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Can i do ketosis diet if pregnant?

3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Dr. Michael Dugan answered

Specializes in Hematology

NO: Balanced nutrition is vitally important for mom and baby.

Answered 2/13/2013

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

AbsolutelyGoodChoice: When we burn fat, body fat or fat from foods, we produce a variety of ketone bodies. While physicians have often associated this state with unusual unhealthy conditions (usual MD focus), staying in a chronic state of mild ketosis is quite healthy; strongly, associated with healthy lipoprotein particle concentrations, ↓rates of DM, obesity, cardiovascular Ds, cancer; mortality http://goo.gl/ubDC9h!

Answered 11/9/2014

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