Starting the ketogenic diet can be overwhelming. The keto beginner is often bombarded by conflicting information regarding the “right” way to follow the diet and enter ketosis. Though experts may not agree on the exact details of a “perfect” keto diet, there are several low-carb food groups that are widely accepted as healthy keto staples. To give you a visual representation of what these foods are, we decided to create a keto-friendly food pyramid for you. This keto food pyramid will look ...
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The Keto Food Pyramid: Low Carb Food List Made Simple
- April 19, 2021
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Eating Keto on a Budget
Keto dieting doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, it is possible to cut out all those cheap processed foods and replace them with healthy, keto-friendly options without seeing a substantial increase in your food expenses. Although you won’t be able to beat the prices on cookies, cakes, chips, noodles, rice, and beans with keto foods, you can still eat keto on a budget for just around $2 per meal. All you have to do is implement a few of these budgeting techniques and strategies: Follow ...
- January 9, 2014
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Zero Carb Food List that Keeps Keto and Ketosis Simple
Keeping carbohydrate intake low is the key to keto diet success. When carb intake is too high, we simply cannot enter ketosis and experience the unique benefits of keto. However, this doesn’t mean that you have to rigidly track your carbohydrate intake at all times. In fact, many keto dieters are able to stay in ketosis by using one simple strategy: Eating mostly keto-friendly foods that have little to no net carbs (i.e., digestible carbs that reduce ketone production). Although it may ...
- March 5, 2019
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How to Lose Weight on a Ketogenic Diet
There are many ways to lose weight, and following the ketogenic diet is one of them. In fact, keto is one of the most effective ways to lose weight rapidly and keep the fat off for good. This doesn't mean, that a high-fat, low-carb diet is ideal for everyone that is aiming for weight loss. Some people may fare better with other dietary choices that fit more snuggly into their current lifestyles. Either way, it is possible for you to lose weight and keep it off. In this article, we will ...
- February 2, 2018
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The Ketogenic Diet and Insulin Resistance
We recently touched on how you can use the ketogenic diet to control symptoms of diabetes such as elevated glucose and triglycerides. In this article, we examine research showing the impact that the ketogenic diet has on levels of the hormone insulin, a key regulator of blood sugar in the body. What is Insulin’s Role in the Body? Before we look at the research, we need to know our main players. Insulin is a protein-based hormone produced by beta-cells located in the pancreas. The ...
- October 5, 2015
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Macadamia Nuts: The Healthiest Nut for a Keto Diet?
Nut consumption has been found to improve our health in a variety of ways, including: helping with weight loss enhancing skin health protecting us from heart disease and cancer improving blood pressure reducing cholesterol, blood glucose, and HbA1c levels decreasing our risk of early mortality However, when it comes to choosing the healthiest nut of them all, there is no clear winner. Each one has a slight edge over the others in varying aspects (depending on the ...
- July 7, 2018
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Keto Bacon Burger Bombs
Up your fat intake with these delicious burger bombs. Cheese stuffed inside sausage and wrapped in bacon! Dip them in your favorite sugar-free condiments and it tastes like it’s straight out of a take out window. The best thing about these burger bombs are that they only require 3 main ingredients. I used raw sausage rounds for this recipe, but if you can’t find them, you can always take the skin off breakfast sausages and use the raw meat, after flattening them into small circles. While ...
- July 25, 2017
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Foods to Avoid on a Ketogenic Diet: What is Keto-friendly?
“Is this keto-friendly?” “Can I eat this on keto?” Questions like these are asked on keto diet forums and Facebook groups multiple times a day without a definitive answer. The line between what we should eat and avoid to sustain ketosis gets blurred after we cut out the obvious high-carb foods. To truly figure out what is keto-friendly and what we shouldn’t eat on keto, we must have: (1) a general understanding of foods that are keto-friendly and foods that will almost always kick us ...
- October 14, 2018
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What Is the Best Triglyceride Lowering Diet?
You (or a loved one) probably have high triglycerides. This sounds like the beginning of a drug commercial, but it’s true. Over 30% of the adult United States population has triglyceride levels that are equal to or above 150 mg/dL. In other words, about 1 in every 3 people has above normal triglyceride levels. So, what does this mean exactly? What should you do if your doctor says that you have “high triglycerides”? Let’s take a closer look at these crucial questions and help you find ...
- October 11, 2017
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Are Exogenous Ketone Supplements Worth It? The Pros and Cons of Ketone Salts and Esters
With the increasing popularity of the keto diet, supplement companies are flooding the shelves with keto supplements. The most convincing supplement of them all — from a marketing perspective — is exogenous ketones. These keto supplements promise that you can have your cake and eat it too, literally and metaphorically. How? By giving you the ability to experience the benefits of the keto diet without having to limit your carb intake. After looking at typical keto weight loss results and ...
- June 26, 2019
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