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Do Quick-Fix Diets Work? |
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A big trend these days is the "diet of the week" - you've probably heard of dozens of these in your lifetime. They'll rapidly become a fad for a short period of time - eat only this or that, or take a special shake, and you'll lose the pounds rapidly. They all promise quick results - but do these diets really work?
The answer in most cases is no. Usually you can get a short term loss of weight fairly easily with any diet that changes your eating habits dramatically - if you cut off the calories, most people are going to see significant short term weight loss. That's why they always focus on |
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losing a certain amount of pounds by a certain date - they know most people will. But the other side to the coin is that most people won't keep them off. It's much harder to keep the pounds from coming back than it is to get rid of a chunk of weight by altering your diet. You've already gotten the "shock" benefit, and eventually your system is going to return to normal. And in many cases, you'll have done damage to your health by abruptly changing your nutrition levels - it's just not safe to be excluding entire classes of food from your diet in most cases. The better, and more traditional course, is |
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BALTIMORE, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Forty-percent of children with uncontrollable epilepsy who stay on a high-fat ketogenic diet return to normal levels of cholesterol, U.S. researchers say.
Elevated cholesterol levels return to normal or near normal levels over time in four out of 10 children with uncontrollable epilepsy treated with the high-fat ketogenic diet, according to results of a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study reported in the Journal of Child Neurology. The study appears online ahead of print here.
Elevated cholesterol levels return to normal or near normal levels over time in four out of 10 children with uncontrollable epilepsy treated with the high-fat ketogenic diet, according to results reported in the Journal of Child Neurology.
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