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vendredi 26 octobre 2018

Fundamentals of Intermittent Fasting US

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Fundamentals of Intermittent Fasting US

Fundamentals of Intermittent Fasting US

Intermittent Fasting US

First, intermittent fasting us or IF is not a calorie-restrictive diet. The focus of intermittent fasting us (IF) is on when you can eat, rather than what you eat. The rule is simple: eat as much as you want for a certain period, this is the eating window. Then you stop eating for a certain period which is the fasting period. The main purpose of the fasting period is to get the body to use stored fat as energy. Fat stored in the body is used more easily when you are not eating. This is the period when the body enters the ketogenic state. The body burns fat stores to create ketones, which will serve as energy for many cellular processes.
Is fasting difficult? Fasting is not a new concept. Your body enters the fasting period when you are asleep. If you eat right before bedtime and sleep for 8 hours, then you immediately eat breakfast upon waking up, you have fasted for 8 hours. Hence the name break-fast, or breakfast.
IF recommends extending that fasting period to lose weight. This may seem difficult at first, but it is doable. You may not have realized it, but you may have unintentionally fasted for 12 hours or more by skipping meals. Only with IF, you follow a specific schedule for fasting to get the results you are looking for.

 Sample illustration:
 Dinner 7:00 pm
 Bedtime: 12
Waking time: 6:00 am
 Breakfast: 7:00 am

If you ate nothing between dinner and bedtime, you were without food for 5 hours. Then, you slept from midnight to 6:00 am, that's another 6 hours, add the 1 hour before breakfast and you fasted for a total of 12 hours.
Supposing you skipped breakfast, and your first meal was at noon, then you would have a total of 17 hours. Intermittent Fasting us is doable, it just involves careful planning and strict implementation. The program allows you to go on for hours without food, then tells you to eat anything you want after the fast.

How does that even make you lose weight? 


It works because there is a window for fasting and for eating. You decide on what works for you. For instance, you choose the 16/8 window hours. That's 16 hours of fasting, and 8 hours when can eat anything you want. You can drink water and other no-calorie drinks during the fasting window. If you opt for coffee, don't add creamer or milk. 
Eating window The next major element of intermittent fasting is the eating window. This is a period allotted for eating anything. How long it lasts depends on you. 
Some people like to take it easy and go for a 16/8 IF. That means fasting for 16 hours, including time spent sleeping. The remaining 8 hours is the eating window. The eating window does not mean you continuously eat for 8 hours. You are allowed to eat whenever you are hungry during the eating window, beyond that you stop eating. Going back to the 16/8. Fast for 16 hours by skipping breakfast then spend 8 hours in the eating window time. The first meal of the day is at noon. You can eat anything between noon to 8 pm. After 8 pm, you will not consume food until noon the next day. This is the simplest intermittent fasting schedule. There are different variations to follow. The program is flexible and accommodates changes in schedules or what is most convenient for you. 

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jeudi 25 octobre 2018

WHY A DIET MINDSET NEEDS A MAKEOVER

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WHY A DIET MINDSET NEEDS A MAKEOVER

 WHY A DIET MINDSET NEEDS A MAKEOVER 

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I am so thrilled you've taken such a pivotal step toward rchairing your relationship with food . If you're reading this, you most likely have been 'around the diet block' a few times. Whether you dieted to lose weight, to prevent gaining weight, to improve your general health, or to improve your athletic performance, somewhere along the way you started to pay attention to what you were eating. That is a wonderful thing! Valuing your health and taking steps to take care of your body by feeding it well is something to be deeply proud of. Bringing a level of awareness and mindfulness to our eating is a powerful way to promote health. I just want to be sure that a critical point is brought front and center from the beginning: There is a difference between healthy eating and dieting us.

