and nutrients. This finding has been reported after the study estimates that one in five deaths globally (equal to 11 million deaths) are associated with poor diet.
The study evaluated the consumption of major foods and nutrients across 195 countries and quantified the impact of poor diets on death and disease from non-communicable diseases, like diabetes and cancer, between the years 1990 and 2017.
It focused on 15 dietary elements – diets low in fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds, milk, fiber, calcium, omega-3 fatty acids, healthy fats and diets high in red meat, processed meat, sugary beverages, trans fats and salt. Diets high in sodium, low in whole grains and low in fruit together accounted for more than half of all diet-related deaths globally in 2017.
The authors found that intakes of all 15 dietary elements were sub-optimal for almost every region of the world – no region ate the optimal amount of all dietary factors, and not one dietary factor was eaten in the right amounts by all 21 regions of the world.
Study author Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, reports, “This study affirms what many have though for several years — that poor diet is responsible for more deaths than any other risk factor in the world.”
When you lack some of the essential nutrients your body needs to function optimally, you have a nutrient deficiency. This can impact your body in a variety of ways, including impacts to your water balance, enzyme function, digestion and metabolism. Resolving these nutrient deficiencies are important for optimal growth, development and function.
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According to Archana Gogna, MS, CNS, MBA, Director of Nutrition for InVite® Health, “We live in an increasingly polluted environment, loaded with toxins; the soil we grow our food in is often nutrient-depleted and many consume processed, factory-made foods supplying scant nutrients. Add that depletion with less time spent outdoors, minimal exercise, prescription drugs and medications, and chronic stress and the result is that many individuals are truly nutrient depleted.”
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