Keto Diet Cookbook
for Beginners 2019
The Complete Guide to Ketogenic Diet to Heal Your Body, Shed Weight and Regain Confidence
Steven Cook
Copyright By Steven Cook
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Hello! Thanks for purchasing this book, A Beginners Guide To the Ketogenic Diet.
This book is for people who are considering the ketogenic diet or have decided to take it on and want to know the information on how to get started. Whether youre trying to lose weight, improve your energy levels, or protect yourself against certain diseases, your diet should be working with you, not against you. The ketogenic diet can be an essential pathway to good health.
Im a lover of great food and Keto dieter. Im not a nutritionist, professional chef, or doctor, but I have done extensive research and cooked many keto-friendly recipes. In this book, Ive collected all of the information you need to get started, and Ive done my best to word it in a way that is easy to understand. The ketogenic diet has some science lingo and occasionally complicated processes associated with it, but Ive been sure to describe it all in a readable way. There are lots of scientific studies and articles online that get further into the science side of things, if youre interested in learning more.
Eating well is very important. The ketogenic diet cuts out processed and artificial food, embraces real, high-quality ingredients, and has changed a lot of peoples lives. By purchasing this book, youve decided that you want to be one of them, so lets get started!
Chapter 1: The Ketogenic Diet Basics
The popularity of the ketogenic diet has exploded over the last few years, but it has ancient origins. In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates (known as the father of medicine) treated a man suffering from terrible seizures. The doctor recommended that his patient stop eating and drinking for a few days. The seizures stopped! Fasting became the most common prescription for people with epilepsy for over a thousand years, until 1911. Doctors wanted to come up with a treatment that didnt involve essentially starving their patients. They figured out that a diet lower in calories, no meat, and lots of veggies also reduced seizures.
In 1921, another doctor - an endocrinologist this time - learned that a low-carb, high-fat diet was just as effective. Another two years passed, and a doctor from the Mayo Clinic finally named this low-carb diet: The Ketogenic Diet. He gave it this name because of the presence of ketones, compounds produced by the liver, which appeared in the body during fasting and when a person restricts their carbs. These ketones seemed to be the reason seizures stopped.
The Science of Ketosis
What happens in the body when you eat fewer carbs and more fat? First, lets go over what happens on a normal diet high in carbs. The body turns carbs into glucose, which are the used as fuel. Thats all well and good - the body needs carbs - but when you eat too many, they body stores them as fat. Most of us eat too many carbs and are not active enough to burn them off. Now, when you switch to a low-carb, high-fat diet, your body begins producing ketones. This process is called ketosis. These ketones, like glucose, are used for fuel, but any excess is just eliminated through urine, and not stored as body fat. This makes them a highly-efficient fuel.
The body doesnt start producing ketones at just any random moment. Theres a precise ratio of fat and carbs that triggers this process. On the keto diet, your daily calories consist of 60-75% fat, 15-30% protein, and 5-10% carbs. There are three variations of the keto diet, and which is the best for you depends on your goals:
The Standard Keto Diet (SKD)
The most common ketogenic diet, the SKD is 70% fat, 25% protein, and 5% carbs. If you want to lose weight this is most likely the best choice for you.
The MCT Diet
MCT stands for medium-chain triglycerides, and this form of the diet focuses on those types of oils, which can be found in coconut products. MCT oil has been shown to kick ketosis into high-gear. You can find concentrated MCT oil or get it through coconut oil, coconut milk, cheese, butter, and yogurt. 30-60% of your fats should all come from MCT oils.
The Targeted Ketogenic Diet (TKD)
If you exercise a lot, you should eat a bit more carbs than if you werent as active. The main distinction of the TKD is that you consume 25-50 grams of clean carbs before working out. They are then quickly burned up, so youre able to stay in ketosis.
The Cyclical Ketogenic Diet (CKD)
If you are very active or a professional athlete, this form of the ketogenic diet might be healthiest for you. It consists of 5-6 days on the standard keto diet, 1-2 days of higher carb intake, and then a return to the SKD. This process ensures your body has enough carbs to build muscle and recover.
Measuring Ketones
When youre on the SKD (which we will refer to as the keto diet from now on), youre eating around 20 net carbs per day. That means grams of fiber are not included, so to get your net carbs, you would subtract the fiber from the total carbs in a particular food. To find more specific numbers based on your health goals, check out any number of the keto calculators available online. You put in information like your weight, goals, and so on to your daily calorie breakdown.
Once youre eating the right percentages, how do you know when youve entered ketosis? You measure the ketones in your body using urine strips, a blood meter, or a breath test. Urine strips measure the acetoacetate ketone, but the strips are only useful when youre first starting ketosis. Once youve been in ketosis for a while, your levels will show up lower because your body is using the acetoacetate. Blood meters test for BHB (beta-hydroxybutyrate) and are generally more accurate than urine strips. The last method, the breath test, measures acetone, which in itself isnt that significant for ketosis. However, acetone and BHB usually line up closely, so thats why the breath test is useful.
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