10 Facts About Low-carbohydrate diet

An extreme form of low-carbohydrate diet called the ketogenic diet was first established as a medical diet for treating epilepsy.

Low-carbohydrate diet advocates including Gary Taubes and David Ludwig have proposed a "carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis" in which carbohydrates are said to be uniquely fattening because they raise insulin levels and cause fat to accumulate unduly.

Ultimately a very low-calorie, ketogenic Low-carbohydrate diet "was not associated with significant loss of fat mass" compared to a non-specialized Low-carbohydrate diet with the same calories; there was no useful "metabolic advantage".

Low-carbohydrate diet has been found to reduce endurance capacity for intense exercise efforts, and depleted muscle glycogen following such efforts is only slowly replenished if a low-carbohydrate diet is taken.

Rarely, a low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet can give rise to ketoacidosis, especially in patients with comorbid conditions.

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Low-carbohydrate diet's booklet was widely read, so much so that some people used the term "Banting" for the activity now called "dieting".

Physicians who advocated a low-carbohydrate diet consisting of large amounts of animal fat and protein to treat diabetes in the late 1800s include James Lomax Bardsley, Apollinaire Bouchardat and Frederick William Pavy.

In 1972, Robert Atkins published Dr Atkins' Diet Revolution, which advocated the low-carbohydrate diet he had successfully used in treating people in the 1960s.

Original ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet developed in the 1920s and used to treat drug-resistant childhood epilepsy.

The premise of the weight-loss ketogenic Low-carbohydrate diet is that if the body is deprived of glucose obtained from carbohydrate foods, it will produce energy from stored fat.