Dr. Michael Ericsson - Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: Keto Diet Recipes For Lose Weight Quickly, Lower Blood Pressure, Transform Your Body & Improve Your Health

Ketogenic Diet Cookbook

Keto Diet Recipes For Lose Weight Quickly, Lower Blood Pressure, Transform Your Body & Improve Your Health

By: Dr. Michael Ericsson

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Table Of Contents

I ntroduction

Chapter 1 - Basic Information about Ketogenic Diet

Chapter 2 - What are the Benefits of the Ketogenic Diet

Chapter 3 - What to eat on a Keto Diet and what to avoid

Chapter 4 - The Ketogenic Diet Recipes and Sample Diet Plan

Chapter 5 - Exercise, stress management and mindset

Conclusion

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Chapter 1 Basic Information about Ketogenic Diet

T here are plenty of fad diets floating around in the weight loss market and they can range from weird to expensive. But one diet has been around for 90 years and has been proven to significantly reduce body fat while keeping you healthy. This is called the Ketogenic Diet.

The Ketogenic Diet is basically a low-carb diet wherein carbohydrate consumption is drastically reduced and is often used for the treatment of diabetes and obesity. The Ketogenic Diet, otherwise known as "Keto Diet", is a way of eating which emphasizes a very low carbohydrate intake and high fat intake, with a low to moderate protein intake. The ideal daily dietary ratio is made up of 5% carbohydrates, 15% protein and 80% fat. Foods that are allowed are meat, fish, eggs, shellfish, nuts, cheese, and seeds. Most vegetables are also allowed while fruits are limited because of their high sugar content.

The carbohydrate-fat-protein ratio in the Ketogenic Diet is sufficient to cause ketosis, which is the mechanism behind this eating pattern and has been proven to improve the conditions of epileptic children.

The Keto Diet was founded on the basis that it benefits patients suffering with epilepsy and has been used as a treatment since 1929. The anti-inflammatory characteristics of the Keto Diet, combined with the effect it has on the brain, help to reduce the amount of seizures epilepsy sufferers have. The swelling around the brain is generally minimized and therefore is beneficial when reducing seizures. Some people experiencing less severity with their seizures have been able to diminish them completely. The theory behind the reduction of seizures also comes down to the foods that are eliminated from the Keto Diet which have a detrimental effect on epilepsy sufferers. Foods that cause energy highs and lows, such as bread, pasta, sugar and many high carbohydrate foods have been shown to worsen the symptoms of epilepsy. Cutting these foods out of the diet has shown to have immense benefits.

Ketogenic diets are prescribed to children suffering epilepsy more often than adults, and the requirement for the diet to be supervised by a dietician and epilepsy specialist causes concern for people who believe that using the diet for weight loss purposes isn't safe. While no evidence has been found to support this, it is recommended that you approach the diet with caution and sufficient knowledge.

The Ketogenic Diet is a low-carbohydrate eating system. It aims to lower the amount of carbohydrates you consume while you increase consumption of both fat and protein. To put it simply, this low-carbohydrate diet allows you to eat a cheeseburger, but only if you discard the bun. The burger patty and cheese contain protein and fat, while the bread contains carbohydrates. You can liberally eat protein and fat-rich foods but you need to drastically limit intake of carbohydrates.

Ketogenic Diet experts advocate argue that this diet, like the Paleolithic diet, is closer to the diet of humans 15 thousand years ago, before the dawn of agriculture. They say that humans are adapted genetically to diets that are low in carbohydrates because food rich in it were scarce during those ancient times.

There is an evident when the Paleolithic lifestyles are compared to modern day hunter-gatherers. Because of the greater availability of animal meat and the scarcity of food crops, their diets are composed of a lower amount of carbohydrates (around 22 to 40 percent). And in areas where plant availability dominates, the consumption of carbohydrates remains relatively low because wild plants contain much lower carbohydrate and higher fiber content than crops that are grown domestically. If human beings have been living like that for tens of thousands of years, our bodies are more adapted to consuming more fats and protein than carbohydrates.

Some medical experts have warned against what may be the adverse effects of going through the Ketogenic Diet program in long term partly because of the consumption of fat and high amounts of protein. Concerns ranging from cardiovascular diseases to abnormal metabolism and kidney problems have come up because of the popularity of the Ketogenic Diet system. Surprisingly though, after some medical research studies, results show that there is no big difference between the health status of those who follow the Ketogenic Diet program as compared to those who follow the USDA.