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The original keto diet was used to control epilepsy in the 1920s. In 1972, Dr. Robert Atkins developed the four-phase diet process that begins with ketosis for weight loss and then sustains a healthy weight with a moderate level of carbohydrates.

 

PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine,
2003: Metabolic syndrome and low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets in the medical school biochemistry curriculum

 

One of Robert Atkins contributions was to define a diet strategy in terms of an underlying metabolic principle (“the science behind Atkins”). The essential feature is that, by reducing insulin fluxes, lipids are funnelled away from storage and oxidized. Ketosis can be used as an indicator of lipolysis. A metabolic advantage is also proposed: controlled carbohydrates leads to greater weight loss per calorie than other diets…