By now you probably know a ketogenic diet is designed to keep sugary carbohydrates out of your system, allowing your body to burn clean fat sources as energy, which is the ordinary way humans evolved to transform food into energy. The diet helps organize your food intake to keep healthy fats high, proteins at a […]
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How Much Glucose Does the Body Really Need?
We’re trained to believe we need to consume a large amount of carbohydrates ‘for energy’. The famous food pyramid shown in schools, promoted by education funded by the sugar and grain industries and supported by the food industry, has that huge base layer of the ‘bread and grains’ food group, after all. We ‘know’ that […]
What We Eat Can Activate Genes and Protect Cells from Effects of Aging
Even if people may claim they don’t mind aging, it’s likely far from the truth. Aging takes a toll on our energy, skin, and can lead to health problems from diabetes to, at worst,cancer. Before long, our bad eating habits can start catching up with us and unfortunately can lead to irreversible consequences. However, there’s […]
Control Chronic Inflammation: The Doctor Will Smile!
Chronic inflammation is a dangerous condition that can lead to a variety of serious effects and can even damage your body over the long term. Inflammation can lead to memory loss and cognitive decline, higher risk of heart problems, abnormal growth of healthy cells, compromised digestion, loss of muscle tone, weight gain, accelerated skin aging, […]
How to Energize the Brain Naturally
A ketogenic diet is great for weight loss, but did you know it improves brain function? People following a keto diet report clearer thought, better memory recall, and improved learning and science backs up their claims. Animal studies show that rats on a ketogenic diet had improved cognitive performance as they aged. A different rat […]
Exposed: Common Chemical Linked to Obesity & Cancer
Scientists from the University of Exeter conducted a study to discover the extent of public exposure to a chemical known as Bisphenol A (BPA). The chemical is known to be dangerous to humans, and is especially dangerous for children and for pregnant women. Once in the body, it mimics the sex hormone estrogen. Exposure to […]
Don’t Dig an Early Grave With a Fork
Millions of people fail at weight loss because we’ve been trained to eat exactly the wrong foods. We’ve also been taught to avoid lots of beneficial foods. This makes it difficult to maintain a healthy weight and body composition and even when we overcome this, we’re often stuck with a diet and exercise regimen that’s […]
Want Low-Carb Fries With That?
With so many amazing keto-friendly specialty foods available that people might not get to enjoy outside of a low-carb diet, it’s still the old favorites we’re told we CAN’T eat that tempt us the most! And for some keto people, the humble French fry is among the most-missed tempting foods – maybe right after a […]
Low-Carb Delicious: Rich, Flavorful, Heart-warming Soup
While winter isn’t everyone’s favorite season and the keto diet has some perfect comfort food solutions to warm you up and keep your carbs down, like this broccoli cheese soup. It’ll warm you up even during the coldest winter storms, and it’ll keep you on track to have a healthier year. Broccoli cheese soup is […]
Manage the Body Fat Setpoint to Blast Weight-Loss Barriers
The ketogenic diet relies on cutting carbohydrates to a low level, especially the easily absorbed sugar carbs. Eating elevated amounts of dietary carbohydrates helps keep your body in a mode where it’s always ready to store the excess not burned off in exercise or normal metabolic processes as fat. The body tries to keep the […]
