Southern Italian Ketogenic Diet Essentials A Guide to Live the Southern Italian Ketogenic Lifestyle, Lose Weight and Improve Brain Health

By Susan Zeppieri

The Southern Italian Keto Diet is a way of life that is not only healthy and sustainable, but also allows you to live a lifestyle of vitality, energy and fun. The ketogenic diet is the current trend in weight loss and is a low-carb, high-fat diet that boosts energy, stabilizes blood sugar and reduces chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer. It is a lifestyle change which has numerous health benefits. If you are looking for a healthy diet which you can implement into your daily routine, this book is perfect for you.
This is a comprehensive guide to live the keto lifestyle, lose weight and improve brain health. This book takes you through all the essentials needed to live a healthy life on a keto diet, including food grouping, the ketogenic diet and nutritional support.
HERE'S WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK SPECIAL:
• The Southern Italian Ketogenic Diet's Origins
• The Fundamentals of Fuel Utilization
• What Exactly Is the Southern Italian Ketogenic Diet, and How Does It
Work?
• The Hidden Benefits of Southern Italian Ketogenic Diet
• What can I eat in Southern Italian Ketogenic Diet?
• Much, much more!
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Zeppieri
• Release date: May 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201387877

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Chapter 1: The Southern Italian Ketogenic Diet's Origins

As a starting point for this discussion, it is beneficial to look at the history of the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet and how it has evolved over the course of time. With the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet, the primary aims are the treatment of epilepsy and weight loss, with a number of sub-objectives along the way. This article will not go into great detail on the metabolic parallels that exist between fasting and the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet, but it is worth mentioning nevertheless. As a consequence of the similarities between the two metabolic states, which are often referred to as starvation Southern Italian ketosis and dietary Southern Italian ketosis, the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet has developed over time as a result of these similarities. Despite the fact that this diet lets you eat calories, it has the same metabolic effects as fasting.

1.1 Epilepsy

Pediatric epilepsy is the most well-known clinical condition for which the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet has been shown to be effective. It has been addressed in manuscripts going back to the Middle Ages that fasting may be used as a seizure treatment. In the early 1900s, full fasting was prescribed for the treatment of seizures in children. The only disadvantage of fasting is that it can only be used to treat seizures for as long as the fast is kept up and that it has no other benefits. As a result of the challenges connected with extended fasting, early nutrition specialists were intrigued by the prospect of developing a method of simulating starving Southern Italian ketosis while still allowing for food consumption. According to the researchers, the consumption of a diet high in fat, low in carbohydrates, and having just the quantity of protein required for growth allows for the maintenance of starvation Southern Italian ketosis for long periods of time. Dr. Wilder utilized this knowledge to develop the world's first Southern Italian Ketogenic diet for the treatment of epilepsy in 1921, which was later adopted worldwide. When used in conjunction with other therapies, Dr. Wilder's Southern Italian Ketogenic diet proved successful in treating juvenile epilepsy in many cases that had previously failed to respond to medicine or other treatments.

Dr. Wilder's Southern Italian Ketogenic diet is very similar to the therapy for juvenile epilepsy that was in use in 1998, when the diet was first introduced. Epilepsy drugs discovered in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s drove the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet into the background of medical history. The diet was all but extinct during this time period, and it was difficult to administer due to the widespread availability of easily prescribed medications at the time. Although a few modified Southern Italian Ketogenic diets, such as the MCT diet, were investigated and shown to be beneficial in terms of dietary diversity, they were quickly abandoned. According to some sources, Charlie, a 2-year-old kid who suffered uncontrolled seizures despite medicine and various therapies, including brain surgery, led to the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet being rediscovered as a treatment for epilepsy in 1994.

During his study, Charlie's father stumbled across a reference to the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet and made the choice to take his son to Johns Hopkins Medical Center for further evaluation. Charlie's seizures stayed completely under control as long as he followed the food regimen. When other treatments for epilepsy failed, Charles' father established the Charlie Foundation, which has since produced numerous educational videos, published the book The Epilepsy Diet Treatment: An Introduction to the Southern Italian Ketogenic Diet, and sponsored conferences to teach doctors and dietitians how to use the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet successfully. Despite a lack of knowledge of how the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet works, it continues to gain acceptance as a therapy option for epilepsy patients as an alternative to medicine.

1.2 Obesity

At least a century has passed since the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet was first used for weight loss, and it has made occasional appearances in mainstream diets over that time period. There has been a great deal of research on complete starvation, including Hill's 60-day fasting experiment, which was recorded by Cahill in his seminal study on the subject. Because of the rapid weight loss that would come as a consequence of a diet, morbid obesity was first considered an attractive condition to treat. As a result of the various advantages of Southern Italian ketosis, such as decreased appetite and a general sense of well-being, fasting was even more enticing for weight loss. Patients who are very fat have been given nothing but water, vitamins, and minerals for up to a year at a time. When a person is starved to death, muscle tissue is the major source of protein that is depleted. A complete fast may result in the loss of up to half of a person's bodyweight in muscle and water, which is an uncomfortably large proportion of their total body weight. As an alternative approach to preventing hunger, the Protein Sparing Modified Fast was initially developed in the early 1970s (PSMF). A decrease in appetite and a near-complete dependency on fat and ketones for energy as a result of Southern Italian ketosis-induced hunger were also maintained as a result of this treatment, despite the fact that muscle loss was limited. It is still used to treat severe obesity, but it must be closely managed by a doctor in order to prevent side effects.

The discovery that reducing carbohydrate consumption to 50 grams or less per day resulted in weight loss and lower body fat led to the development of a low-carbohydrate diet as a method of fighting obesity at the time. Many people were skeptical about whether weight loss was caused by a metabolic quirk or just by people eating less during the early stages of the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet. The Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution in the early 1970s was responsible for the greatest amount of public awareness of the Southern Italian Ketogenic plan as a fat-loss diet. It generated a great deal of interest in the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet, both positive and negative, and millions of copies were sold as a result.

The calorie-restricted Atkins diet, in contrast to the semi-starvation and low-calorie Southern Italian Ketogenic diets that had come before it, allowed for an unlimited amount of protein and fat to be consumed. Dieters would lose weight quickly, easily, and without hunger if they used it, and they would be able to eat as much protein and fat as they wanted while doing so. While he supplied sufficient information to create a compelling argument, he placed a heavy reliance on studies that had significant methodological flaws. A multitude of reasons, most likely related to the unsupported (and untested) comments made by Atkins, led to the American Medical Association openly attacking his plan, and the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet eventually went away. After a number of dieters died while following the Last Chance Diet, a 300-calorie-per-day liquid protein diet that shares certain features with the PSMF, Southern Italian Ketogenic diets have also come under assault.

Since then, the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet has displaced the Southern Italian Ketogenic diet as the go-to plan for weight loss, increased sports performance, and general health in the United States, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Doctor Atkins' Protein Power and the Eads' Atkins are two recent examples of low carbohydrate diets making a comeback; however, both diets are primarily aimed at the average American dieter, rather than