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Ketogenic Diet for Human Health

  • 1IGNOU Study Center, NIFTEM Kundli, Sonepat, India
  • 2Department of Food Science & Technology, NIFTEM Kundli, Sonepat, India
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Corresponding Author

Murlidhar Meghwal, murli.murthi@gmail.com

Received Date: December 31, 2020

Accepted Date: January 20, 2021

Abstract

Ketogenic diet is a high fat, moderate protein, low carbohydrate diet in which energy source is ketones instead of glucose, which was initially designed to treat epilepsy but it proved in delivering many other health benefits including weight loss, fat loss, improves glucose and insulin levels, sometimes it results in skin glow and many others health benefits. Intake of ketogenic diet will place your body into a state of “ketosis”. A process when human body becomes a fat burner rather than sugar burner. The present study includes brief description about ketogenic diet and its types, history, biochemistry, its benefits and their side-effects.

Keywords

Diet, Ketogenic, Health, Energy, Fat, Food

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