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5 Common Mistakes to Avoid in Ketogenic Diet

The ketogenic diet focuses on eating very low amounts of carbohydrate and high amounts of fat and has gained the public’s interest for its potential role in promoting weight loss and improving metabolic health. However, with its benefits closely tied to the stringent restriction on carbohydrate intake, the ketogenic diet can easily be rendered ineffective and difficult to follow through small deviations. Here are common mistakes to...

What Is Carb Cycling?

What Is Carb Cycling? Restriction of carbohydrate intake has been a subject of great interest to both the public and the research community.1 Studies of low-carbohydrate diets such as the ketogenic diet have shown improvements in weight and metabolic profiles through inducing a state of ketosis. However, such diets have largely been scrutinized in the athletic community,...

Glycemic Control: Key to Metabolic Health

Metabolic health is often defined by what it is not: the absence of conditions or factors that increase the risk of cardiometabolic disorders. Experts typically describe being metabolically healthy as the absence of metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, diabetes, and/or high blood pressure (ie, hypertension).

Can Ketogenic Diet Help With PCOS?

What Is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)? Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age, affecting approximately 10-15% of women globally.1–3 It is often characterized by ovarian cysts, irregular ovulation, irregular menstruation, hyperandrogenism (ie, excess of testosterone), reversal of the ratio of female sex hormones called follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing...

How Does the “Yo-Yo Diet” Affect Metabolic Health?

What Is Weight Cycling or “Yo-Yo”? A successful weight loss is usually defined as a >10% loss of initial body weight maintained for at least one year.1 However, most individuals regain the lost weight, with studies showing that nearly 80% of individuals who voluntarily lost weight will regain some or all of it back within a year.2...