Ketogenic Diet For Weight Loss

While most diet follows the low fat intake formula, the Ketogenic diet follows the opposite one. It concentrates on cutting down the carbohydrate intake and increasing the intake of fat. This diet was developed in the year 1920, to treat the epileptic seizures. After a decade, its popularity dipped but surged again after the mid 1990’s, after a spate of research on this diet. The weight loss feature in Ketogenic diets came in focus only recently due to the proliferation of diets modeled on the Ketogenic diet formula. The basic principle of the diet is to induce ketosis in the body so that the fat is burned to supply the body with energy. Ketosis takes place in the body only during starvation (when the glucose level in the body is low). To achieve this low glucose level, the diet concentrates on taking less of carbohydrates. Once the glucose level starts dipping the body activates its starvation mechanism, and so the fats gets burned. This results in the loss of weight, without the side effects of starvation. To know more on this diet, read the article given below.