The ketogenic diet is a very low-carb, high-fat diet that shares many similarities with the Atkins and low-carb diets. It involves drastically reducing carbohydrate intake and replacing it with fat. This reduction in carbs puts your body into a metabolic state called ketosis. When this happens, your body becomes incredibly efficient at burning fat for energy. It also turns fat…
Ketogenic diet: Is the ultimate low-carb diet good for you? Recently, many of my patients have been asking about a ketogenic diet. Is a ketogenic diet safe? Would you recommend it? Despite the recent hype, a ketogenic diet is not something new. In medicine, we have been using it for almost 100 years to treat…
The Ketogenic Diet: A Detailed Beginner’s Guide to Keto “Ketogenic” is a term for a low-carb diet (like the Atkins diet). The idea is for you to get more calories from protein and fat and less from carbohydrates. You cut back most on the carbs that are easy to digest, like sugar, soda, pastries, and…
Do keto pills work? Sort of but experts say the keto diet is better Keto pills are a type of diet pill that advertise they can send your body into a state of ketosis to aid rapid weight loss. Ketosis is a metabolic process where your body burns fat instead of glucose for energy. It’s…
A Person Following a Keto Diet is Most Concerned with Avoiding What? For keto to work, there are things you absolutely need to avoid, e.g. bread and pasta. By avoiding these foods, you will stay within your recommended carb limit, achieve ketosis, and curb cravings. Besides high-carb food, there are also beverages and even exercises…
Full keto diet food list Eat Here are the foods that you can eat on a ketogenic diet: Meat – Unprocessed meats are low carb and keto-friendly, and organic and grass-fed meat might be even healthier. 1 But remember that keto is a higher-fat diet, not high in protein, so you don’t need huge amounts…
How do I calculate net carbs? To figure out how to calculate net carbs, let’s take a look at a simple U.S. nutrition label: The two values (and only two values) that you will be focusing on to calculate the net carb content of foods are “Total Carbohydrate” and “Dietary Fiber.” Total sugars and added…
“Is this keto-friendly?” “Can I eat this on keto?” Questions like these are asked on keto diet forums and Facebook groups multiple times a day without a definitive answer. The line between what we should eat and avoid to sustain ketosis gets blurred after we cut out the obvious high-carb foods. To truly figure out…
Keto coffee is quite a bit healthier than your average breakfast, and it has the calories to match. Commonly used in intermittent fasting, keto butter coffee gives plenty of energy and a great satiated feeling throughout the morning fasting hours. Now, I want to explain this further. Drinking this coffee will break your fast from…
We all naturally fall somewhere on the spectrum between squeaky clean keto and dirty lazy keto — even if we aren’t aware of it. The way of eating that you end up following ultimately depends on two crucial factors: (1) how healthy, sustainable, and effective the diet is for you and (2) the values that…