Ketogenic Diet

Known as Keto or Low-Carb diet, it is a diet that forces your body to convert your fat into energy. You do by starving your body of carbohydrates, rather than calories. A normal body, one not on the keto diet, generally uses glucose as its energy source as the glucose molecule is the easiest to convert into energy. Therefore, in depriving your body of glucose, the body is put into a state of ketosis. This state is the body’s natural reaction to low food intake, where it substitutes the lack of glucose with fat.

The benefits of a ketogenic diet are numerous, and therefore benefit most genders and ages. They include: Weight loss; burns body fats to be used as an energy source, Controls blood sugar; foods that a ketogenic diet calls for, are generally low in sugar and, Better mental focus; the state of ketosis produces ketones which provide fuel for the brain. And these are just a few of the multitude of benefits the ketogenic diet provides.