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Brianna Beaty

ENG 112- Issue Report

Mar. 8th , 2020

Benefits and Drawbacks of the Keto Diet

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Everyone is talking about the Keto Diet. This diet is a diet where a person who tries to eat for fatty meats and things in that category.
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Even though some think this diet will be easier and funnier than just eating healthy foods that might not taste good, it does have benefits and

drawbacks to it. The keto diet is a low protein diet that can cause people to have chronic kidney disease. Even though others or researchers say

that a dietary interventions and low protein diets may play a role at different levels, such as treating obesity, correcting

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hypophosphatasemia, avoiding processed foods, and reducing the workload on the remnant nephrons. A low protein diet can however still be
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underutilized. There are a lot of drawbacks and dangers of the keto diet. Researchers say it cause the “keto flu”. The keto flu is symptoms a

person will have after two or seven days of starting the diet. The symptoms start with headache, foggy pain, fatigue, irritability, nausea,

difficulty sleeping, and constipation.

Reporters say that someone had done the keto diet and they ran test that highly effective at attenuating seizures. When they tested the

person that had been on the keto diet, they tested the person's body weight, ketone, and glucose levels. After the test results they said that the keto

diet can cause seizures in males and not females depending on the persons age. Also, “recent research published by The Lancet found that
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restricting carbs and replacing them with animal-based protein and fat could lead to a shorter lifespan. Janella Chin, DO”
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The keto diet can also attenuate proliferation and stemness of the stem-like cells by altering metabolism. Researchers say that the keto

diet consist of high fat foods and appropriate proteins with only minimal carbohydrate intake. This leads to physiological ketosis by lowering

blood glucose levels and increasing the levels of blood and ketone bodies. Studies say the keto diet exhibits promising anti-tumor effects against

GBM due to its induction of physiological ketosis. Another bad or drawback to the keto diet is that “the downside of the ketogenic diet is that
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there is no well-established evidence to support its sustainability on a long-term basis. Janella Chin DO”

There are a lot of drawbacks of the keto diet, some are nutrient deficiencies, adherence, and gut health. When it comes to nutrient

deficiencies if the diet is not followed correctly or without proper guidance it can cause nutrient deficiencies. Adherence is when a person eating

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very high-fat diet just get keep eating the way the keto diet is supposed to work because they are not satisfied. Lastly, Gut health, when using the

keto diet, it may become difficult to some to use the restroom because sometimes it is difficult to remove whole grain and fruit.

Now it is time to talk about the benefits of the keto diet. The keto diet has benefits like how it can treat epilepsy. The keto diet has

been used to epilepsy since the 1920s. “Janella Chin, DO” The keto diet is also used widely pediatric hospitals. People all over the world use the

keto diet because it may treat obesity and diabetes. Weight loss is the biggest usage for the keto diet. Studies say that it is more effective and

some just favor low fat eating.

The next benefit of the keto diet is that people can binge eat. The keto diet can help people with binge eating and food addictions.

Studies demonstrate the ketonic induced appetite suppression and enhanced satiety provide a theoretical basis for individuals using the keto

diet. Studies show that people that like to binge eat and start the keto diet and they can binge eat all they want and still loss weight at the same
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time.

There are many benefits to the keto diet and another benefit is that studies have proven that the diet effect people’s mood and energy.
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They did studies on people on how they acted before the keto diet and then two weeks after starting the keto diet. The people gave feedback after
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two weeks and it gave people more energy and increased the physical activity when they ate using the keto diet. Studies prove that the keto diet

can be beneficial to people when it comes to energy and physical activity.

There are many benefits to the keto diet, but the mean benefits are, Epilepsy, weight loss, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. The keto diet

can help with all these things. It helps with epilepsy because the keto diet was first used to clinically treat seizures. It main use is to lose weight.

When using this diet there are great metabolic changes initially. In a article named Antonio Paoli it states that the health parameters associated

with carrying excess weight improve, insulin resistance, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol. This diet helps with type 2 diabetes by

eating carbs which can have a direct impact on glucose concentrations and lowering it over time. This diet can help someone get their diabetes

under control. The other thing that the keto diet helps with is cancer. The keto diet has a Warburg effect which has established that tumor cells

can break down glucose faster compared to normal cells. The keto starves the tumor cells of glucose, and that helps stop the growth and help

prevent cancer.

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Some more facts about the keto diet is that this diet is a low-carb diet that puts your body into a metabolic process called

ketosis. While using this diet your body gets energy from burning fats instead of burning carbohydrates. “During ketosis, stored fats and proteins

are burned off in order to create ketone bodies, or ketones, which generate energy and when the body burns off fat and protein you lose
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weight, Amy Ramos”. Also, while keeping your insulin levels down it also means that you will have less ups and downs in your blood-glucose

levels to cope with. When this happens, you will be surprised by how much more energy you will have throughout the day. When you cut out
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high-carb and high sodium foods, the keto diet works y replying on healthy fats and proteins.

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Comment Summary
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1. extra word?
2. funnier? not the right word...
3. this sentence sounds like it should be cited... lots of technical info.
4. causes

watch subject/verb agreement

5. make sure you follow a quote with an explanation/analysis to explain to your reader how it connects to the
overall idea
6. This is another sentence that sounds "borrowed" from another source. Lots of technical terms generally will
require source info.
7. Explain!
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8. Source info? You should provide evidence in EACH paragraph
9. Who did?
10. You need to specify which studies you are discussing.
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11. "your" is 2nd person... make sure you write in 3rd person perspective.

"puts a person's body"

12. Explain quotes
13. This doesn't feel like a conclusion. You should not use evidence/direct quotes in a conclusion. You should
summarize your main points and leave your reader with a so-what takeaway.