Health
Do ketogenic diets help you lose weight?
Is a ketogenic diet effective for weight loss? The answer depends on whether it achieves a reduction in total kilojoule intake or not.
Sep 20, 2017
0
11
Page 8 - News tagged with carbohydrate diet
Diabetes
The body's own fat-metabolism protects against the harmful effects of sugar
For several years, medical researchers, doctors and dieticians have known that a low carbohydrate diet and plentiful fat can prevent a range of lifestyle and age-related diseases and thus promote healthy aging. But researchers ...
Sep 15, 2017
0
56
Health
What are ketogenic diets? Can they treat epilepsy and brain cancer?
Ketogenic diets are back in the news with claims they are a "cure-all". Research shows that in epilepsy not controlled by current treatment, around 50% of children and adults following ketogenic diets have a reduction in ...
Sep 5, 2017
0
24
Health
Are artificial sweeteners counterproductive when dieting?
Next time you drop an artificial sweetener into your coffee thinking of the weight you'll lose by avoiding sugar, think again.
Aug 1, 2017
0
125
Health
Low-carbohydrate diet could reduce weight gain risk in postmenopausal women
In an analysis of dietary patterns of postmenopausal women using data from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study, researchers at the USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine ...
May 19, 2017
0
1
Neuroscience
JAMA study, clinical trials offer fresh hope for kids with rare brain disease
Anna Gunby can't run around as smoothly as most 4-year-olds because her wobbly legs are affected by a rare brain disease that also hinders her intellect. She can't identify colors. She can't count objects. Her attention span ...
Apr 25, 2017
0
3
Inflammatory disorders
Could a ketogenic diet alleviate gout?
More than 8 million individuals in the United States have gout, a disease that can cause intense recurrent episodes of debilitating pain, inflammation, and fever. The cause of gout is the accumulation of urate crystals in ...
Feb 28, 2017
0
4
Neuroscience
Ketogenic diet shown safe and effective option for some with rare and severest form of epilepsy
In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing ...
Feb 27, 2017
0
4
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Special diet may be boon for kids with Crohn's, colitis
(HealthDay)—Children with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis may be able to achieve relief without medications by eating a special diet, a small study suggests.
Jan 10, 2017
0
19
Genetics
Low-carb diet alleviates inherited form of intellectual disability in mice
Experimenting on mice with a genetic change similar to that found in people with a rare inherited disease called Kabuki syndrome, Johns Hopkins scientists report that a very low-carbohydrate diet can "open up" DNA and improve ...
Dec 19, 2016
0
252
