What are Keto Foods? Ketosis For Health and The Keto Diet - Choosing Ketogenic Foods Video 3

In the last video (https://bit.ly/KetosisBasics) we learned that our bodies are much happier and we are healthier if our cells burn fat instead of sugar.

General recommendations are that we can put our body in ketosis if we eat the food groups in the following proportions:

50 percent from fat, 30 percent from protein and 20 percent from carbohydrates.

These numbers aren't fixed and they will fluctuate for each individual depending on their metabolism. The normal Western diet has the following recommended proportions:

50 percent from carbohydrates, 30 percent from protein and just 20 percent or less from fat.

There's obviously a big difference here with the standard Western diet, giving almost exactly the opposite proportions to those required for maximum health.

So how did this occur?

In the seventies many western countries adopted nutritional guidelines. In these guidelines it was proposed to eat certain foods in the proportions that we see on the slide, which are really exactly opposite to that required for maximum health on the left.

This model very quickly became the mainstay of the Dogma surrounding nutrition. A dogma is a prevailing accepted truth that is thought to be self evident and is never really questioned. The first two levels are massively loaded with sugar, for carbohydrates in bread cereals potatoes or metabolized into sugar. Recent research is showing us that overconsumption of sugar is directly responsible
for illnesses such as diabetes and cancer.

In effect we are gradually poisoning ourselves from an early age promoting addictions to foods that make us obese and create all kinds of illness. It's more correct to call these illnesses 'symptoms' because they are symptoms of something wrong with our body, the way that it's working, and the body is compensating the best way that it can by producing disease.

The food pyramid for ketosis is very different and reflects the recommended portions of the food groups when following the Keto diet. You may have heard of the Keto diet which is primarily promoted for profit as a weight loss regime. It does indeed promote weight loss but its effect on the human body goes far beyond the physically visible.

The end effect of the diet is that the body's cells burn predominantly fat, which doesn't produce waste products like sugar burning does. Waste products destroy mitochondria, promote inflammation and cause disease. You need to become a food detective in fact and become more aware of what it says on the labels and what is inside the foods that we see on the supermarket shelves.

Obviously meat with hormones, plants with insecticide sprays but there are also hidden dangers in many of the so-called healthy food packages that we buy every single day.

The biggest part of the equation is to drastically reduce sugars and carbs. Carbohydrates metabolize into sugar and overconsumption of either will ensure that our cells never burn fat, even when it's available. A vast amount of so-called healthy food is filled with carbohydrates and sugars.

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