Dieting Versus Healthy Eating

 Dieting us is typically done to lose weight. Of course, you can follow a specific diet for other reasons, like a medically restricted diet, or one which excludes allergens that could kill you. But by and large, most people start diets to lose weight or prevent gaining it. Dieting is a method to manipulate and control weight, regardless ofyour actual beaah. Healthy eating, on the other hand, is something completely separate from the scale. It's a broader, more all-encompassing goal of wellness. It's about nourishing your body and caring for yourself, no matter what you weigh or how your food affects your weight. There are many benefits to improving your way of eating, besides the potential to lose excess weight. Focusing on healthy eating means we focus on all those health benefits, rather than on a scale number. For most of us, diets were our introduction to changing our eating patterns. But most diets have some negative side effects: 
• They reduce eating down into calories, macros (percentages of protein, carbohydrate, and fat), and points, essentially turning it into a math equation.
 • They give you rules to follow, foods that are good or bad, allowed or forbidden.
 • They cause you to worry about all the things that are bad for you and how everything you've done before has been 'wrong.'
 • They make your weight the sole determination of progress. 
• They call anything you do outside of the diet a 'cheat' or a 
failure. 
There is so much mental anguish that comes along for the ride when we diet, and it ends up ruining our relationship with food. 
Constantly dieting us also keeps you in a perpetual state of working on your weight, rather than actually living life. It becomes all-consuming. Every food choice we make gets overanalyzed in terms of how it impacts your body or your compliance with the diet. There is no wiggle room, no flexibility for the fluidity that is real life. There is just rigidity. And rules. And fear-mongering. And guilt. And constantly starting over again and again. It's a vicious cycle. The people selling us diets don't have our best interests (like our health) in mind. They just want to sell more diet shakes, protein bars, and restrictive meal plans. It's an entire industry built around making us feel bad about ourselves and our health so they can keep raking in billions of dollars in our perpetual pursuit of thinness. They know that most diets fail and that theirs eventually will too. But they keep pushing it, because they know well continue getting frustrated and keep coming back to try again and again. They know that once we start dieting us, we'll end up stuck in a diet cycle of being constantly on-again and off-again with diets. 
The Diet Cycle Affects Us and Our Kids When we have kids, the mental anguish and damaged food relationship we've built up over the years manifests into how we feed them. As parents, we want the best for our kids in pretty much every way. That, of course, includes doing our best to feed them well. We try to do so in a way that nourishes them, helps them to grow up healthy and strong, and fuels their nonstop activity level, all while making sure that we do what we can to prevent them from becoming overweight 
We are truly afraid of raising an overweight child. And that makes sense. Childhood obesity rates have skyrocketed. Health issues that were once considered adult-only problems such as high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes are now presenting in younger and younger children. We want to spare our kids these health problems. But it's not just that. If we have ever been overweight ourselves, we know first-hand how cruel other people can be about weight. We know the comments and judgments that are given freely by others. We know how hard being large in a society that values thinness can be. For many of us, it's why we went on our own first diet in the first place! 

Having gone through the diet cycle ourselves, we want to do everything in our power to prevent our kids from ever having (or wanting) to diet We want to help them grow up with healthy habits and already having a healthy and happy relationship with food. We want them to enjoy eating like we used to, and not have to worry about their size or shape. 

The Goal of This Makeover

 In essence, we want for our kids what we didn't have. Somewhere along the way, we started to dislike our bodies and feel some level of shame for our size or shape. We decided we wanted to change ourselves, and that we were okay putting ourselves through miserable rules in the name of eating better. We figured it made sense to micro-manage our food and take the joy out of eating. 






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mardi 23 octobre 2018

Advantages of Keto Diet US

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Advantages of Keto Diet US 

Advantages of Keto Diet

The advantages of keto diet us are almost similar to other diets based on low carb intakq the only difference is that the keto diet us is more powerful and efficient in its benefits. In simpler words, the keto diet is a low carb diet plan with super-charged powers compared to its competitors and has maximum benefits to offer for the users. A few of its major benefits are as follows:

Weight Loss:

 The fact that the body uses fats as an energy source logically explain how the keto diet us is beneficial in weight loss. Fat loss is stimulated as the insulin levels are dropped low. This situation provides an ideal situation for drastic fat loss, resulting in weight loss effectively without hunger. It is to note that, above 20 modem types of research has verified that the keto diet us is more effective than other similar diet plans in its weight loss factor.

 Controlled Appetite: 

The keto diet us lets you control your appetite. This is due to the fact that, when fats are burned drastically, the body has access to surplus energy from them and results in a reduction of hunger.

