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What is the Best Source of Fat on a Ketogenic Diet? I hope, by now you understand that the answer is not so simple. Your best “fatome” depends on your genome, microbiome, etc., lifestyle, and nutritional perspective. To help you start to ponder, we will leave you with some qu...
This is a big part of my job, especially asstudies published on PubMedsuggest that close to 50% of adults are currently overweight or obese (1). Over the last 30+ years in the fitness industry, I’ve learned a lot about diet and nutrition. My biggest “discovery” is that there isno...
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” At The Truth About Cancer we talk a lot about what causes cancer, and the foods that fight cancer and lower your cancer risk. Now I’m going to talk to you about known, scientifically proven, cancer causing foods that actively increa...
A high fat, ketogenic diet naturally provides more copper, vitamin D, magnesium and selenium because the foods it emphasizes are higher in those nutrients. In addition, a ketogenic dietimproves the metabolic markers for heart diseaserisk. It's that simple. When the carbohydrate intake is lowered...
For example, women who adopt a very low-carb or ketogenic diet that contains too few calories – especially when these women lose too much weight and/or exercise excessively – may stop menstruating. This is known ashypothalamic amenorrheaand can indicate a need for more carbohydrates in the di...
It wasn’t until I started researching inositol for a chapter on supplements for my PCOS book, that I saw the evidence first-hand. Inositol, specifically myo and d-chiro inositol (DCI) is perhaps the most studied of supplements for PCOS. If you do a Pubmed search on Inositol and PCOS,...
If you are thinking of trying an egg fast, which is a type of ketogenic diet modification, here’s what you should know first.
this rule is when you are on a very low-carb ketogenic diet when consuming sources of medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs – a special kind of fat) will help raise ketone levels and give you more energy for training. However, this does NOT apply to a standard moderate or high-carb diet. ...
The molecular structure of polyunsaturated fatty acid (Credit: thepaleodiet.com) There are two main groups of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA): omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. The ratio of those two types of PUFAs is a crucial factor in determining how healthy an oil (or any other typ...