Ketos and Low-Carb Diet: Are they bad for your health?
Ketos is quite a popular coinage from the word ketosis, ketos diet is a low carb and high-fat diet. Ketosis is a type of metabolic process that metabolizes or burns stored fats present because of low glucose availability in the body. This metabolic reaction leads to the production of ketones acid in the body. Many people, in a bid to lose weight or fat, fall to keto dieting, this is where they drastically reduce their carbohydrate food intake and this type of dieting forcefully makes the body use the stored fat in the body for energy to run through day-to-day activities because carbohydrate is absent. Ketosis also naturally occurs in people living with diabetes. This happens because the body has insufficient insulin, this can also be referred to as diabetic ketoacidosis or DKA. However, when people decide to engage in ketosis as a form of diet, they reduce their carbs or carbohydrate intake and increase their fatty food intake. In this article, I will talk about the different types o...