The lower urge to eat food or controlled appetite also helps a lot to avoid sugar and food addiction alongside eating disorders like bulimia etc. The feeling of satisfaction is an integral part of the solution. Food becomes a friend and a fueling source instead of an enemy with the ketogenic diet plan. 

Surplus Energy and Mental Boosting: 

The process of ketosis provides a steady flow of energy in the form of ketones to the brain resulting in avoiding blood sugar swings. This results in improvement in mental focus and concentration and also clear away brain fog too. The main reason for the popularity of the keto diet is tits benefits regarding mental health and focus. These benefits can be easily experienced while being in ketosis. During ketosis, the human brain is provided with surplus energy round the clock in the form of ketones instead of carbs which is the reason for the improved mental performance of the human body. Reversing Type-2 Diabetes & Controlling Blood Sugar:
 Although ketogenic diet us is not scientifically acknowledged as a long-term solution to type 2 diabetes, it is credited to the fact that keto diet lowers down blood sugar levels in the body and also lowers the negative role of higher insulin levels. The fact that keto diet is very efficient in reversing type-2 diabetes also suggests that it is very helpful in avoiding it in the first place apart from reversing pre-diabetic conditions. 

Improvement in Health Markers:

 Lower carb intake results in improvement in critical health markers like blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels (triglycerides and HDL) and in blood pressure. These health markers are associated with metabolic syndrome, weight improvements, reversal of type-2 diabetes and waist circumference etc. 

Stomach Improvement: 

Keto diet us has many efficiency improvements in stomach health. It lowers cramps and pains alongside less or entirely no gas at all in the stomach. It an be experienced within the initial 2-3 days of following the ketogenic diet us plan. FODMAP contains a high amount of carbs and they start fermentation in the small intestine which leads to bloating and gas. The gut walls are unable to absorb them properly and cause the fluid stuck in the intestine thus resulting in diarrhea. The keto diet is a much low 

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Overview of the Ketogenic Diet us for Beginners

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Overview of the Ketogenic Diet us for Beginners

Overview of the Ketogenic Diet us for Beginners


Ketogenic Diet for Beginners
The ketogenic diet us is based on utilizing carbs as an energy source which uses fats as the main energy source for the working of the body. The kern vegetarian diet comprises on specifically plant-based foods which are rich in carbs and can be used as the main energy source for the effective and healthy working of the body. The diet has numerous health benefits which include enhanced efficiency of the body, healthy metabolism, and the most important one i.e. weight loss. This book is going to cover every aspect regarding the kern vegetarian diet and the entire process of ketosis for better understanding of beginners for following this diet plan. Thus, a wide range of options for nutritious, yet delicious recipes on the cheap will also be introduced to vegetarians who are about to embark on ketogenic diet us.

What does "keto" means? 

The body starts using ketones instead of glucose as an energy medium for its working after shifting on a ketogenic diet us. The ketones are responsible or the word 'keto' in the diet plan are utilized in the minimum presence of blood sugar in the body. Ketones are produced by eating a low carb diet and a mild protein supply. The main production source of ketones are fats and they are produced in the liver. They are used for the working of the body including the brain. Alteration to ketones from glucose results in excessive fat burning while lowering insulin levels in the body. This has a very impulsive effect on losing weight apart from various other health benefits. The effective method to achieve ketones i.e. production of ketones is to fast. But as fasting can't be done for a longer time, keto diet is an alternative approach to fasting, having the same benefits like fasting but without actually fasting at all. 

Who Shouldn't Go for the Ketogenic Diet ? 

In general cases the keno diet is perfect but people with falling under the following categories are to consult their doctors before going on this diet, these include:
• Diabetic Patients
 • Blood Pressure related Patients 
• Breastfeeding Mothers

 Advice for Breastfeeding Mothers and Diabetics: 

It is very dangerous to eat a strict low-carb diet while breastfeeding, a safer low-carb diet would be having 50g carbs/day. You can achieve this by adding 3-4 large fruits to your strict plan, in case of any abnormality or complication, immediately visit a doctor. It is also advised to drink an adequate supply of water to lower the risk of dehydration for better milk production. Enhance your fiber, fats and veggie intake for maintaining your energy levels. For breastfeeding, it is preferred to consider a slightly moderate keto plan instead of a strict one.

