The Benefit of Ketogenic Diet on Health Outcomes Such as Weight Loss, Serum Cholesterol, Type 2 Diabetes, and Hypertension
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 4302
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutrition; epidemiology; chronic diseases; cancer; cardiovascular diseases; metabolic syndrome
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases have replaced infectious conditions and become the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Type 2 diabetes affects over 500 million people globally and the burden is steadily increasing over time. As global wealth increases, more and more people are starting to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and becoming exposed to more refined non-nutritious sugar-dense industrial food products, which make the situation even worse. Obesity and a related condition (i.e., metabolic syndrome) have reached an epidemic proportion globally, and interventions to reverse the trend face an uphill challenge as populations struggle with the health consequences.
There is a growing body of literature finding a beneficial effect of ketogenic (high fat, low carbohydrate, and moderate protein) diet on the weight loss, risk of type 2 diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases and their prognosis. However, the literature is still sparse, and more studies would help to determine the beneficial or adverse effects of ketogenic diets on the risk and prognosis of chronic diseases and other metabolic profiles including blood glucose and cholesterol.
In this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental and Public Health, we invite you to contribute research works evaluating the long-term beneficial and/or adverse effects of ketogenic diets and similar interventions for weight loss, risk, and progression of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cholesterol, and cancer using cohort or randomized controlled clinical trial study designs.
Dr. Daniel T. Dibaba
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ketogenic diet
- low-carbohydrate diet
- type 2 diabetes
- cardiovascular health
- cancer
- metabolic syndrome
- cholesterol
