Review Article
Year: 2019 | Month: November | Volume: 6 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 425-431
Is it Worth Losing Weight at the Expense of Your Well-Being? An Overview on the Complications of Ketodiet?
Blessy M Thankachan1, Mebin Alias2, R. Sambath Kumar2
1Post Graduate Student, 2Lecturer,
Department of Pharmacy Practice, J.K.K.Nattraja College of Pharmacy, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India,
Corresponding Author: Blessy M Thankachan
ABSTRACT
Ketogenic diet is one of the most viral trends when it comes to weight loss. It consists of high-fat, low-protein, low carbohydrate diet. It is established that this diet has many health benefits especially in decreasing the seizure episodes and in losing weight. Even though it aids the following, it has many short term and long term repercussions. It exhibits short term complications such as nutritional deficiency due to its diet restrictive nature and cardiovascular complications since this diet is rich are fat. Some of the long term complications that are observed with ketogenic diet are decreased bone health, kidney health and risk of cancer occurrence due low carbohydrate intake which restricts milk and other calcium rich products, increased protein intake and lack of fruits and vegetables in the diet. Hence there needs to be more long term research conducted in order for us to know the positive and negative outcomes.
Key words: Keto- diet, weight loss, Ketogenic, low carbohydrate, long term side effects, short term side effects
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