 At first, it's not recommended for diabetics to go for the keto diet, in case you want to be on the diet plan, strictly check your blood sugar levels on daily basis to keep them under the normal levels. You also have to keep a check on ketone levels in your body to avoid the risk of DICA (Diabetic Ketoacidosis) or in rare cases coma. It is recommended by the ADA (American Diabetes Association) to test your ketones if your blood sugar surpasses 240 mg/dL. It is also advisable for those with type 2 diabetes to stick to the ketogenic diet as a phase, not as long-term treatment of the disease. 


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lundi 22 octobre 2018

Essentials of Ketogenic Diet US

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Essentials of Ketogenic Diet us


 The ketogenic diet us plays an essential role in the field of medicine, as it is used to treat epilepsy in children. High carbs intake leads to the production of glucose and insulin. The carbohydrates have the function of being converted into glucose, which is translocated around the body and fuels the brain-function. High carbs compel the body to use glucose as the central form of energy due to which the fats are stored in the body. In case, the diet has very little carbohydrate, fat is converted into fatty acids and ketone bodies by the liver. The ketone bodies serve the function of passing into brain and substituting glucose as an energy source. When the level of ketone bodies is increased in the blood, the state is known as ketosis which reduces the occurrence of epileptic seizures.
When the food intake is low, the process of ketosis is naturally initiated by the body to help us survive. The major goal of the keto diet is to bring your body into such a metabolic state that the body starts burning fats. Starvation of carbohydrates, rather than the starvation of calories is required. Whatever you put into your body, your body becomes highly adaptive to it. On snatching the carbohydrates and overloading with the fats, the ketones will be burned as primary energy source by the body. Many weight loss, health, mental and physical performance benefits can be attributed to the optimal ketone levels.

Benefits of Ketogenic Diet US 

The ketogenic diet us is full of benefits, from the small ones to the large ones. Some of the benefits are enlisted below.

 i. Helps in Weight Loss

 As the body fats are utilized in the ketogenic diet, so an obvious weight loss is observed. The ketogenic diet us leads to the lowering of the insulin levels which then forbid the body to store fat.

 2. Increases Mental Focus 

It has been seen that mental performance is greatly increased by the ketogenic diet us. One of the greatest fuels for the brain is ketones. On lowering Garbs intake, the blood sugar is lowered and ketones are in action. These hvo factors collectively enhance the mental focus and concentration by improving the brain function.

3. Treats Epilepsy

 The ketogenic diet us has played a major role in reducing the epileptic seizures. The epilepsy was previously treated in the children by the keto diet, but now the adults are also being treated by this diet.


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dimanche 21 octobre 2018

INFLAMMATION AND THE CAUSES OF BACK PAIN US

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INFLAMMATION AND THE CAUSES OF BACK PAIN US

INFLAMMATION AND THE CAUSES OF BACK PAIN US


Before I elaborate on the causes of back pain us, I would like readers to understand the ways in which the parts of the body are interconnected. Specifically, it's important to see just how inflammation affects the back. Inflammation, or swelling, as well as redness and pain, are normally part of a healthy immune response. When an injury occurs, inflammation is initiated to help your body protect that injured part. The body also produces elevated levels of corti-sol, a hormone that maintains the body's connective tissue and begins the healing process following an injury. However, when your cortisol levels have been elevated for a prolonged period of time, you develop chronic inflammation, which actually de-stroys healthy tissue and has been found to cause or be a factor in cancer, diabetes, depression, heart disease, stroke, and Alz-heimer's disease. To this list of ailments, I would add back pain us, as well as tension in the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and discs. It is chronic inflammation that makes our backs susceptible to "going out" after we make simple movements.

