It has been about four months since Kim Kardashian gave birth to baby North West and the baby weight has seemingly melted off the reality TV star. On Sunday, she finally revealed her post-baby weight loss secret on Twitter. “I’ve actually been doing the Atkins diet & luv it,” she told her 18 million Twitter followers. Kim’s doctor approved the famous low-carb diet and advised her to start the diet in Phase 2 instead of Phase 1 because she was nursing. “It’s a very balanced way for her to lose the baby weight while continuing to properly care for her daughter,” Atkins Nutritionals spokesperson Jennifer Livingston told New York Daily News. “Being a new nursing mother, she needed adequate calories to be healthy for her child and keep up her milk production. What’s great about Atkins is that it’s not about counting calories or depriving yourself.” Sounds like she’s making a great diet choice. Kim K. has never looked better!
High-Fat Diets Could Reduce the Brain’s Ability to Regulate Food Intake
Thursday, January 26, 2023
When high-fat and high-calorie foods are consumed regularly, our brain’s ability to regulate hunger cues, and calorie intake gets reduced. A new study has shown evidence of how continuously eating a fatty diet seems to disrupt the neurological pathway between the brain and the gut.
The cells in charge of signaling the brain when we’ve had enough food are called astrocytes. According to new research published in The Journal of Physiology, calorie intake is regulated in the short term by astrocytes (large star-shaped cells in the brain that regulate many different functions of neurons in the brain). Astrocytes also control the signaling pathway between the brain and the gut, a path that can get interrupted by high calorie diets.
