Keto Resources

Introductions

• Fat Head – the full movie – Tom Naughton explores the fallout of Super Size Me and provides interviews with doctors, nutritionists and others to drive home his thesis that most of what we know about “healthy eating” is wrong. He posted a follow up as well.
• The Food Revolution – AHS 2011 – Good introduction that explains why carbohydrates are bad for you, and fat is good. From Dr. Eenfeldt who has gathered quite a following for LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) in Sweden.
• Dr. Westman introduces the keto diet at the Duke University Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. – Westman explains the ketogenic diet to his patients and how to incorporate it into their lives.

On Sugar

• Sugar: The Bitter Truth – Dr. Lustig “The Skinny on Obesity“. Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.
• Specialty Health – SUGAR – Could be the primary cause of insulin resistance and why people get fat! – An Interview with Thomas Dayspring M.D., author of the “Lipid Newsletter” and Gary Taubes, author of “Why We Get Fat” and “Good Calories, Bad Calories”. They discuss the real cause for atherosclerosis.
• Less sugar, more kids – Michael D. Fox, physician and expert in fertility, about how you could get pregnant more easily on a high fat diet. And how his patients react to that advice. He focuses on PCOS
• The Trouble with Fructose: a Darwinian Perspective by Robert Lustig, MD – Robert Lustig’s talks about the reason for the obesity epidemic. There is a reddit discussion about the video, where user moozilla has extracted the slides.

On Obesity

• The Cause of Obesity – Robert H. Lustig is a medical doctor, researcher and expert on obesity. In this video he explains why insulin is driving the obesity epidemic.
• Why We Get Fat – Gary Taubes spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on May 2, 2011 about his book Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.
• How Bad Science and Big Business Created the Obesity Epidemic – David Diamond, Ph.D., of the University of South Florida College of Arts and Sciences shares his personal story about his battle with obesity. Diamond shows how he lost weight and reduced his triglycerides by eating red meat, eggs and butter.
• The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?) – January 17, 2008 presentation by Christopher Gardner for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series. He compares diets types and weight loss strategies.

Other Health Effects

• Dr. Terry Wahls – Minding Your Mitochondria – Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her wheelchair.
• How to Cure Type 2 Diabetes – Jay Wortman, MD, tells the story of how he got rid of his rampant type 2 diabetes using a simple dietary change. Eight years later he is still free from the disease and needs no medication. Basically he stopped eating the foods that turn to sugar in the gut. Jay discusses use of ketogenic diets for children and pregnant women with no ill effects.
• Why We All Don’t Get Cancer — Sloan-Kettering – Craig B. Thompson, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses new ways to think about cancer and how cancer arises in human beings.

More Scientific Background

• Low Carb Explained – Dr. Mary Vernon, MD, is one of the world’s foremost experts on treating obesity and diabetes with low carbohydrate nutrition. “The job of insulin is to stop fat burning and enhance fat storage”.
• Loren Cordain – Origins and Evolution of the Western Diet: Health Implications for the 21st Century. – Dr. Cordain is a Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His research emphasis over the past 15 years has focused upon the evolutionary and anthropological basis for diet, health and well being in modern humans.
• Robb Wolf talks about how evolutionary science saved his life. – Steve talks to Paleo Guru and Author of New York Times Best Selling Title “The Paleo Solution” Robb Wolf about how evolutionary science saved his life and paleolithic nutrition. Robb discusses anecdotal data of how the Paleo Diet has resulted in remission of symptoms in several cases of autoimmune patients and how it’s helped improve the performance of athletes around the globe.
• The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf – Brief introduction asking the question “Does the paleo concept ‘work’”? If so, how and for whom? Clinical examples of nutrition, exercise and lifestyle interventions. Discussion of memes and complex human systems. Why the Paleo concept is not a fad.
• Low Carb Living – Dr Stephen Phinney, MD, PhD, knows more about this than almost anybody. He has researched adaptation to very low carb diets (and exercise) for a long time. Here he shares this knowledge, as well as insights from traditional cultures (including Inuits) who never ever ate a lot of carbs.
• The Science of Low Carb – Do you want to improve your health and weight by eating real food? After 150 years of on-off popularity, low carb diets are finally getting the scientific support they need to be taken seriously. – An interview with Dr Eric Westman – A co-author of “A New Atkins for a New You”.
• How Your Blood Panel Values Respond to a Ketogenic Diet – Even though we know lipid panels do not correlate well with cardiovascular disease, many newbies often find the initial increase in bad numbers concerning. Dr. Volek talks about how significant weight loss basically make lipid panels useless.

Web Resources

• AreYouReadyToReddit’s 1-Week Meal Plan – A Guide to plan your meals up to a week in advance.
• Myfitnesspal.com (MFP) – Meal and health tracker
• Keto MFP Setup – Set up MFP for use with a ketogenic approach
• LCHF Outline – Eenfeldt’s personal website and the outline about LCHF
• Acceptable Foods and Carb Counts – Acceptable food list with carb counts
• My Fitness Pal Script – Surye’s script that tracks net carbs along with macro-nutrients
• Keto Lifestyle FAQ – Bodybuilding.com’s Megathread on the Keto Lifestyle
• AreYouReadyToReddit’s Meal Plan – A Guide to plan your meals up to a week in advance.
• /r/ketorecipes – The official subreddit for keto recipes
• thelowcarbrecipes.com – Redditor Anuulius’ excellent collection of meal recipes
• Recipe Index – Bodybuilding’s Index of Low Carb Recipes
• Importance of Water – Why drink so much? Why is it hard to keep on Keto?
• Wolfram Alpha – Simple database to look at food and convert measurements.
• Examine.com – in-depth information on supplements
• What Will I Look Like – See what other people look like at your goal weight.

Recommended Reading

• The New Atkins for a New You, Westman, Phinney, Volek, ISBN 978-0091935573
• The Ketogenic Diet, Lyle McDonald, ISBN 978-0967145600
• The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living, Stephen D. Phinney, Jeff S. Volek, ISBN 978-0983490708
• Why We Get Fat, Gary Taubes, ISBN 978-0307272706
• Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes, ISBN 978-1400033461
• The Paleo Diet, Loren Cordain, ISBN 978-0470913024
• The Paleo Solution, Robb Wolf, ISBN 978-0982565841
• The Primal Blueprint, Mark Sisson, ISBN 978-0982207703
• Wheat Belly, William David, ISBN 978-1609611545