The Keto Diet

After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, Candy Lee changed her lifestyle and career, started keeping fit and found religion. She also set up a YouTube channel to inspire others.

Shirley Adrain was shocked to learn she had late-stage lung cancer, having never smoked. A regime involving targeted therapy, meditation, adopting a keto diet, and positive thinking is aiding her recovery.

This high fat, low-carb diet lowers blood sugar and insulin levels, shifting the body’s main energy source to fat instead of glucose — a process known as ketosis. It delivers health benefits, including weight loss, but can be difficult to maintain. Here’s what you need to know.

Training your body to burn fat not sugar brings big changes to your insides – know what you’re getting into first to avoid unwanted side effects

This teacher dropped 20kg, but used intermittent fasting, too.

If you are motivated, to beat disease, for example, you can sustain it.

Lots of fat, some protein, and few carbs make the keto diet tough to sustain.

Fermented soy product is keto friendly - high in protein and fat and low in carbs.

The ketogenic diet works by tricking the body into entering starvation mode, where it burns fat for energy. But after a week the body begins replenishing its fat stores faster than they can be used, Yale University study on mice suggests.

It may strain the liver and kidneys and trigger yo-yo dieting

To live longer, healthier lives, they choose keto to stay slim

As tasty as pumpkin or sunflower seeds, they are popular with people who follow the ketogenic diet, and can help lower cholesterol. The Philippines is the only country in Asia that grows the nuts to sell commercially.

Imbalances can trigger complications from constipation to mood swings - and worse.

Couple, who have lived on high-fat ketogenic diet for six years and co-wrote how-to keto guide BioDiet say consumption of sugar, not fat, should be vilified

All-you-can-eat animal products, such as meat, fish and eggs ... but will ‘Hubby’, our no-greens guinea pig, cheat on a neighbour’s chocolate chip waffles?

Many diets today tell their followers that fruit is too high in carbs, sugar and calories – some even call fruit toxic because of its sugar. But fruit is full of vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals, which all contribute to good health.

While veganism is a fast-growing trend, some find a plant-based diet too hard to follow. Here are five popular diets, including low-sodium and carb-free regimes.

India’s love affair with clarified butter dates back millennia. Lately it’s trending as a superfood with Keto diet followers. Ghee has a long shelf life, is high in vitamin D and is suitable for lactose intolerant people

Star of NBC’s ‘The Biggest Loser’ says weight-loss regimen favoured by stars from Halle Berry to Mick Jagger lacks basic nutritional sense

Switching to the keto diet takes careful planning – it’s not as easy as swapping your morning toast with a few bacon strips. Here’s what to eat and how to limit those carbs

Thursday’s traditional holiday feast in the US is full of carbohydrates such as potatoes and pie, but luckily for those on the diet there are alternatives

Sticking to the diet needs willpower and – perhaps more than any other weight-loss programme – a willingness to cook could be the recipe for success

Keto, Paleo and Atkins diets are popular because they are said to reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes, but studies shows they are deadlier than a high-carbohydrate diet; for longer life eat more legumes, grains, nuts, soy and high-fibre fruit and veg.

Celebrities raved about diet that allows only a low-carbohydrate intake each day – but deodorant and breath mints are essential

We could all take steps to improve our health, but how far would you go? Stefanie Hemshall has gone all the way, making a radical lifestyle change by adopting a ketogenic diet.