Keto: Heart Attack Waiting to Happen or Weight Loss Heaven? | Live Q&A with Lee Crosby, RD
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Is the keto diet the best diet for weight loss or your ticket to an early grave? Research from hundreds of studies is reviewed to find out!
Dietitian Lee Crosby joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll for a live keto diet Q&A on The Exam Room LIVE. Lee is the lead author of the most comprehensive review of keto diets known to date. The group analyzed data from more than 120 studies to determine how the popular diet can impact your health.
Lee also answers listeners questions from the Dietitian's Mailbag:
- Can a keto diet cause a heart attack?
- Does a keto diet work for long-term weight loss?
- Is a vegan keto diet healthy?
- How much fat is too much fat?
- What is the difference between a low-carb diet and keto?
- Is it safe to deprive the body of glucose?
- And many more!
Plus, Chuck reports on a study showing why eating apples, berries and pears might improve a health condition impacting nearly half of all adults in the U.S.
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Lee Crosby
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Chuck Carroll
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| 0:00.0 | Are you more likely to have a heart attack |
| 0:02.2 | on the keto diet because of all the fat that you're eating? |
| 0:05.3 | It is something of a role of the dice, |
| 0:07.1 | but the answer is quite possibly. |
| 0:09.6 | And they looked at 262 folks, |
| 0:12.2 | and what they did was they put them on an intensive keto diet. |
| 0:15.3 | Their total cholesterol, despite that weight loss, |
| 0:17.4 | went up by 8.1 milligrams per desgliter, |
| 0:20.5 | and their bad or LDL cholesterol went up by 10%. |
| 0:23.4 | Again, that's not what we would expect to see |
| 0:25.7 | in a diet where you're losing an average of 14 kilograms |
| 0:28.3 | or 30 pounds, right? |
| 0:29.3 | That's a significant weight loss. |
| 0:30.9 | So it looks like people's heart disease risk |
| 0:33.1 | is actually going not in a direction you want it to go. |
| 0:35.8 | What is the most important thing to do in a diet? |
| 0:40.9 | Welcome to the Xamarin Podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | Brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:45.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.5 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:52.9 | This is episode 69 of season four, number 264 overall. |
| 0:58.8 | And today, we are putting the spotlight back on keto. |
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