Category: Blog
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D’Marge Magazine marginalizes followers of low carb and keto diets
Passing off people who are on a low carb diet as cultists who ignore science is not a good way to put forth your argument. Especially since there is now a great deal of science behind the benefits of going low carb. While a diet high in full-fat dairy, butter, ghee and coconut oil can…
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Possible negative effects of intermittent fasting
Let’s start with the fact that everyone fasts. You can’t help it. You fast whenever you sleep. Whether it’s 4, 6, 8, or 10 hours a day the time you’re sleeping you are not eating… unless you’re hooked up to an IV. Intermittent fasting refers to not eating for longer periods of time than just…
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Possible benefits for Alzheimer’s Disease on a low carb diet
I’ve read this in several places now in both books and articles and hopefully it’s a promising way to treat the Alzheimer’s Disease. The basic idea is that the brains of people with Alzheimer’s can’t metabolize glucose and people on a low carb or keto diet rely on metabolizing ketones rather than glucose. Therefore, their…
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Nutritionist explains why you may not be losing weight on the Keto Diet
The sound advice given by the nutritionist in this article can be summed up by the idea of watch your macros and your calories. While we now know weight loss and gain is not as simple as calories in/calories out it is true that calories still do have impact. If you’re consuming too many you…
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Health benefits of Monk Fruit
I only recently discovered this sweetener while trying to develop a good keto peanut butter cookie. Hint: I haven’t developed one I like yet. Not because of flavor but because of crunch. I can’t quite get a good cookie crunch in a keto cookie. But that’s beside the point. I was very happy to find…
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Pseudo celebs lose a lot of weight on the keto diet
I don’t know who these people are but if reality show people can lose all that weight than so can you. They lost 107 lbs. between the two of them. Briana Culberson, daughter of The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Vicki Gunvalson, and her husband Ryan have been keto super-fans for a while now. The…
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What exactly happens when you’re in ketosis?
I don’t think I ever experienced any of the so-called negative side effects of going into ketosis. Maybe it’s because my conversion to living this way was more gradual over the course of years. I wish I knew what I was doing a couple decades ago. Then I could have measured it all and had…
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Here’s what happens when you stop eating sugar
You probably already know the answer. But, I think it probably needs to be repeated until we stop thinking about diet in the traditional way. Giving up the sweet stuff is challenging since it’s found in unsuspecting places, like veggie burgers, tomato sauce, and crackers. But if you do nix added sugars from your diet,…
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Keto diet may be good for your mental health
This article talks about how going keto can improve your mental health but not in a superficial way. It doesn’t talk about the satisfaction you get from slimming down but instead talks about the biological effects excess glucose can have on your brain. Good information here. For people with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, psychotic…