Jimmy Clark - Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting for Beginners: A Complete Guide to the Keto Fasting Lifestyle Gain the Weight Loss Clarity You Need

A Complete Guide to the Keto Fasting Lifestyle.

Gain the Weight Loss Clarity You Need

Written by Jimmy Clark

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In a world full of crash and fad diets, it can be difficult to know how to lose weight in a healthy and manageable way that will actually keep the weight off. Many diets that claim success may help you drop the pounds, but only leave you weak, exhausted, hungry, and stressed. What is worse is that these crash diets often leave your metabolism a wreck, causing you to soon gain the weight back. They may help you lose weight in the short-term, but they have long-term negative consequences.

Reaching your goals does not have to be such a difficult and stressful process. In this book, you will learn all about how the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting can help you not only lose the weight but how to lose it in a healthy way that will also keep the pounds off in the long-run.

While crash diets come and go the ketogenic diet has been around, helping people not only lose weight but gain health, for nearly a century. Likewise, intermittent fasting has been around for weight loss, religion, health, and as a necessity for thousands of years. Not only is there an abundance of anecdotal evidence for the health benefits and weight loss effects of the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, but there are numerous studies that prove these beneficial effects as well. And, more studies are continuing to come out every day.

By the time you finish this book, you will know everything you need to successfully lose weight with the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, whether you need to lose five pounds or even one-hundred pounds.

The world has recently been taken by storm by the ketogenic diet and its claims of health and weight loss. The ketogenic diet, or often simply referred to as 'keto diet', is a low-carbohydrate, moderate-protein, and high-fat diet. It may seem contradictory to well-known health recommendations to cut out grains and increase fat, yet, there are numerous studies showing the health benefits of this plan. The ketogenic diet is not just another crash diet scheme; it is a long-term plan for health, wellness, and yes, weight loss.

While the ketogenic diet would not originate until the 1920s, the groundwork for it began back in 1911 when the first modern study on fasting for the treatment of epilepsy was conducted in France. In this study twenty different epileptic patients of various ages went on a low-calorie vegetarian diet, paired with periods of fasting. While most of the patients struggled under the strenuous restrictions of this diet, two of them did benefit enormously. These patients experienced a remarkable improvement in their mental capabilities, quite a contrast to their medication which had dulled their minds.

Around the same time, Bernarr Macfadden, an American advocate of physical culture, which is a method of combining diet and strength training, began popularizing fasting for health. Of Macfadden's supporters, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, Hugh Conklin, began to treat his hundreds of epileptic patients with fasting. Conklin would recommend his patients maintain an eighteen to twenty-five-day fast, to rid the body of supposed toxins. While he only had a fifty percent success rate in adults, Conklin was able to successfully treat ninety percent of the children under his care. Overall twenty percent of Conklin's patients were able to become seizure-free, and fifty percent had some improvement. Conklin's treatment was so successful that it soon became a mainstream treatment by neurologists.

Dr. McMurray wrote to the New York Medical Journal in 1916, claiming success in treating epileptic patients beginning in the year of 1912 with a fast followed with a sugar and starch-free diet. Soon thereafter, once seeing Conklin's success first-hand, a prominent endocrinologist, Dr. H. Rawle Geyelin of the New York Presbyterian Hospital decided to try to recreate the outcome in the treatment of his own thirty-six patients. Geyelin reported his success to the American Medical Association.
Studies continued into the 1920s. The parents of one of Conklin's successfully treated patients, Charles Howland, gave his brother, John Howland, a professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, $5,000 in order to continue the research of ketosis and epilepsy. This payment was able to fund research by neurologist Stanley Cobb and his assistant, William G. Lennox.

In the year of 1921 endocrinologist, Dr. Rollin Woodyatt found that water-soluble compounds, acetone, acetoacetate, and -hydroxybutyrate were produced by the liver, as a result of starvation, fasting, and in a diet both high in fat and low in carbohydrates. These compounds are known as ketones.

During the same year Dr. Russell Wilder, from the Mayo Clinic, gave this diet the name it is now known for. Dr. Wilder proposed that a ketogenic diet could be equally as effective in treating epilepsy, but with the ability to be maintained for much longer periods of time.

Another doctor at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Peterman, treated his patients following the diet and noted improvements in their behavior and cognitive function. Dr. Peterman believed and stressed the importance of teaching caregivers how to manage the diet, individualizing the plan for each patient, and close continuous follow-ups. Before long the success of the ketogenic diet become well-known, and it was recorded in nearly every comprehensive textbook on childhood epilepsy between the years of 1941 and 1980.

In 1938, Tracy J. Putnam and H. Houston Merritt made a historic discovery of an anticonvulsant drug, Dilantin, which became a pioneer in epileptic drug research and therapy. However, this new era in drug treatment led to a decline in the use and knowledge of the ketogenic diet.