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The Fantastic Ketogenic Instant Pot Cookbook
Michael J. Bailey
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H i there! Thanks for downloading my book The Fantastic Ketogenic Instant Pot Cookbook.
Chances are, you already know about the Ketogenic diet, right? In that case, you can skip right past the brief introduction to it below.
However, if you are new, just trying to get your feet wet and soak up all that you can, then spend a little time getting to know the little tidbits mentioned below. Knowledge is power after all, so dont skimp on it!
In Simple Terms: What is The Ketogenic Diet?
The Ketogenic Diet is a diet comprising of low-carbohydrate (ideally about 20g per day, but possibly up to 50g), sufficient-protein, and high-fat. This type of diet enables the body to burn fat instead of carbohydrates and helps a lot in weight loss.
Importance of The Ketogenic Diet
T he Ketogenic diets play an important role in medical sciences as it is used as a cure for epilepsy in children. Glucose & insulin are produced by taking a high amount of carbohydrates. These carbohydrates have the ability to transform into glucose and are utilized in stimulating brain-functioning. High carbohydrates force the human body to utilize glucose as the main form of energy, leading into fat storage in the body. In case of low carbohydrates in the diet, the liver converts the fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. These ketone bodies are the reason for passing into the brain and utilize glucose as the main energy source.
The body naturally initiates the process of ketosis in case of low food consumption. The aim of having a ketogenic diet is to enable your body to a metabolic state that it burns fat. Lowering the carbohydrates & excess of fats, ketones will act as the prime source of energy for the body. Ketones contribute to enhancing many capabilities like losing weight, increase in mental health and in physical performance of the body.
Advantages of The Ketogenic Diet
A ketogenic diet has many benefits varying from small scale to a much larger scale. Some of these benefits are addressed below:
1. Assists in Losing Weight
Due to the utilization of body fats in a ketogenic diet, an evident weight loss can be seen. It helps in lowering down the insulin level, which doesnt let the body to store more fat.
2. Enhances Mental Focus
Low carbohydrates intake leads into lowering of blood sugar. This leads ketones as a source of stimulator to brain-functioning.
3. For Treatment of Epilepsy
Epileptic seizures have been reduced a lot with the usage of ketogenic diets. Previously only children were treated by ketogenic diets, but presently adults are also being treated for epilepsy by this diet.
4. Controlling of Blood Sugar
Ketogenic diets are capable of controlling the blood sugar levels in the body. By this they are controlling diabetes.
5. Acne Treatment
Ketogenic diets helps in skin issues like acne by lowering inflammations in the skin & lesions.
6. Optimization of Insulin
Insulin levels are regulated with the help of ketogenic diets, thus the threat of diabetes is lowered.
Productive Ketogenic Diet Tips
T he ketogenic diet is beneficial in weight loss, enhancing energy levels and eliminates the threat of certain diseases.
1. Fitful Fasting
2. Perform Regular Exercise
3. Lower Protein Intake
4. Improvement in Sleep
5. Increase Water Intake
6. Increase consumption of Salts
7. Opt for Carbohydrates Wisely
8. Dont Stress Out
Foods You Should Consume
Foods like spinach (leafy greens), cheese, butter (High Fat Dairy), raspberries, nuts & broccoli, etc. should be consumed.
Foods You Should Not Consume
Foods like corn, rice (grains), fruits, honey (sugar) etc. should be avoided, in addition to highly processed carbohydrates as wel.
Instant Pot: An Innovative Step In Cooking
I nstant Pot is a more developed form of a pressure cooker, slow cooker, saut pan, food warmer and many more kitchen appliances, and is set to replace them with its modern & technologically advanced functions. Its purpose is to make food instantly without altering its nutrients and taste.
Why an Instant Pot?
In the present-day modern world, its easier to get cooked meals than cooking your own food. Hasty daily life has deprived almost every individual the access to healthy food and had caused a severe impact on health conditions. Due to this, everyone is looking for easy and quick ways to get healthy food. An instant pot is a solution to these issues.
It is a programmable pressure cooker, technologically advanced with Bluetooth connectivity, safe and much convenient in usage. It cooks food 2-6 times faster than conventional cooking appliances, which appeals modern day individuals a lot.
If you want to have healthy, nutrition-full diet in less time, an instant pot is an ideal solution. It is a mono-pot multi cooker, having the capability to cook healthy meals for health-conscious people. It does not alter the nutrients in the food, enhances their taste and above all takes very less time in serving you the food of your choice to make you remain healthy.
Due to all these factors, instant pot has around one million consumers on Amazon and has great consumer reviews. It has taken culinary to a more advanced, nutritional and tasty level and the world is going crazy over it.