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Can a one year old safely follow a ketogenic diet?
In general, no.
A ketogenic diet is one where carbohydrates are eliminated and protein is restricted, to force the body to obtain its energy from the metabolism of fatty acids and ketone bodies, ...
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Why is natural sugar healthier than refined sugar?
To directly answer your question: it is not. "Natural" sugar is no healthier than "refined" sugar, and sugar in fruits is no healthier than sugar in juice. Sugar molecules are ...
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What is "FMD" or Fasting-mimicking diet?
This is a diet produced by a group of researchers at USC led by a Dr. Longo that was used to try to avoid the effects of prolonged fasting (PF), by instead using a 5 day period once a month where ...
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Is having 3 whole eggs at breakfast harmful?
The American Heart Association no longer condemns eggs in its guidelines. But it does recommend that people limit themselves to 300 milligrams of cholesterol daily (a single egg has about 200 ...
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Can a one year old safely follow a ketogenic diet?
Your have three questions in one now:
Is a ketogenic diet appropriate for a one year old?
Is a carbohydrate reduced diet appropriate for a one year old?
Is milk really necessary for a one year old, ...
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How to gain weight naturally or by food around the house
Unless you are very short, your weight indicates that you are severely underweight, see here for details. If you are indeed underweight, then you should follow the advice given there:
If you are ...
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Is Glue on Chocolate and other Wrappers Safe/ Edible?
It can be trusted as safe as much as the regulations that it comes under can be trusted to make it safe and producers following said regulations.
Materials and articles that come into contact ...
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Why is White flour not healthy?
No individual food is "not healthy" it is your diet that overall is healthy or not. Using white flour instead of whole flour gives away a chance to eat some fibre. A page from the UK's NHS explains ...
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What are the causes of Chronic Diarrhea?
Chronic mouth ulcers are relatively common, especially in young people. It's called apthous stomatitis, affects at least 20% of the population, and its natural course is one of eventual remission. By ...
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Can a one year old safely follow a ketogenic diet?
I highly advise against such a restrictive and one-sided diet for a child! For children a balanced diet is important both for their physical and mental development. This means that malnutrition can ...
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Why do some foods with high calories not fill you up?
Satiety is not, and never was, a measure of the calories you have eaten. You feel sated when a certain type of neurons fire in your brain. These neurons are triggered by 1) impulses incoming from the ...
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Is all protein the same?
The requirements for amino acids are given here. The relative ratio between the amino acids is also important here, it's no good getting a lot of one type if you miss out on another one, you need to ...
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Am I overweight? Bad self image...?
No, you are not overweight at all, and whoever told you it was a good idea to even consider a "diet" was very mistaken. Don't listen to them.
At 120 pounds and 5'5", your Body Mass Index is 20.0, ...
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Ketosis over extended period
Long-term ketogenic diet can have various side effects.
Safety and tolerability of the ketogenic diet used for the treatment of refractory childhood epilepsy: a systematic review of published ...
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How to gain weight naturally or by food around the house
To increase weight and be healthy eat plenty of food rich in proteins (black beans, chickpeas, broccoli, potatoes, mushrooms), carbohydrates (Whole grain bread, pasta, cereals) and fat (avocado, olive ...
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Possible iron/protein defeciency in vegetarians
Is it possible for vegetarians who eat plenty of dairy food to have iron or protein deficiency?
Everyone who consumes too little iron can develop iron-deficiency anemia, but this is not necessary ...
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Is using vegetable oil bad for a ketogenic diet?
The general recommendation against vegetable oil has nothing to do with the oil source. The usual complain is that vegetable oils are perceived as "highly processed" and thus "not natural". Which of ...
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Low Carb Diet Causing Peripheral Neuropathy Symptoms
The main causes of nutrition-related peripheral neuropathy are deficiencies of vitamins B1 (thiamin), B3 (niacin), B6 (pyridoxine), B9 (folate) and B12 (cobalamin) (Emedicine). In carnivores, vitamin ...
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What are trustworthy food and nutrition information websites, without ties to food companies?
Well, if you really want a website that offers easy to understand information that is based on scientific studies, then there is one site that I would recommend to you:
Nutritionfacts
It's basically ...
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Is it bad if I don't eat in the morning, as long as I eat enough?
https://authoritynutrition.com/is-skipping-breakfast-bad/
Breakfast Eaters Tend to Have Healthier Habits?
It’s true, many studies show that breakfast eaters tend to be
healthier.
For example, they ...
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Ketosis over extended period
You might be interested in this study: Long-term effects of a ketogenic diet in obese patients.
Specifically, for 83 obese study participants on a ketogenic (<30g carb/day) diet for 24 weeks:
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Does "Hot soup on a hot day keep you cool"?
Surprisingly, yes. Recent research explains:
When we’re hot, we naturally cool our bodies primarily by sweating, or more specifically by having the sweat evaporate from our skin (that’s important!). ...
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Dietary Interactions that cause Constipation
The major dietary causes are not enough water and not enough fibre. (See the Risk Factors section of this Mayo Clinic article, which focuses on medical causes of constipation.) There's nothing ...
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Is fibre an essential nutrient?
Essential nutrient means any substance normally consumed as a constituent of food which is needed for growth and development and/or the maintenance of life and which cannot be synthesized in adequate ...
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Is there evidence that humans should fast intermittently daily for 16 hours because it is healthy in general?
Quality of Evidence
First off, I'd be careful with the sources you are citing-- one of them is an opinion letter in a journal, and two are studies in rats.
When looking at studies, the best evidence ...
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Vitamin supplements with a balanced diet
Vitamins and minerals from foods an supplements taken simultaneously can be absorbed normally, because their absorption is usually not regulated by the amounts you take. However, the absorption of ...
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Why is some alcohol consumption healthier than no alcohol consumption?
While there is some evidence for what we call a J-shaped curve in the relationship between alcohol consumption and certain health outcomes, at best this evidence only suggests people who already drink ...
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How to explain the theory of the influence of purine and alcohol on the incidence of risk for gout in light of contradictory evidence?
How does one explain 'avoid purines in food' if purine-rich plant food isn't counting?
Sustained increase in blood uric acid levels (hyperuricemia) is a risk factor for acute gouty arthritis (Current ...
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Is it risky to eat at most 12 ounces of canned sardines weekly for about two months?
Like you mentioned, 12 ounces of sardines a week fits under the FDA's guidelines, so it should not be harmful to the adult that you described. Sardines contain a lot less mercury than many other fish ...
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restoring a live tooth
No, there is no evidence in reputable sources that any diet can restore a partially removed tooth to a full tooth again.
Any source you do encounter which proposes such a possibility is highly likely ...
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