High blood pressure is one of those health topics that comes up constantly when people ask me about keto. And I get it - if you have been told to watch your salt, eat less fat, and follow something like the DASH diet, a high-fat diet that tells you to add sodium sounds like it's heading in exactly the wrong direction. I've been running Ruled Me since 2013, and this is easily one of the top five questions I hear from readers who want to try keto but are nervous about their cardiovascular ...
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Can a Low Carb Diet Lower Blood Pressure?
- August 22, 2017
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Top 10 Foods for the Ketogenic Diet
Decades of research indicates that high-fat, low-carb keto-friendly foods, the very foods we once thought were destroying our health, may be doing just the opposite. Studies upon studies on the ketogenic diet have been discovering benefits for people with all types of conditions, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, epilepsy, and Alzheimer’s disease. How could a diet filled with so much cholesterol and fat be so good for us? Because many of the foods that we once thought were ...
- December 10, 2017
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10 Keto Cake Recipes to Crush Your Sugar Cravings
I've been doing keto long enough to have tested every dessert approach out there, and the one thing that trips people up more than anything else is the dessert question. Not 'can I have dessert?'. You can. The real question is whether keto desserts are any good. After a decade of failed experiments and some genuine wins, my honest answer is: the cake recipes are where keto baking actually delivers. The Keto Chocolate Roll Cake is one I come back to when I want something that looks like real ...
- August 1, 2026
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Are Pork Rinds Keto? The Many Benefits Of This Zero Carb Snack
Yes, pork rinds are keto-friendly and used widely by people on low-carb diets. That said, it’s still easy to be fooled into thinking that this humble keto snack food is unhealthy. Though they are crisp like chips (and are typically found in the same grocery store aisle), pork rinds share very little else in common with those high-carb options. In fact, unflavored pork rinds are one of the few zero-carb snacks you can eat on the ketogenic diet. Plus, they can be used as a keto substitute ...
- November 18, 2020
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Intermittent Fasting on a Keto Diet
Intermittent Fasting, or “IF,” is a relatively new craze that can easily be incorporated into any diet. It revolves around timing your food intake in a way that can help improve overall health and boost long-term weight loss results. Keto dieters often add intermittent fasting regimens to their keto meal plan for the unique benefits of fasting. It can also be used as a weight loss plateau busting strategy or a quick hack for entering ketosis. That said, questions still remain regarding how ...
- November 14, 2013
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Keto Popcorn: How to Make It Keto-friendly and Other Low-carb Alternatives
Corn and keto don’t work well together. Whether it is categorized as a grain or a starchy vegetable, you’ll find corn in the “Do Not Eat” category of any keto diet food list. This is because each cup of corn is packed with over 35 grams of net carbs. That is enough to keep most of us from ketosis! That said, there is a simple trick we can use to convert ketosis-disrupting corn into a satisfying keto-friendly serving of popcorn: Add heat. If you are looking to indulge in this popular ...
- April 14, 2021
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The 15 Best Keto Pasta Recipes
Pasta is so versatile that you can have it with almost anything, and it will make the meal better. It's subtle taste and soft texture give it the ability to pair different cuisines from all over the world. But, there is one crucial caveat to mention. The most popular pasta varieties are so carb-dense that they should not be eaten on the low-carb diet and ketogenic diet. However, this doesn't mean that you can't have your favorite pasta recipes when you are cutting carbs. There are plenty ...
- January 21, 2018
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10 Beefy Keto Recipes: Low-Carb Beef Meals
Beef is probably the protein I've leaned on most over the past decade-plus of eating keto. It's not just that it fits the macros, it's that beef actually holds up to the cooking you want to do. High heat, long braises, quick skillets. It handles all of it. I've gone through phases with chicken, pork, fish. But when I need something that fills me up and keeps me full for hours, beef is where I land. There's a reason keto and beef go together so well: the fat content lines up with what a low-carb ...
- May 2, 2026
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Keto & Weight Loss
One of the most common reasons people start a ketogenic diet or simply cut carbohydrates is to lose weight. But does the hard, scientific evidence say? Additionally, does a low-carb diet just get rid of the water weight- or does it shed body fat and maintain lean mass? In this piece we analyze if eating more fat really makes you less fat. The Key Figures in Body Weight Everyone is always talking about “losing weight”- but what are the exactly referring to? Human body weight refers to ...
- June 22, 2016
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10 Easy Keto Dinner Meals for Busy Weeknights
I started keto back in 2014, and I've gotten pretty good at figuring out which dinners actually happen on a Tuesday night versus which ones I'm kidding myself about. The reality is that most weeknights I've got about 30 minutes, questionable motivation, and whatever's in the fridge. That's the whole constraint. And I've learned that the recipes I actually cook on those nights have a few things in common: minimal cleanup, reliable results, and enough fat and protein that I'm not hungry two hours ...
- May 23, 2026
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