There are three causes of chronic inflammation resulting in back pain us: 

1. Structural Inflammation.

 This is the swelling found in muscles, bones, discs, nerves, and posture, and it is the most obvious and easy-to-understand culprit During the day, our bodies undergo an almost endless list of physical stressors—whether it be from lugging bags, commuting, sitting all day in uncomfortable chairs in an office, walking in unsupportive footwear. All of these things cause irritation and inflammation. Those in the medical field currently spend the large majority of their resources on diagnosing and treating back pain us for structural causes alone. Unfortunately, based on back pain statistics, the treatment results are quite unsuc-cessful, proving that our laser-focus on just structural inflammation is an incomplete approach to treatment. 

2. Emotional Inflammation.

 In a landmark study, re-searchers at Stanford University discovered that stress combined with emotional outlook was the number one factor for back pain us. When our bodies are under pro-longed periods of stress, our levels of cortisol, known as our stress hormone, spike, triggering the inflammatory response and causing our mind and back to become uptight. Our society has ever so slowly acknowledged the role our emotional tension is having on our backs. Therapeutic practices such as mindfulness and medita-tion are becoming more and more commonplace, and therapy is viewed as a helpful treatment for back pain us. 

3. Nutritional or Digestive Inflammation.

 This area is most lacking in medical research. It is also the area least understood or acknowledged by back pain suffer-ers—and is consequently the impetus for The Back Pain Relief Diet. The remainder of this chapter will deal spe-cifically with nurturing a better understanding of the role of digestive inflammation in our daily lives and the extent to which it can harm your body. 

THE DEAL WITH DIGESTION 

The world of digestive upsets is not a welcoming one. You may be aware that you have a sensitive stomach, but you may not realize how far-reaching the chemical effects are on the rest of your body. Our bodies react to what we eat or drink with a viscerosomatic response. Viscero means "organ"; somatic refers to the body—in this case, the musculoskeletal system. Some of what we consume is soothing to the body; some irritates it and causes pain. This viscerosomatic response to what we eat can range from being alert after morning coffee, to feeling sleepy from the tryptophan in turkey; to getting an upset stomach from something acidic, to developing back pain us. Have you ever been hung over? You proba-bly remember the headache, as well as the upset stomach. But try to recall: how did your muscles feel? Loose and limber or tight and achy? You probably didn't feel like exercising nor would you have a good workout if you tried. This was a viscerosomatic reaction to alcohol and is an example of what happens to your body over time with foods that create inflammation. Because there isn't usually an immediate reaction to the wrong foods unless you have a food allergy—such as lactose intolerance, for instance—the connection isn't often made. In fact, the most overlooked cause of back pain is diet While there are thousands of studies on how nutrition im-pacts muscular function, very few health professionals have con-nected the dots between digestive function and nutrition to back pain us. Chronic pain, particularly in the back can be tied to body inflammation. This is not the kind of inflammation or swelling you see with an acute injury, but instead chronic inflammation can occur internally throughout the body in response to a poor diet that results in low digestive function. 

POOR DIETS AND OTHER PROBLEMS 

Studies confirm that there is an association between back pain us and being overweight or obese. The correlation seems obvious: the more you weigh, the more your bones—especially the spine—must bear. Interestingly, some studies also suggest that the asso-ciation may not be only musculoskeletal, but that obesity-related stomach inflammation caused by the toxicity of unhealthy eat-ing may also play a role in low back pain us. Therefore, recommen-dations for a healthful diet to help treat back pain for anyone who is overweight or obese are warranted. In a 1995 report published in The Lancet, researchers in Fin-land corroborated this perspective when they conducted autop-sies on people who died from non-related back issues but who were on record as having suffered from back pain. What they discovered was that people who had suffered from back pain us had many more blocked arteries to the spine than people who never had back pain troubles. This was proof that poor diet choices can and do clog arteries! 




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samedi 20 octobre 2018

The Basics of the Ketogenic Diet US

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The Basics of the Ketogenic Diet US

The Basics of the Ketogenic Diet US


The Ketogenic Diet us is not just a diet, but a large part of an entire change to your overall lifestyle. There are millions of people that have taken the Keto Diet seriously and experienced amazing results. Whether you believe it or not, I know you have the power within you to make this healthy change, too! 

Instead of using excuses and placing roadblocks in your way, you do have what it takes to look great as you devour delicious and natural foods that will benefit both your mental and physical health and give you the energy to take life by the horns! 

