UCLA paper examines how one disease may prevent another
...diet rich in fat and low in carbohydrates mimicked starvation by causing ketonemia and also controlled seizures....sistant to medication. During the 1994 winter of starvation when bread supplies to the children's hospital were interrupted at The Hague, young patients with ce...Study identifies new regulator of fat metabolism
...evels, as would occur during periods of fasting or starvation or while consuming a low-carb diet, such as the popular Atkins diet model. For the past several years, Maratos-Fliers laboratory has been studying the physiologic states of animals consuming various types of diets -- including standard animal chow ...Low-carb diets' effects linked to rise in newly identified 'starvation hormone'
...t FGF21 is a principal component of the fasting or starvation response." The two studies together lead to an "obvious possibility that FGF21 accounts for the proposed positive effect of the Atkins dietincluding weight loss and an increase in good cholesterol," Kliewer continued. The degree to which the phys...