Is Your Favorite Fad Diet Faulty?
Mention of the keto diet is everywhere—in newsletters, on billboards, in sponsored Google searches and splayed on a loud sign when you enter your local grocery store. Svelte celebrities like Halle Berry, Vanessa Hudgens, Kourtney Kardashian and Tim Tebow credit the low-carbohydrate “carb,” for short), high-fat diet for boosting energy and promoting weight loss because it forces the body into a state of ketosis (when your body has so few carbs, it uses fat your fat for energy). Still, experts can’t decide if the trend is actually good for you.
“A practical KD can be a healthy diet,” says Dr. Alvin Berger, MS, Ph. D, adjunct professor of nutrition, University of Minnesota, CEO of SciaEssentials, and co-founder of LifeSense Products. Berger believes that keto has many benefits over the standard American diet (SAD). If you’re following a clean keto diet, you’re likely not eating as many added sugars or refined carbs, and likely eating more whole foods. “As the high carb-low fat dietary approach has been a miserable failed experiment contributing to the current obesity/metabolic syndrome epidemic, I favor a practical high healthy-fat, low-carb, ‘keto-friendly’ diet and life style,” Berger says.