Ketogenic diet, a dietician defends it

dietachetogenic The battle of the ketogenic diet versus the Mediterranean diet continues, especially in the United States, where even doctors are hiding saturated fat fanatics, who recommend that practically all grains be excluded from the diet to combat extra pounds and improve health. Among these, he discusses the case of Dr. Trudi Deakin , a dietician specializing in diabetology, who advises her patients on the ketogenic diet to lose weight and fight diabetes: Dr. Deakin recently revealed to the newspapers that she has a diet of about 2600 calories , not having gained a pound and enjoying excellent health by eating fat, and in particular saturated fat for 82 percent of his diet. You got it right, eight two.Eighty-two percent of his diet is made up of fat.
Dr. Deakin also gave an example of her diet: three-egg cheese souffle breakfast, microwave butter and cheese, then smoked salmon or herring and avocado. For lunch, a snack based on blueberries with double cream or a walnut muffin with almond flour and for dinner meat or fish cooked in butter with vegetables. She says that with this diet her health has improved, she is in perfect shape and her skin is much healthier and brighter, her metabolism is excellent

On the ketogenic diet there are only two arguments used so far to talk about it well:
– it is true that fats have often been discriminated against, and that many researches highlighting the correlation between saturated fat and cholesterol are old, from the 1950s to the 1970s.
– it is true that there is something called insulin, which increases after each meal and is also responsible for the extra pounds, and that lipids do not increase insulin levels.
The supporters of the ketogenic diet will blame these last two arguments, which however, although partially true, are not infallible.
On the one hand, a low-fat diet has helped and helps people with weight and high cholesterol problems.or. This is undoubted, and has decreed the success of the Ornish diet in America and the success of the Mediterranean diet all over the world, which as we know, even if it provides a good percentage of fat, certainly has a high percentage of carbohydrates. Furthermore, demonizing insulin is a game of slaughter of logic: insulin also serves to make us feel satiety, and fats, while satisfying the palate, do not satiate as much as a balanced meal. At most nausean. In addition, red meats and cheeses also increase insulin, certainly more than whole grains.
Furthermore, the ketogenic diet is hardly sustainable in the long term: it means measuring fruit to a hectogram of berries, eating only green leafy vegetables and some vegetables, eliminating entire categories of food, such as cereals and pseudocereals, legumes, honey and all types of sweets, potatoes, corn, all types fruit and all products with hidden sugars, starches and so on.
In short, assuming that the ketogenic diet to work forever must be done forever, while you can safely do it for a week or two without finding yourself with serious nutritional deficiencies, are we sure that apart from these deficiencies it is worth eating like this forever?