The Ketogenic Diet: A Seniors' Guide

Theketogenic (“keto”) diet flips the typical food pyramid on its head. Instead of a plate piled high with bread, rice and pasta, keto urges you to load up on fats and keep carbohydrates to a bare minimum. In

practice this means roughly 55–60 % of calories from fat, 30–35 % from protein and only 5–10 %

from carbohydrates1. The diet was originally devised in the 1920s to help children with

drug‑resistant epilepsy; Russell Wilder at the Mayo Clinic noticed that replacing carbohydrates with fat reduced seizure frequency2. For decades it remained a medical therapy, but in recent years it has become a trendy weight‑loss strategy.