KETOGENIC DIET Definition & Meaning

ketogenic diet

[ kee-toh-jen-ik dahy-it ]

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noun

a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet that causes the breakdown of fats into ketone bodies, which consequently replace carbohydrates as the body’s main source of energy: used as a regimen for weight loss, the ketogenic diet is also used to control certain medical disorders or episodes, especially epileptic seizures in children.

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Origin of ketogenic diet¹

First recorded in 1915–20

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He is a proponent of using the ketogenic diet, a diet low in carbohydrates and high in fat, to treat cancer.

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Mice fed a particular type of ketogenic diet accumulated so-called senescent cells in their organs, researchers report today in Science Advances.

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Radiation oncologist David Gius wasn’t looking for detrimental outcomes of the ketogenic diet.

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Gius and his team stumbled on the senescence connection when they put mice on a supercharged ketogenic diet in which about 90% of the calories came from fat—mainly in the form of the shortening Crisco.

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Levels of the p53 protein climbed in animals on the ketogenic diet, the team found.

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