The ultimate custom keto diet supplement plan
What are keto supplements?
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate mainstream dietary therapy that in medicine is used mainly to treat hard-to-control epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates.
How to keto work for the body?
Normally carbohydrates in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body and is important in fueling brain function. However, if only a little carbohydrate remains in the diet, the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies, the latter passing into the brain and replacing glucose as an energy source. An elevated level of ketone bodies in the blood (a state called ketosis) eventually lowers the frequency of epileptic seizures.
The original therapeutic diet for pediatric epilepsy provides just enough protein for body growth and repair, and sufficient calories to maintain the correct weight for age and height. The classic therapeutic ketogenic diet was developed for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy in the 1920s and was widely used into the next decade, but its popularity waned with the introduction of effective anticonvulsant medications. This classic ketogenic diet contains a 4:1 ketogenic ratio or ratio by weight of fat to combined protein and carbohydrate. This is achieved by excluding high-carbohydrate foods such as starchy fruits and vegetables, bread, pasta, grains, and sugar while increasing the consumption of foods high in fat such as nuts, cream, and butter.
Ketogenic Diet for Beginners
So what is Keto? What is cool science?
A keto diet is basically a low-carb, moderate protein, and high-fat diet. This might sound like some of the low-carb diets you’ve tried before but this is different!
I promise you!
By eating a particular combination of foods you stimulate your body to go into ketosis.
When your body is in ketosis it changes the way it metabolizes food and basically makes your body burn more fat! How awesome is that?
When we eat a carb and sugar-rich diet our bodies use the glucose in carbs and sugars for energy. We produce insulin that transports that glucose around our bodies.
This has been an effective way for bodies to get energy for millennia, but our diets have changed!
We now eat a LOT more sugar and carbs than ever before (seriously… there’s even sugar in bread!) and our bodies can’t store glucose, so it is converted into fat.
The trouble is when there is a ready supply of glucose, our bodies don’t use that fat.
It just sits there (on our thighs, hips, tummies….. you get the idea!).
Keto Diet Friendly Food
Meats
- Beef (Taco boat anyone?)
- Bacon
- Chicken (try out my Chicken Alfredo with Spaghetti Squash)
- Lamb
- Pork
- Turkey
- Ham
- Bologna
- Bison
- Cured Meats
- Jerky
- Duck
- Rabbit
- Veal
- Venison
- Fish & Seafood
- Oily Fish
- Cod
- Salmon
- Halibut
- Lobster
- Mackerel
- Muscles
- Oysters
- Sardines
- Shrimp
- Trout
- Grouper
- Tuna
- Clams
- Scallops
Dairy
- Butter
- Glee
- Cream
- Milk
- Eggs
- Unsweetened Greek Yogurt (occasionally)
- Sour Cream
- Full-Fat Cheese
- Cream Cheese (so you can make Peppermint Mocha No-Bake Cheesecake)
- Oils & Fats
- Coconut Oil
- Olive Oil
- Nut Oils
- Avocado Oil
- Duck/Goose Fat
- MCT Oil
- Tallow
- Lard
- Veggies for keto food list
- Vegetables
- Leafy Greens
- Bok Choy
- Cucumber
- Celery
- Eggplant
- Tomatoes
- Peppers
- Lettuce
- Brussel Sprouts
- Asparagus
- Artichokes
- Zucchini
- Spinach
- Radishes
- Sauerkraut
- Onions
- Mushrooms
- Cauliflower
- Green Beans
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Garlic
- Kale
- Leeks
- Kimchi
- Fennel
- Okra
- Spaghetti Squash (learn how to cook it 2 ways)
Fruits
- Avocado
- Berries
- Coconut
- Lime
- Lemons
- Olives
- Rhubarb
- Nuts for keto food list
- Nuts & Seeds
- Almonds
- Walnuts
- Pine Nuts
- Pecans
- Hazelnuts
- Brazil Nuts
- Macadamia Nuts
- Cashews (occasionally)
- Pistachios (occasionally)
- Hemp Seeds
- Sesame Seeds
- Sunflower Seeds
- Flaxseeds
- Chia Seeds
- Flour
- Almond Flour
- Coconut Flour
- Other Nut Flours
- Drinks
- Coffee (try Bullet Proof Coffee!)
- All Teas, especially Green Tea
- Bone Broth (check out how to make that here)
- Seltzer Water
- Lemon/Lime Juice
- Milo Water Flavors
- Unsweetened Nut Milk
- Coconut Water
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