Ketogenic diets: additional benefits to the weight loss and unfounded secondary effects
Pérez-Guisado, J.
Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion 58(4): 323-329
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-0622 PMID: 19368291 Document Number: 624653
It is also necessary to emphasize that as well as the weight loss, ketogenic diets are healthier because they promote a non-atherogenic lipid profile, lower blood pressure and diminish resistance to insulin with an improvement in blood levels of glucose and insulin. Such diets also have antineoplastic benefits, do not alter renal or liver functions, do not produce metabolic acidosis by Ketosis, have many neurological benefits in central nervous system, do not produce osteoporosis and could increase the perfomance in aerobic sports.