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The keto diet is high in fat and low in carbs, with a moderate amount of protein.
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Men who are overweight and have low testosterone may benefit from following a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet, a small, preliminary study suggests. Researchers presented their findings this month at the European Congress of Endocrinology after studying the effects of the very low-carb and high-fat diet in 17 middle-age men with obesity.
Study participants shed a substantial amount of weight, helped curb their percentage of body fat, and increased their testosterone levels. “The low-calorie keto diet represents a therapeutic nutritional intervention to treat obesity with a great effect on weight loss and, consequently, on testosterone levels,” says one of the authors of the study, Angelo Cignarelli, MD, PhD, of the section of internal medicine, endocrinology, andrology, and metabolic diseases at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy.
January 6, 2021
Relying on cookbooks for recipe inspiration can help take the guesswork out of eating on a keto diet.
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Are you considering going on the ketogenic diet? Before you start filling your shopping cart with grass-fed butter and bacon, know this: While you’ve likely heard about this high-fat, very low carbohydrate diet and you probably even have a friend or two who have tried it there s still a lot of confusion about what it really takes to follow keto. In general, people say they re on the ketogenic diet, but it s not actually the case a lot of times they re just doing a low-carb plan, says Ginger Hultin, RDN, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a Seattle-based dietitian.
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Beginning a new weight loss diet is not always a simple transition. And the ketogenic diet a trendy low-carbohydrate, high-fat plan that may produce quick results is no exception.
One of the biggest hurdles of going keto is putting and keeping your body in ketosis. Ketosis is a natural metabolic state that results in your body burning fat instead of carbs for fuel (when it doesn’t have enough carbs). So, naturally, to achieve ketosis, you’ll have to say goodbye to most carbs and hello to fat and lots of it.
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It depends on which version of keto you’re doing, but generally, you’ll aim to get 5 to 10 percent of your total calories from carbs on the diet. The goal is to consume only 20 to 50 grams (g) of net carbs per day or less than the equivalent of ½ cup of long-grain brown rice, which contains 25 g of total carbs (and about 23 g net carbs), according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Net carbs, which are an unoffi