Keto diet cut liver fat by 67% in a clinical trial
A ketogenic diet outperformed Mediterranean and low-fat diets in several measures of metabolic health during a clinical trial involving people with obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver disease. All three groups lost about 10% of their body weight, but keto reduced liver fat by 67%, compared with 45% for the other diets. About half of the keto group also no longer qualified as having prediabetes…
A new clinical trial has found that a very low-carbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic diet may offer greater metabolic benefits for individuals with obesity and prediabetes compared to either a Mediterranean or low-fat diet. After four to five months on the diet, around half of the participants no longer met the criteria for prediabetes.
Study author Samuel Klein explains that while weight loss is known to improve metabolic health in obese individuals, this study suggests that reducing carbohydrate intake can provide additional therapeutic effects on metabolism beyond weight loss alone.
The ketogenic diet, which restricts carbohydrates to just 4% of calories, resulted in an average 67% reduction in liver fat content among participants, compared to 45% in the Mediterranean diet group and 35% in the plant-forward diet group. Additionally, the ketogenic diet led to the greatest improvement in insulin sensitivity and the most significant decrease in blood insulin levels, which can help lower liver fat.
Despite consuming more fat, participants on the ketogenic diet did not experience an increase in blood fat or cholesterol levels. The researchers believe that the specific composition of the diet can offer added benefits beyond weight loss.
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