With high-profile celebrity fans including Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, Melissa McCarthy and Gwyneth Paltrow, it’s no wonder that ‘keto’ is now one of the most googled food-related topics in the world. So could this high-fat, low-carb approach to nutrition help you lose weight?
The keto diet involves drastically reducing carbohydrate intake to around 20g to 50g per day and replacing it with fat, says dietician Dr Carrie Ruxton from the Health & Food Supplements Information Service. ‘This puts the body into a metabolic state called ketosis, which