{"id":2132,"date":"2019-10-09T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T09:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2021-03-31T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:36:25","slug":"this-is-your-body-on-the-keto-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/this-is-your-body-on-the-keto-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Your Body On The Keto Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The\u00a0ketogenic diet\u00a0isn\u2019t new. But over the past few years, it has emerged as one of the most popular and polarizing\u00a0ways to lose weight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The eating plan has many people slashing their carb intake and loading up on healthy fats in an effort to reach the holy grail of the keto diet: ketosis, or the metabolic state in which the body starts burning its own fat for fuel.<\/p>\n

Here are the basics of how things go down when you\u2019re on keto: Your body\u2019s cells typically get their energy from carbohydrates. But when you\u2019re on keto, \u201cwhat you\u2019re really doing is starving your body of carbohydrates so it needs to go to the next energy source, which is fat,\u201d explained\u00a0Rabia De Latour, a gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at New York University\u2019s Langone Health. Your body then burns that fat.<\/p>\n

The diet doesn\u2019t restrict you in terms of calories or the amount of food you eat.\u00a0Instead, it\u2019s all about\u00a0what\u00a0<\/em>you eat. Most keto plans include lots of seafood, red meat, poultry, cheese, low-carb vegetables (sorry carrot and corn fans), eggs, plain yogurt and fats (hello, avocado). You\u2019re instructed to avoid foods with sugar and carbs, like many fruits, grains and legumes.<\/p>\n

Because of this, people who try keto can experience a range of side effects and symptoms as their bodies adapt to the low-carb, high-fat style of eating. Here are some of them:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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