Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: 100 Simple Recipe for Rapid Weight Loss and Better Health

By Jessica Diaz

Ketogenic diet is a dietary therapy that is based on high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. It is a powerful metabolic tool that helps your body switch from burning sugar (carbohydrate) to burning fat. Greater carb intake results in rising blood sugar and insulin, a pancreatic hormone that manages blood sugar. Going keto replaces dietary carb with fat and protein. Over time, your cells switch metabolic pathways, and burn stored and dietary fat as a primary energy source instead of sugar. As more fat is burned, some of it is converted into ketone bodies. As blood glucose and insulin levels fall, and ketone levels rise, your muscles (skeletal and heart), use the fats in the bloodstream as fuel, while your brain uses the ketones. The result is more energy, clearer thinking and better health.
Intense research has shown that ketogenic diet can perform the following;
To fight cancer, treat and reverse all kind of Insulin Resistance,
Treat or reverses all kind of Heart disease
Treatment of Autism
It slows the progression of Neurological disorders such as ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease
It can improve metabolic energy disorders such as pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDHC), glucose transporter type 1 (GLUT1) deficiency
It improves glycogen storage diseases such as McArdle disease,
It improves a range of mitochondrial myopathies.
It slows down the progression of the aging rate in human
It gives a relief on Acid Reflux/GERD (heartburn)
This Ketogenic Diet cookbook has been specially designed to help you attain Ketosis in no time just to attain a healthier and diseases free lifestyle. It contains 100 simple and delicious recipes and a step by step guide on how to prepare them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jun 30, 2018

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Introduction

Ketones are produced in the liver to be used as energy; this is the essence of the ketogenic diet. The Ketogenic (keto) diet also known as a low carb diet. Insulin and Glucose are produced when a carbohydrate filled diet is consumed your body has several energy source options, but the body easily absorbs glucose for use as energy. This is made possible insulin which takes the glucose around your body in the blood stream. We have been told the primary source of energy for our bodies is sugar. However, there is a more systematic source of fuel that is rarely utilized.

When the body break down fat it produces ketones, which are then used by cells to authorize their normal functions. Therefore, Ketosis is the metabolic state of having ketones in the blood. Furthermore, Ketosis is the breakdown process of using fat as the main source of energy instead of carbohydrates. This means your body is directly breaking down its fat stores as energy instead of slowly converting fat and muscle cells into glucose for energy. You enter ketosis when your body doesn’t have enough glucose (carbohydrates) available. The reason for a ketogenic diet is to eat in such a way that it tempts your body into ketosis. When you reduce the intake of carbs, the body is induced into a state known as ketosis. The end goal of a properly maintained keto diet is to force your body into this metabolic state, this is archived through the starvation of calories but starvation of carbohydrates.

Types of Ketogenic Diet

Standard Ketogenic Diet (SKD): This is the classic keto diet that everyone knows and does.

Targeted Ketogenic Diet (TKD): This is a variation where you eat standard ketogenic diet (SKD) but take in a small amount of fast-digesting carbs before a workout.

Cyclical Ketogenic Diet (CKD): This is a variation of keto for body builders and contest goers, generally giving one day a week to carb up and resupplies glycogen stores. For those that work out extremely, a TKD or CKD may be for you.

Ketosis works in the following ways;

Eliminating Carbs: When the intake of carbs has been drastically reduced, there is insufficient level of glucose which leads to the depletion of glycogen level in the blood, insulin and blood sugars also are decreased, this forces the body to look for an alternative means of energy thereby converting the fats stored in the body into energy.

Break down Fats: Beta-oxidation is the process through which the body breaks down fats in the body. The fat that has been broken down is then moved around the body through the secretion of ketones to the blood stream. The ketones which float around in your blood provide energy to the body and brain. The ketogenic diet is an approach to eating that is high fat, moderate protein and low carbohydrate. This is postulated to stimulate the body into ketosis. The types and quality of foods are very important for constructing a nourishing ketogenic diet.

Benefits of A Ketogenic Diet

Reduction of weight: On a ketogenic diet, the fat storing hormone level drops greatly because the ketogenic diet uses the fats in your body as energy source turning your body into a fat burning machine. Through this process, it is obvious that there is a weight loss due to the burning of the fats in the body. It has been scientifically proven that the ketogenic diet produces a better a result when compared to the low-fat and high-carb diets in all aspect.

Blood Sugar level control: It has been shown through studies that ketogenic diet is a more operational way to prevent and manage diabetes. Due to the type of foods you eat, Ketogenic diet spontaneously lowers blood sugar levels. You should seriously consider a ketogenic diet if you’re pre-diabetic or have Type II diabetes.

Mental Alertness: It has been shown through studies that an increased intake of fatty acids can have impacting benefits to our brain’s function. ketogenic diet can specifically be used for the increased mental performance. Ketones are a great source of fuel for the brain. When you lower carb intake, you avoid big spikes in blood sugar. Together, this can result in improved alertness and concentration.

Normalized hunger and high Energy: when you give your body a better and more reliable energy source, you will feel energized during the day to perform your daily activities. Fats are shown to be the most effective molecule to burn as fuel.

Treatment of Epilepsy: The body uses glucose from carbohydrates for its energy source. Chemicals called ketones are made when the body uses fat for energy. The body uses ketones instead of glucose for its energy source. In 2015, research has shown that another chemical, decanoic acid, is also produced as a result of ketogenic diet. These chemicals help to reduce seizures which cause epilepsy for some people.

Cholesterol & Blood Pressure: The ketogenic diet has shown to improve triglyceride levels and cholesterol levels most associated with arterial buildup. Studies on low-carb diets also show better improvement in blood pressure when compared to other diets. Excess weight is usually associated with blood pressure, therefore; since ketogenic diets turns your body into a fat burning machine which leads to weight loss, it simply means that keto diets are used to control the level of blood pressure in the body.

Treatment of Resistance to Insulin:Insulin allow cells of the body to take in glucose to be used as fuel for the body, when the cells of the body don't respond promptly to the insulin hormone, then we have a case called Insulin resistance. The Insulin resistance leads to type II diabetes and this can be reduced or reversed through ketogenic diets. This is made possible because ketogenic diet burns the fats and glucose stored in the body and convert them to fuel to be used as energy by the body.

Treatment of Acne:Acne