Jamie Ken Moore - Ketogenic Diet: The Step by Step Guide For Beginners

KETOGENIC DIET

The Step by Step Guide for Beginners

Jamie Ken Moore

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Introduction

First of all, I would like to congratulate you for taking this step in moving forward on the journey to better health and effective weight loss. I am glad that this guide would be of actionable value to you and thank you for downloading this book, Ketogenic Diet. The Step by Step Guide for Beginners: Optimal Path to Effective Weight Loss .

Many have tried to do the weight loss regimes of maintaining different diets, adding on the weight loss pills and shakes, then religiously using certain exercise machines bought during the late night browsing of the TV or the web, only to have it either fail in the pursuit of weight loss or to achieve some nominal success but then gain back all the weight and more when the dieting becomes too tough to endure. Does this all sound familiar? .

What would you think if somebody were to tell you that you would be able to lose weight effectively, gain more energy in your daily life and really, really enjoy better overall health if it just needed a change in your diet that doesnt drive you crazy with hunger pangs whilst you are on it?

The ketogenic diet is one diet that is able to fulfil all that and perhaps more with its primary focus on a low carbohydrate intake, moderate protein and high healthy fat dietary content. The diet gives you the ability to lose weight due to fat burning processes that occur the whole day, even in your sleep!

This book will draw up the benefits of the ketogenic diet for you, talk about how and why the ketogenic diet works and most importantly, give you structured easy to follow steps on getting started and maintaining the ketogenic diet for the benefits of weight loss and better health.

I really do hope this book will serve to give you the confidence and knowledge to start embarking on your own personal ketogenic journey. Cheers!

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CHAPTER 1

Ketogenic Diet: The Essentials

What is the Ketogenic Diet?

You all know that our body needs energy for its functioning and the energy sources come from carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Owing to years of conditioning that a low fat carbohydrate rich diet is essential for good health, we have become used to depending on glucose (from carbohydrates) to get most of the energy that our body needs. Only when the amount of glucose available for energy generation decreases, does our body begin to break down fat for drawing energy to power our cells and organs. This is the express purpose of a ketogenic diet.

The primary aim of a ketogenic diet (called simply as keto diet) is to convert your body into a fat-burning machine. Such a diet is loaded with benefits and is highly recommended by nutritional experts for the following end results:

• Natural appetite control
• Increased mental clarity
• Lowered levels of inflammation in the body system
• Improved stability in blood sugar levels
• Elimination or lower risk of heartburn
• Using of natural stored body fat as fuel source
• Weight loss

The effects listed are just some of the numerous effects that take place when a person embarks on a ketogenic diet and makes it a point to stick to it. A ketogenic diet consists of meals with low carbohydrates, moderate proteins, and high-fat content. The mechanism works like this: when we drastically reduce intake of carbohydrates, our body is compelled to convert fat for releasing energy. This process of converting fats instead of carbohydrates to release energy is called ketosis.

A Little History

The ketogenic diet can very well trace its roots to the ancients, where it was purported that the diet was part of the therapy used to treat epilepsy. Hippocratic medicine practitioners, named after the famed physician of the same name, believed in treating the epileptic seizures and the accompanying symptoms of epilepsy using dietetic therapy, where the role of dieting and fasting played a large part in the success of the treatment.

The ketogenic diet was also very much present during the 1920s and 1930s as an effective treatment tool to control seizures in refractory childhood epilepsy. However when the anticonvulsant medication Dilantin surfaced in 1937, the masses were swift to embrace the quick but temporary solution found in the drug and discarded the natural means of therapy.

As luck would have it, the ketogenic diet has seen something of a renaissance in recent times, which coincided with the fact that researchers were starting to finally agree that not all fat was bad, and that mostly it was good fat that is present in most natural food sources.

This wouldnt be a surprise as the keto diet emphasizes a lot on natural dietary fat consumption. With this resurgence of a natural dietary option that changes the way your body fuels itself, I am glad to be amongst the people who have benefited from this diet. You will too, just read on!

Ketosis Need to Know

Ketosis is essentially a metabolic state that draws its name from ketones that are produced when the body switches from using carbohydrates to burning fats as a primary means to power the bodys organs and cells. Ketones have been found to be the preferred fuel source for the majority of our body organs, especially the heart as well as the brain, and it is essentially the state of ketosis which brings forth much of the benefits you will experience.

Yet there have been some quarters which voice negativity over ketosis, which sounds similar to the word ketoacidosis, the latter being a life threatening situation that develops in type 1 diabetics. Doctors are worried about ketoacidosis because it occurs when type 1 diabetics cannot produce enough insulin, which then leads the body to think that there is no glucose available and hence burn fat, which produces the much underrated ketones for energy.