The keto diet (also known as a ketogenic diet, low carb diet and LCHF diet) is a low carbohydrate, high-fat diet. Maintaining a low carb diet is great for weight loss. Moreover, according to an increasing number of studies, a low carb diet helps reduce risk factors for diabetes, heart diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, and more!
WHY REDUCE CARBS ON A KETO DIET?
We’re beginning to understand that carbs in large quantities are more harmful than previously thought, while most fats are healthy & essential (the basis of a low carb diet).
When you eat lots of carbs, your blood sugar is consistently elevated and, as a result, so is insulin. Insulin is a hormone that keeps your blood sugar in check by shuttling the glucose into cells, but when there’s a consistently high amount of insulin, your cells become resistant.
This insulin resistance makes it easier to store fat, and chronically high levels of insulin also cause excessive inflammation in the body, which contributes to heart disease, high blood pressure and eventually type 2 diabetes.
A keto diet can reverse these harmful effects & restores insulin sensitivity.
THE KETO DIET IS A NUTRITION REVOLUTION!
The nutritional landscape is changing. The keto diet (low carb diet) is growing in acceptance and a nutritional revolution is beginning. We are starting to realize the detrimental effects of our relationship with excess sugar & carbs.
The keto diet focuses on low carb recipes to keep your blood sugar stable, helping your body regain insulin sensitivity and keeping your mood & energy levels stable.
When you’re on a ketogenic diet, you can expect to:
• Lose body fat
• Have consistent energy levels during the day
• Stay satiated after meals longer, with less snacking and overeating
HUNDREDS OF LOW CARB DIET & KETO RECIPES!
Keto recipes make you feel better, live better and eat better. Each low carb recipe is delicious – we know because we only share the ones we love.
We’ve included hundreds of low carb recipes for you to choose from. The main goal of these low carb recipes is to:
• Keep carbs low – under 25g a day, ideally
• Increase your protein intake – aim for at least 60g a day
• Keep you full and satiated from delicious meals
There are numerous benefits that come with being on keto: from weight loss and increased energy levels to therapeutic medical applications such as Diabetes, Seizures, PCOs etc
A keto diet is well known for being a low carb diet, where the body produces ketones in the liver to be used as energy.
When you eat something high in carbs, your body will produce glucose and insulin.
--->Glucose is the easiest molecule for your body to convert and use as energy so that it will be chosen over any other energy source.
--->Insulin is produced to process the glucose in your bloodstream by taking it around the body.
Since the glucose is being used as a primary energy, your fats are not needed and are therefore stored causing weight gain and other co-morbidities.
Typically on a normal, higher carbohydrate diet, the body will use glucose as the main form of energy. However, by lowering the intake of carbs, the body, in an attempt to generate glucose, is forced to use the fat stores of the body, therefore, inducing a body state known as ketosis.
Features of this App:
✔Things to know before starting keto dieting
✔More than 200+ keto recipes
✔ Sample Ketogenic Diet Menu
✔ Exercise and Keto Dieting: Do You Need To Exercise on Keto Diet?
✔ Easy and Delicious Keto Snacks for Ketogenic Dieters
✔ Health Benefits and possible side-effects
✔ Common avoidable side effects
✔ Free Keto Macro calculator
✔ Free standard BMI calculator
