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Vetkoek (/ ˈ f ɛ t k ʊ k /, Afrikaans:) is a traditional South African fried dough bread. It is similar to the Caribbean Johnny cake, the Dutch oliebol, and the Mexican sopaipillas. [1] It is also known by the Xhosa and Zulu name igwinya (plural amagwinya). [2] [3]
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy that in conventional medicine is used mainly to treat hard-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates .
The original ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet developed in the 1920s and used to treat drug-resistant childhood epilepsy. [73] [74] Most epilepsy specialists order these children to eat 80% of the diet from fat by weight (90% of calories), plus carbohydrate-free vitamins and minerals to prevent vitamin deficiency. [75]
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Fat Head is a 2009 American documentary film directed by and starring comedian Tom Naughton. The film seeks to refute both the documentary Super Size Me and the lipid hypothesis , a theory of nutrition started in the early 1950s in the United States by Ancel Keys and promoted in much of the Western world.
Puff pastry, also known as pâte feuilletée, is a light, flaky pastry, its base dough (détrempe) composed of wheat flour and water. Butter or other solid fat (beurrage) is then layered into the dough. The dough is repeatedly rolled and folded, rested, re-rolled and folded, encasing solid butter between each resulting layer.
There is limited evidence that low-fat diets compared to high-fat diets, decreased men's total and free testosterone levels. [8] The decrease in testosterone on low-fat diets is thought to be due to a decrease in testicular testosterone synthesis, since both urinary testosterone and dihydrotestosterone also decrease on low-fat diets. [8]
Russell Morse Wilder Sr. (November 24, 1885 – December 16, 1959) [1] was an American physician, diabetologist, epileptologist, and medical researcher, known as one of the originators of the ketogenic ("classic keto") diet as a therapy for both epilepsy [2] [3] and diabetes. [4] [5] He coined the term "ketogenic diet."