Ketosis

your body to convert and use as energy, it is used as your body's primary source of energy. However, when you greatly lower your intake of carbohydrates and significantly increase your intake of fat, your body is put into a state known as 'ketosis'. Ketosis is the process your body initiates to help you survive when food intake is low. This has helped the human species to survive during times when food was not readily abundant. When you follow a ketogenic diet over a certain period of…

ketogenic diet. The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat, and medium protein diet. When you stick to a ketogenic diet, you will consume low-carbs and high healthy fat foods. Under the ketogenic diet, your body will enter the metabolic state of ketosis. While in ketosis, your liver will produce ketones to charge your brains and muscles, rather than using glucose. When you use glucose as your chief fuel source, you can gain weight and feel fatigued most of the time. Luckily for you, this book is…

The Atkins’ diet has helped many in weight loss and has been known to increase an individual’s health benefits. The basis of this particular diet insures that if one lowers their daily carbohydrate intake, it will, in turn, increase metabolism and body efficiency. This diet causes the body to use adipose tissue, or fat, for energy instead of the alternative, which is glucose, the hormone produced by carbohydrates. A person can experience weight loss steadily when the dieter follows through with…

and eggs. In plus, salad vegetables, butter and vegetable oils are also allowed in the diet. However, alcohol is banned and even caffeine is only permitted in moderation. This phase of the Atkins diet is intended to make the body rapidly go into a ketosis state and consequently, the most significant measure of weight loss can be seen in this period. The other three phases of the Atkins diet such as ongoing weight loss, pre maintenance and lifetime maintenance takes on methods to gradually…

boredom with rigid version of the low-carb diet plan and aren't able to remain on diet programs associated with reduced carbohydrate food. After watching the subject, a far more serious and controlled research are essential on the long-term basis. The ketosis created is abnormal and leads to a stressful metabolic condition. The outcomes could cause many more problems than it solved. Through selecting a dependable diet plan you'll benefit over a lifetime of eating correctly and not experiencing…

Many dieting fads that are currently coming out on ways to cut certain foods or take a certain pill to lose large amount of weight in a short amount of time which is what we are all hoping for. We see the ads “Get Your Beach Bod in Under 6 Weeks” which excites some to jump into buying some sort of exotic fruit extract that will have you running to the bathroom 8 times a day. But, you will do whatever you can to lose the pounds that have been weighing you down for years. The Keto Diet is the new…

Glucose-1 (GLUT-1) deficiency syndrome is an inborn error of metabolism caused by a mutation of the SLC2A1 gene (1). The resulting dysfunctional GLUT-1 protein causes inadequate amounts of glucose to be transported to the brain and results in neurologic disorders such as childhood intractable epilepsy (1). Although introduced nearly a century ago, the ketogenic diet has gained increasing popularity within the last decade to treat epileptic seizures, especially when minimal or no improvement is…

lack of oxygen, would result in a negative impact on the individual’s body. Essentially, the K-E diet put the body in a state of ketosis, meaning that it is, “burning fat instead of carbohydrates” (Walton, 2012). Essentially, the body enters the first phases of starvation through this diet. When an average person’s calories are cut drastically, and the body goes into ketosis, “The body starts to burn stored fat rather than consuming sugar to keep normal bodily functions going” (Park, 2012). Once…

There are benefits to both High Fat Diets and High Carb Diets, they both give you the required nutrients, and they both, if used properly, can help you lose weight, gain muscle, or maintain a healthy lifestyle. But overall, which one is better? High Carb diets include a high sugar content and require eating a lot more food. Whereas High Fat Diets require a lot less food, but a lot more satiety. The media puts a lot of emphasis on High Fat Diets and the Atkins diet and has a lot of celebrities…

Carbohydrates are not bad for you, all you need to do is make sure you are eating the RIGHT carbohydrates and you will feel better, reduce the risk of disease and lose weight. It's all a question of eating the RIGHT carbohydrates; let's see the difference and the importance of carbohydrates for normal body functions. Carbohydrates are not all bad just as all fats and some proteins are healthier than others. Carbohydrates what they do Carbohydrates are the primary fuel source for many of the…