What is the Ketogenic Diet?
Your body uses what you eat to give you energy. Carbohydrates raise your blood sugar levels, and your body reacts by producing insulin to deal with it. Unfortunately, insulin aids in converting glucose to fat, which is then stored in your body’s cells.
A ketogenic diet is designed to make your body burn fat instead of carbohydrates. It is comprised mainly of a high fat diet with low carb foods and normal levels of protein. Carbohydrates are kept below 60g and preferably around the 20g to 40g level on a daily basis. Slight overage once in a while is not too bad, but where possible less than 50g is the best way to go. This keeps the body in a state of ketosis, whereby the body is burning fat as the steady source of energy.
Whilst the actual dietary ingredients of ketosis are important, sensible exercise also plays a big part in losing weight and fine tuning the body’s metabolism.
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