Over the past couple of years, it has been hard to sift through nutrition-related news without hearing about the ketogenic diet. The name comes from ketosis, which is the state the body enters when it burns fat instead of carbohydrates. Involving a low-carb and high-fat eating pattern, it gained much popularity after being endorsed by many celebrities for accelerating their weight loss. Nevertheless, the keto diet was placed rather low on the 2019 rankings of best overall diets by U.S. News — and nutrition experts have offered some good reasons for this. In a new rodent study from Augusta University in Georgia, rats saw an increase in their blood pressure levels after a month of being placed on their diet. While rats placed on a regular diet gained 7.2 percent of their calories from fat, the figure was 36 percent for rats on the keto diet. Dr. Jennifer Sullivan, the pharmacologist and physiologist who led the research,...
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