A WELL- FORMULATED KETOGENIC DIET - Lipedema Worldwide …
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A WELL- FORMULATED KETOGENIC DIET Or How to Eat Your Way to Health and Enjoy Doing it!
Transcript of A WELL- FORMULATED KETOGENIC DIET - Lipedema Worldwide …
A WELL-FORMULATED
KETOGENIC DIET Or How to Eat Your Way to Health and Enjoy Doing it!
ENJOY EATING REAL FOOD
The Food Pyramid as a Failed Paradigm
Low Fat Guidelines
● Dietary fat was villainized and replaced with carbohydrates.
● Eating a plant-based diet
was lauded without scientific evidence.
● The more we complied
with the Guidelines, the fatter and sicker we got.
Used with Permission
Insulin Response
Time
Carbs
Protein
Fat
Time
Carbs
Protein
Fat
Blood Glucose
Baseline
Baseline
Baseline
If I have all of this stored energy, how come I’m still so hungry?
Eat Carbohydrates
Blood Glucose
Increases
Fat Storage Increases
Hunger Increases
Insulin Increases
DAILY CARBOHYDRATE REQUIREMENT
“The lower limit of dietary carbohydrate compatible with life apparently is zero, provided that adequate amounts of protein and fat are consumed.”
Institute of Medicine, Dietary Reference Intakes, 2008
A WELL-FORMULATED KETOGENIC DIET
◦ Low Carbohydrate ◦ Moderate Protein ◦ High Fat ◦ Changes primary fuel source to fat (ketones) from carbohydrate (glucose) ◦ Adipose tissue is method of storing our preferred fuel source ◦ Meaningful weight loss without muscle loss (Paoli et al., 2013)
25%
15% 60%
Standard American Diet (SAD)
Protein Fat Carbohydrate
20%
70%
10%
Ketogenic Diet
Protein Fat Carbohydrate
KETOGENIC DIET FOR HEALTH & WEIGHT LOSS
History of using a ketogenic diet for:
◦ Epilepsy (Helmholz & Goldstein, 1938; Lambrechts et al., 2016)
◦ Cancer (Simone et al., 2013, Seyfried et al., 2012)
◦ Cardiovascular Disease (Cicero et al., 2015)
◦ Type 2 Diabetes (Feinman et al., 2015)
◦ Weight Loss (Bazzano et al., 2014)
◦ Neurological Conditions (Stafstrom & Rho, 2012)
◦ Lipedema?
WHAT ABOUT KETOACIDOSIS?
◦ Fed state 0.1 mmol/L ◦ Overnight fast 0.3 mmol/L ◦ Low-carb ketogenic diet 1–3 mmol/L ◦ > 20 days fasting 10 mmol/L ◦ Diabetic ketoacidosis 25 mmol/L
WHAT ABOUT MY CHOLESTEROL?
Well-Formulated Ketogenic Diet vs. Low Fat Diet ◦ lower triglycerides ◦ decreased LDL ◦ increased HDL Other Health Markers ◦ decreased CRP (lowered inflammation) ◦ decreased HbA1c (lowered blood sugar)
(Dashti et al., 2006; Hu et al., 2012)
TAKE PLEASURE IN FOOD WHILE LOSING WEIGHT & ATTAINING HEALTH
