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Why celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels has a million reasons to slam the trendy keto diet

Celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels has slammed the keto diet. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
Celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels has slammed the keto diet. Photo: Getty Images/AFP

Star of NBC’s ‘The Biggest Loser’ says weight-loss regimen favoured by stars from Halle Berry to Mick Jagger lacks basic nutritional sense

Jillian Michaels stopped by the offices of Women’s Health to talk health tips and went off on a trendy diet that she said gets her “fired up”: the keto diet. The weight-loss regimen tied to everyone from Halle Berry to Mick Jagger lacks basic nutritional sense, said the trainer seen on NBC’s The Biggest Loser.

 

“I don’t understand. Like, why would anybody think this is a good idea?” Michaels, 44, told the magazine, calling the keto diet a “bad plan, for a million reasons”.

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According to Michaels, the high-fat, low-carb diet ignores the reality that “your macro molecules, are literally made up of protein, fat, carbohydrates, nucleic acids.”

And ditching any of the three macronutrients – protein, fat or, in this case, carbs – starves the cells, she said, threatening the body’s overall health.

“To make a very long story short: avoid the keto diet. Common sense,” she told Women’s Health.

 

Dr Eric Kossoff, director of the Child Neurology Residency Program at Johns Hopkins, told USA TODAY in 2017 how the diet’s carb starvation forces the body to break down fat, but suggested most adherents don’t fully understand the implications.

Philip Goglia, a nutritionist who claims Kim Kardashian and Kanye West as clients, doubted the keto diet in the same report, saying its success depends on how one’s specific body uses fats, proteins and carbs.