The Best Way to Recommend a Ketogenic Diet to More Patients for Weight Loss and Reversing Diabetes

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Are your patients looking to lose weight, manage diabetes with lifestyle and diet choices or make some overall health changes? You may have heard about the Ketogenic Diet as a way to accomplish this. Our Digital Health Guidance platform comes stocked with over 60 programs, one being the True Ketogenic Diet for Weight Loss. Use the our program to educate your patients about eating keto, losing weight or reversing diabetes.

What is a Ketogenic Diet?

The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, moderate-protein, very low-carb diet. This diet generates the production of ketone bodies which pass into the brain and replace glucose as an energy source.

What is Ketosis?

The ketogenic diet causes the body to produce small fuel molecules called “ketones” which are produced from the breakdown of fats in the liver. The source of fuel and energy for the brain is glucose. Ketones are an alternative fuel for the brain, used when blood sugar (glucose) is in short supply. Ketones are produced if very few carbs and only moderate amounts of protein are eaten. On the keto diet, glucose levels are exhausted and the body is prompted to give the brain energy through an alternative method, ketones. The body takes stored fat through the liver and produces ketones which is then used as fuel throughout the body, including the brain. When the body produces ketones, it is called ketosis. Exhausting the body of glucose on a ketogenic diet forces the body to run entirely on fat which burns stored fat more rapidly.

Ketogenic Benefits:

  • Weight Loss
  • Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
  • Clear acne
  • Lessen stomach problems
  • Increased physical endurance/energy
  • Mental focus
  • Control blood sugar
  • And more!

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Foods Your Patients CAN Eat while following the Keto Lifestyle:

  • Low-carb vegetables
  • Leafy greens
  • Nuts
  • Other fats including coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, avocado oil, etc.
  • Meats
  • Fatty fish
  • High-fat dairy including hard cheeses, high-fat cream, butter
  • Avocado and berries
  • Condiments: use salt, pepper and fresh herbs and spices.

Foods Your Patients CAN’T Eat while following the Keto Lifestyle:

  • Fruit
  • Alcohol
  • Legumes
  • Low-fat and diet products (including sugar-free foods)
  • Condiments and sauces
  • Unhealthy fat: processed vegetable oils, mayonnaise, etc.
  • Grains or starches
  • All forms of sugar
  • Tubers – potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.

For more information on the Ketogenic Diet and other diets, check out Be Healthy Today’s article here.