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"Following a ketogenic diet changes your fuel source from one that primarily burns carbohydrates to one that burns fat," says Olivia Wagner, RDN, a functional dietitian at Liv Nourished in Chicago. If you find that your results are plateauing while on keto, you may want to take it easy on the cheese, says April Murray, RDN, founder of Orange County Nutrition Coaching in Costa Mesa, California. And if you want to feel better and reap all the benefits of a keto diet, this is not a rule you can tread lightly on. One of the perks of a keto diet, followers say, is that cheese is not off-limits. For example, in a study on more than 2,500 men who self-reported their intake of dairy products, a higher consumption of cheese specifically was associated with a lower BMI after a five-year follow-up, per an study published in October 2018 in Nutrients. 7 Observational studies show that drinking diet soft drinks is associated with higher BMIs and higher rates of cardiovascular disease. We need to be able to rationalize the negative aspects of any environmental disease.