122 Comments With more people enthusiastic about the ketogenic diet comes more talk about potential adverse side effects. Upon closer examination, almost all of the complaints can be traced to a flawed approach. Granted, if you are coming to the game with significant metabolic damage from decades of carbohydrate dependency, or not paying attention to … Read more
Trying to define the carbs on nutrition facts labels can be thoroughly difficult to understand. There’s a figure for total carbs but also subheadings for dietary fiber, sugars, and sometimes sugar alcohols. You may have heard questions people ask such as, “how many carbs should you eat daily?” and “should you count net carbs or … Read more
While fat is a key element in the LCHF diet, how much can you really eat? On this episode of the LCHF Podcast, Dr. Gary Fettke talks fat. How much fat can you add to your diet? Are people eating too much fat on the LCHF? And should you be looking at high or healthy … Read more
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Are you completely overwhelmed by information about low carb or ketogenic diets? Is your neck about to snap from the multiple times you’ve gotten whiplash from trying to follow an endless onslaught of contradictory advice on reduced carb ways of eating? If your life revolves around weighing and measuring your food, tracking your heart rate, … Read more
How many of these biggest lies of mainstream nutrition do you still believe? Sadly, they are still being reported by those who haven’t caught up with the science yet. The Top 11 Biggest Lies Of Mainstream Nutrition, originally written by Kris Gunnars on Authority Nutrition, has to be one of the best articles around. It … Read more
You may have heard a lot about type 2 diabetes – but do you know what it actually does to your body? In this video series, we’ll explore the causes of type 2 diabetes and how to reverse it. How does food affect the blood sugar? 1: How does food affect blood sugar? What happens … Read more
50 Comments Keto may not be for everyone, and low-carb is not the only way to eat well, but most would agree that people in the modern world tend to eat way too many carbohydrates—far more than their lifestyles and activity levels warrant. Along with some other big factors, excessive intake of refined carbohydrates is … Read more
A low carb helps reduce blood sugars and insulin levels and helps improve common metabolic diseases (e.g. diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s). We become insulin resistant when our adipose tissue becomes full and can’t store any more energy. Excess energy is then stored in the liver, pancreas, heart, brain and other organs … Read more
You may have noticed that the latest diet to gain popularity is the Keto Diet. Butter in your coffee, bacon EVERYTHING, what’s not to like? And just like its predecessors (South Beach, Atkins, Paleo), the claims on immediate weight loss are astonishing and many people are hopping on the bandwagon without any real foresight. We’ve … Read more