KETO enthusiasts beware!
Medical journal JAMA Cardiology has published a case study of a man who presented to a Florida hospital with a three-week history of painless yellow nodules on his hands, elbows and the soles of his feet.
He told doctors that he had adopted a "carnivore diet" eight months prior, eating three to four kilos of cheese, sticks of butter, and hamburgers that had additional fat incorporated into them every day.
Despite this rather radical departure from evidence-based healthy eating guidelines, he claimed that since adopting the diet, his weight had dropped, his energy levels increased and his mental clarity improved.
Be that as it may, his total cholesterol, at around 30mmol/L, had most definitely not improved, and far exceeded the normal level of 5.5mmol/L.
He was duly diagnosed with xanthelasma, a condition in which excess blood lipids leak from blood vessels and form localised lipid deposits - the yellow bumps under his skin.
In other words, he was oozing cholesterol.
Well, that puts "keto breath" into perspective.
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