Of course, to be successful on any diet, you will need to understand the basics of how the human body functions and how diets effect your physical wellbeing. 

There is an array of low-calorie, gluten-free, and low-fat diets out there. I have no doubt that you have heard of South Beach, Weight Watches, Atkins, and the hundreds of other similar diet fads. What do all these diets have in common? They make you starve yourself as you try to stomach bland foods and push through phases of induction. 
It is not rocket science; these diets are not all nutritionally sound and can make you feel worse than you were when you were hitting the drive-thru every day. These are not sustainable and cannot become a part of your long-term lifestyle. 
So, what do the better and more successful diets that people talk about have in common? Simple, a reduction of foods that are high in carbohydrates. It has been scientifically proven that low-carb diets help reduce weight with the consumption of fewer calories than that of low-fat diets. These dieters also have improved insulin and blood sugar levels, as well as triglyceride numbers. 
If have purchased this book with not one due as to what the Ketogenic Diet is, there is no need to fret. We will discuss the details about the crucial aspects as to what has made this diet so popular. 

What is the Ketogenic Diet us?

 Before we dive in, you can rest assured that this diet, in particular, does not shackle you with the task of counting calories. It simply is centered around the consumption of devouring a diet this is low in carbohydrates and high in fat. 
`What? High in fat? Isn't eating too much fat terrible for your body?' 
You would naturally think this because that is what we have been taught to believe since we were wee tots! But the ketogenic diet us stems directly from the natural process known as 'ketosis' that gives our bodies the opportunity to thrive when our intake of food is lowered. The phrase 'ketogenic' is stemmed from the natural process of 'ketosis', which allows our bodies to thrive when the intake of food might be low. Ketones are produced during this process as fats in our livers break down. The entire goal of the ketogenic diet is to force our bodies to stay within this state of high metabolism. 
No, it is not about starving yourself and keeping yourself from consuming food, but rather the starvation of consuming carbohydrates. Humans have not changed in the fad that we can adapt to our environments at drastic speeds. When you pack your body with bad edibles, it will start to burn those precious ketones that are partially responsible for weight loss and optimum mental and physical performance. 

How the Keto Came to Be

 Weirdly enough, the ketogenic diet has been around for quite a few decades. It was developed by a guy named Dr. Russell Wilder back in the year 1924. It was quite the concoction that treated epilepsy but unfortunately fell through due to the creation of anti-seizure medications that came about during the 1940's. It didn't make much of an appearance until the mid-1990's, when the Abraham family began the Charlie Foundation for their son, Charlie. Charlie's body did not handle all of that anti-seizure pill-popping very well. He began following the means of the ketogenic diet us as a toddler and stuck to it for a time period of five years. He is now a successful college student and is still to this day seizure-free. 
The bottom line is that the ketogenic diet us is made up of extremely low-carb and high-fat intakes. This diet is quite like that of the Atkins and other low-carb diets. While you are reducing your intake of carbohydrates by such drastic amounts, you are replacing it with foods high in fat. 
The absence of carbs creates a highly metabolic state within your body, known as ketosis (as mentioned above.) In Layman's terms, our body becomes an incredibly powered working machine, burning off fat for energy instead of ketones. It warps our metabolisms so that it no longer bums precious substances utilized to keep our bodies in the best shape they can be. 
This diet has been shown to reduce blood sugars and insulin levels, which makes it a diet that is loaded with quite a few health benefits. You will read about some of these benefits later in this chapter. 

The Fundamentals of Ketosis

 When your body is in a ketosis state, your liver creates ketones which then are your body's main source of energy. The core of the ketogenic diet is based on the idea that our bodies were made to run better as a fat burner rather than a burner of sugar and carbs for energy. The ketogenic diet reverses the way in which your body functions in a positive manner. This means it has the power to totally change your perspective of healthy nutrition! 
The primary goal of maintaining ketosis on the ketogenic diet is to force your body to a metabolic state. You do not want to do this through starvation, but rather through the starvation of carbohydrates. Our bodies are very adaptable, so when you switch your diet by loading it with fats instead of carbs, your 





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