Tag: ketosis
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Do you need to count calories on keto?
Losing weight is essentially an energy shift in your body, instead of consuming more calories than your body is burning, you are shifting this to burning more calories than you are consuming. But on a ketogenic or general lowcarb diet counting carbs isn’t that much recommended. Let’s find out why! When on a lowcarb diet…
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Is keto dangerous for kids?
There is not much scinece-based knowledge on children following a ketogenic diet, most physicians would not want children on such a restrictive diet to prevent them from eating disorders. But this doesn’t mean that the diet doesn’t work as good for children as it does for adults. From experiences from James SIdbury Jr’s work in…
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Must read keto books
The case for keto- Gary Taubes A book based on research and lots of interviews with practising physicians who embrace a ketogenic lifestyle. Taubes reveals why the guidelines to eating healthy might bet he wrong approach to weigtloss for most people and how ketogenic diets can help many people achieve a healthy weight for the…
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What are Ketostix?
Ketostix are strips provided for a fast way of testing urine fort he presence and concentration of acetoacetic acid (ketones) in your urine. These stix are mostly used by people suffering from diabetes type 1 (sometimes even type 2) to check if their ketone levels are okay and not dangerously high. Ketones appear when not…
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Do keto-sweeteners kick you out of ketosis?
When your body is keto-adapted and thus in Ketosis, a so-called metabolic state in which your body doesn’t rely on carbs and sugar as the main energy-sources but on ketones, which are produced from fats, it can get kicked out of ketosis by consuming sugars. So that’s why a lot of keto and low-carb recipes…
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