Ketogenic – or zero-carbohydrate diets – have been very popular with people trying to lose weight for the last few years. The reasons for their popularity are many. First off, they work. Eliminating carbs has the immediate effect of a lot of water dropped from the system. This, in turn, leads to a very sudden weight loss as well. Trainers often lose 5 to 10 pounds in their first week of low-carb dieting. Second, Ketogenic diets allow you to eat some seriously fun foods! Imagine being able to eat as much eggs, bacon, and other meat as you’d like! Imagine not being concerned with counting fat grams anymore. This makes the diet a very popular draw. Finally, this diet is extremely simple to understand. Users don’t have to count ...

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Ketogenic diets have been around since the 1920's - not just since the Atkins or South Beach Diet craze. They had a real public resurgence in 2003 and went strong for about 18 months until finally people not accustomed to discipline and knowing how to work the diet (the average Joe) saw that they could regain the weight as quickly as they lost it. But despite how much these diets have been recently villainized or labeled unhealthy, they are anything but. The benefits are many and far outweigh any negatives. Sadly, they are misunderstood and a lack of knowledge - even for some practitioners - is to blame. Ketones are produced by the liver from fatty acids which are the result of the breakdown of body fat in response to the absence of glucose (sugar). Being in "Ketosis" simply means that traces ...

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Though you may know it simply as a “low carb” diet, ketogenic diets are the hottest properties on the market right now. As a matter of fact in the last few years there have been “over 1500 low carb/ low glycemic products introduced into the marketplace” that will account for “over $30 billion dollars in expected sales this year alone”. That’s staggering support for a diet concept that, not so long ago, was lambasted and demonized as totally unhealthy! But even more staggering, is the fact that “26 million Americans are currently on a hardcore low carb diet right now”. In the past, the medical community balked at this sort of diet. They claimed that while it was beneficial for those who were diabetic and forced into watching insulin, and useful for some who were epileptic and required seizure control through dietary means, it was ...

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