Source: medicaldaily.com<\/p>\n
It\u2019s December and Christmas is right around the corner. For many, and most especially kids, this means lots of food and eating in between spending time with the family and joining the holiday rush to get some gifts. However, for others, this means planning their current diet around the holiday and how their lifestyle can help them safely navigate the Christmas season.<\/p>\n
The Keto Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n The diet in question is called the Keto diet, which is one of, if not the most famous diet strategy that people are jumping aboard onto these days. As an ultra-high fat, low-carb diet, it will have you eating steak, vegetables, eggs, bacons and avocados while making sure you avoid pizza, birthday cake, fruits, bread and pasta.<\/p>\n And for what reason?\u00a0To achieve ketosis\u00a0of course, which is more or less the holy grail of fat-burning states that people following the diet hope to reach. A natural metabolic state, ketosis involves the body producing ketone bodies out of fat, and then proceeding to use them for energy instead of the usual carbohydrates. As a result, people can easily lose weight while in ketosis. In addition, it\u00a0 has also other possible health benefits, such as lowering the risk of heart disease, acne, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cancer, Parkinson\u2019s disease and Alzheimer\u2019s, although all of these are still being studied.<\/p>\n Extreme Diet Phenomenon<\/strong><\/p>\n According to Vox senior health reporter Julia Belluz, ketogenesis is just one of the processes that we\u2019ve evolved to be able to handle. This is because our bodies has the ability to adapt to whatever we\u2019re putting in them and use them as an energy source if possible.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd when we\u2019re in ketogenesis, the liver starts to break fat down both from the food we\u2019re eating and from the fat that\u2019s stored in our body into this usable energy source called ketone bodies,\u00a0or ketones for short. And basically ketones can stand in as glucose for fuel when we\u2019re not eating carbs,\u201d she said in a recent podcast.<\/p>\n Aside from losing weight, Belluz explained that its potential to stop diseases is more exciting.<\/p>\n \u201cKeto does have this real potential as a treatment for a few diseases. And that\u2019s the really serious and fascinating scientific exploration that\u2019s happening right now. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1104,193,273,139,835,1384],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss-gain","tag-carbohydrates","tag-foods","tag-health","tag-keto-diet","tag-ketogenic-diet","tag-vegetables"],"yoast_head":"\n