Our bodies can use glucose or ketones for energy. We are going to discuss why a ketogenic diet will vastly improve your health over diets full of sugar and carbohydrates. So, a ketogenic diet can help cure several health complaints:

You will find all the foods listed in this guide are all beneficial, whether you chose Paleo, Keto, Atkins, Low-carb High-fat and other diets based around the same principles.

What Is A Keto?

The ketogenic diet (aka keto diet) is a low-carb, high-fat diet that offers many health benefits. As a matter of fact, over 20 studies show this diet can help you lose weight and improve your health.

It involves drastically reducing carbohydrate intake and replacing it with fat. As a result, this reduction in carbs puts your body into a metabolic state called ketosis.

Why Ketogenic Diet?

It is important to note that when our bodies burn glucose for energy, it is not as clean a fuel source as fat. I will release insulin when our blood sugar spikes, converting sugar into glycogen so that our bodies can use it for energy and store any excess in our liver, muscles and fat cells.

Become A Fat-Burning Machine

Whilst we are eating carbohydrates and sugar, our body will be in a fat storage mode and will break down and use our body fat for fuel. That is where ketogenic diets come in. Ketogenic diets are designed to switch on our fat-burning mode and stop us from storing fat!

When we burn fat for energy, our body has all the energy it needs, then we only need to eat food that will speed up the fat-burning process.

As we no longer use sugar or carbohydrate as a fuel source, we stop feeling hunger pangs, cravings, mood swings and we start to feel happy, satisfied and energised! So if you want to improve your health and increase in your quality of life, then I highly recommend the ketogenic diet.

Why Cut Carbs From Your Diet?

Restricting your intake of carbohydrates, especially refined carbohydrates, can be very effective in reducing your belly fat. Many studies have shown that when people restrict the number of carbohydrates in their diet, they have been able to lose weight in a brief period.

Over 20 randomised controlled trials have now shown that low-carb diets lead to 2-3 times more weight loss than low-fat diets.

This is true even when individuals in the low-carb groups may eat as much as they want, while those in the low-fat groups restricted their calories and were subjected to essentially a 'starvation' diet. Other benefits of low-carb/ketogenic diets:

How To Cut Carbs The Right Way?

How can you reduce carbohydrates? Simply avoid all 'white' foods. These are the refined carbohydrates (white bread, pasta, etc.) that many people eat every day. They are often high in empty calories and have a high glycaemic index, so they are quickly processed and easily converted into fat.

If you want to lose weight quickly, consider reducing your carbohydrate intake to 50g per day. This will put your body into ketosis, reduce your appetite and allow your body to burn mainly fat.