Is Ketogenic Diet Superior to Standard American Diet for Diabetes and Weight Loss

Dr Kiel quickly reviews a study that compares the ketogenic diet and standard american diet and the effect on diabetes, metabolic syndrome, weight loss. SportsMedReview https://www.sportsmedreview.com/by-joint/ Wiki Sports Medicine https://wikism.org/Main_Page Diabetes and it’s precursor metabolic syndrome are a public health crisis in the United States and in other parts of the world. The CDC estimates that 30.3 million Americans have diabetes and another 84.1 million (33%) adults have metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes. Treating and preventing these diseases is the goal of physicians and the subject of much research across the country. One of the major areas of interest and one that is particularly difficult to study is the role of diet and how to change dietary decisions that lead to these diseases. In healthy individuals with normal glucose regulation, an individual can switch between burning fat and carbohydrates seamlessly depending on their dietary intake. It has been proposed decreased insulin sensitivity leading to impaired fat breakdown contributes to metabolic syndrome. Ketosis is essentially a shift from carbohydrates to fat for energy production. The authors of this study wanted to compare a ketogenic diet to american diets to see if it could have positive effects on markers of diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

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