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The Ketogenic Diet
Hello, this is Dr. Ellen. In this month’s newsletter, I want to briefly talk about a diet that has been very popular for more than two decades, the keto (i.e., ketogenic) diet. Many were looking for an alternative way of losing weight that did not emphasize caloric restriction… a diet that would not only allow but encourage an increased intake of dietary fat, particularly of animal products. The first such diet to become popularized was the Atkins diet in the 1970’s. It required that initially the amount of dietary…