Many friends who lose weight may have heard of ketogenic diet. Its short-term and rapid weight loss effect makes everyone ecstatic, so more and more people join the ranks of ketogenic diet in weight loss.
This friend who consulted me lost 56 kg in half a year by this method.
The Copenhagen diet she mentioned is a variant of the ketogenic diet.
Are you very excited? I wish I could try it immediately. Don’t!
First, let’s see how the ketogenic diet is operated and whether you can stand it.
Is what a ketogenic diet?
Ketogenic diet advocates high-fat diet.
Its fat energy supply ratio accounts for about 70%, so high-fat foods such as cheese, butter, egg yolk, bacon, nuts, avocado, braised meat, fat cattle, chicken wings with skin, salmon, etc. can be eaten freely.
Ketogenic diet also advocates high protein diet.
The protein energy supply ratio accounts for about 25% (the protein energy supply ratio recommended for balanced diet is 10% ~ 15%), so pig, mutton, chicken, duck, goose, fish, shrimp and eggs can also be eaten happily.
But!
You have to say byebye to food rich in carbohydrate.
Rice, steamed bread, flower rolls, dumplings, Lamian Noodles, rice noodles, baked wheat cake, pancakes, porridge, porridge, oatmeal, bread…
These staple foods we often eat are almost impossible to eat.
Pastries, chocolates, sweet drinks, Shaqima, sweet drinks…
What about these desserts and drinks that you love at ordinary times, like what? Not to mention eating.
Grapes, blueberries, pitaya, apples, peaches, grapefruit…
These colorful, sweet and sour fruits, ah! I can hardly eat it.
Yam, Potatoes, Lotus Root, Horseshoe, Okra, Lily, Carrot, Onion
These vegetables cannot be eaten either.
There are also stir-fried dishes that cannot be thickened with starch or added with sugar, so don’t even think about sweet and sour spareribs, fish-flavored shredded pork, kung pao chicken and other sweet dishes.
How is it? Do you like it? Maybe you like to eat fat meat even if you are not happy with meat, but can you bear to eat it like this every day?
I also want to ask my friends who love steamed bread in the great north, rice in the great south, noodles in the northwest, flour in the southwest and rice in the northeast, can you stand it?
Looking at Baoma in the screenshot, she insisted on it for half a year, but her body ate bread and cakes in retaliation and reduced various health problems. Is it horrible?
Well, I won’t nag about how effective the ketogenic diet is to lose weight, whether it is good to stick to it or not, and whether it is healthy or not. I’d better listen to what experts say.
Ranked 2nd from bottom out of 40 dietary patterns
< < U.S. News and World Report > > Since 2011, experts from various fields such as food, nutrition, obesity, food psychology, diabetes, heart disease and so on have been organized to score common dietary patterns every year. This year, they have comprehensively evaluated 40 dietary patterns in the following latitudes:
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Effectiveness of short-term weight loss
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Effectiveness of long-term weight loss
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Effectiveness of diabetes prevention or maintenance
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Effectiveness of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
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Ease of compliance
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Nutritional integrity
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Health risks
Results the total score of ketogenic diet was 1.9 points (total score was 5 points), ranking 2nd from bottom among 40 diet patterns.
In addition to the comprehensive ranking, experts also ranked their weight loss effects separately, with a score of 2.8 points (a total score of 5 points), ranking 24th.
Why is the ranking so low? Isn’t losing weight quite fast?
Whether the weight loss effect is good or not depends not only on the effectiveness of short-term weight loss, but also on the effectiveness of long-term weight loss. Although the short-term weight loss effectiveness reaches 3.5 points, the long-term weight loss effectiveness is only 2 points, so the average score is lower.
Think about you who want to lose weight, do you also hope that you can maintain it well after losing it?
In addition, its health score is only 1.9. In the first week of trying ketogenic diet, you may suffer from muscle pain, headache, fatigue, mental blur and other symptoms. Long-term adherence to ketogenic diet will increase the risk of malnutrition, constipation, kidney stones, osteoporosis and other diseases.
Therefore, no matter from the perspective of weight loss effect or health, it is not recommended that you lose weight in such extreme ways.