A diet that makes you slim Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake: Health writer   Some of my readers have asked me to suggest the best diet for slimming. There are many diets described, each has its merits and demerits, but I find the ketogenic diet is one of the most practical and rewarding diets if you desire to slim. It is more a further extension of the popular Atkin diet with more restriction of carbs and added more fats, and is easy to follow. We need carbohydrates, fats and proteins to provide energy for survival. In the normal traditional staple diet we consume carbs as the main calorie producing ingredient (60%), and about 30% of fats, which includes about 10% of saturated fat and 20% of unsaturated fat. Proteins are the bricks of your building structure and you need about 10%. One could bring down the carb consumption to about 20% and increase the fats to provide nearly 80 per cent of ...

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