Devon Beurie, RD/LD and outpatient dietitian for the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center, sets up model food during a discussion of healthy eating.
keto can help teach people healthy habits for a more general diet, for example, Wunder said. "On keto, you pretty much cut out all sugar. That’s something I would agree with," Wunder said. "If people keep that lifestyle habit of keeping sugar consumption conservative, that’s a good thing."
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Often, fad diets are so restrictive they become impossible to keep up with, Wunder said. "They tend to not work because restriction in general doesn’t work. It creates this good vs. bad idea that people associate with guilt and deprivation," Wunder said. "Any kind of a long-term lifestyle change tends to work better."