Western vs. Ketogenic Diet - Greater 'Gains' Materialize Only After Glycogen-Loading in 12-Wk Study in Trained Subjects
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you if the "Western" diet was also full of junk food. I just know that its 20/55/20 ratio of PRO/CHO/FAT is everything but ideal for one's body composition. While it has not officially been published, yet, I am pretty sure that Jacob M. Wilson's latest paper is going to be one of the most-downloaded articles in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research it's about to be published in. You're asking yourself why I am so sure about that? Well, it's already the most-discussed ahead-of-print article in months (see any Facebook Fitness / Exercise Research group or bulletin board), because it claims to confirm that ketogenic diets "can be used in combination with resistance training to cause favorable changes in body composition, performance and hormonal profiles in resistance-trained males" (Wilson 2017) - a claim that gets both ketophiles and keto-haters absolutely fired up. Would be ...