Hello and welcome to the Nutrition Diva Podcast. I'm your host, Monica Reinagle,

and today I'm taking a look at a new study suggesting that you can burn more calories simply by reducing

the amount of carbohydrate in your diet.

Now according to the latest Google search data, interest in the ketogenic diet appears to have waned significantly lately,

but the popular and scientific fascination with low-carb diets persists.

The ketogenic diet that we've been hearing so much about lately is of

course just the latest reincarnation of other diets that severely restrict

carbohydrates including the Atkins South Beach and Duquesne diets.

And the goal of these very low-carb diets

or the very low-carb phases of these diets

is to induce ketosis where the body's cells are forced to burn fat for energy

instead of sugar. Now although sugar or carbohydrate is the body's preferred

source of cellular energy.

We do have very flexible metabolisms.

And so if sugar isn't available and fat is,

the body can switch over to burn fat instead.

Sort of like a car that can run on both gas and electric power.

If the electric battery runs out of juice,

the car can then burn gasoline until you have a chance to recharge your batteries.

Now just because the body is using fat as its fuel source, that doesn't necessarily mean it's burning body fat.

First, it's going to be burning the

fat that you eat and ketogenic diets tend to be very high in fat. You'll only

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