Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting for Beginners (eBook)

A Complete Guide to the Keto Fasting Lifestyle Gain the Weight Loss Clarity You Need

Jimmy Clark (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
203 Seiten
Bro Books (Verlag)
661000012014-7 (EAN)

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Discover How to Maximize Your Weight Loss and Health Potential with the Science of Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting

 

Are you looking for a way to shed off that excess weight faster with sustained energy levels?

 

Do you want to maximize the benefits and accelerate the effects of being on both Ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting?

 

Reaching your goals does not have to be such a difficult and stressful process. Not only is there an abundance of anecdotal evidence for the health benefits and weight loss effects of the Ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, but there are numerous studies that prove these beneficial effects as well. And, more studies are continuing to come out every day.

 

The Ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting may be quite a change from what you are used to, but it is a change that will guide you on towards health and your goal weight. Many people, once they have adapted to the change, enjoy eating more than ever, and wouldn't want to go back.

 

This guide will teach you everything to help you decide if Keto and Intermittent Fasting is right for you, how to follow it properly, and will give you tips to ensure your success. Eating less often or eating fewer carbohydrates does not have to mean you are enjoying your food less, but rather more!

 

Here's what you'll get from this book:

The History and Science Behind the Ketogenic Diet

The Health Benefits of Going Keto

The Fundamentals of the Ketogenic Diet

What You Can and Cannot Eat

The History and Science Behind Intermittent Fasting

The Fundamentals of Intermittent Fasting

Combining Intermittent Fasting and the Ketogenic Diet

Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

 

While crash diets come and go the Ketogenic diet has been around, helping people not only lose weight but gain health, for nearly a century. Likewise, intermittent fasting has been around for weight loss, religion, health, and as a necessity for thousands of years!

 

Take your time and learn why Ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting stands out when compared to other fad diets.

 

Grab your copy of this guide today and get started with Ketogenic and intermittent fasting lifestyle for ultimate health and wellbeing!

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Chapter 1:

The History and Science Behind the Ketogenic Diet

 

The world has recently been taken by storm by the ketogenic diet and its claims of health and weight loss. The ketogenic diet, or often simply referred to as 'keto diet', is a low-carbohydrate, moderate-protein, and high-fat diet. It may seem contradictory to well-known health recommendations to cut out grains and increase fat, yet, there are numerous studies showing the health benefits of this plan. The ketogenic diet is not just another crash diet scheme; it is a long-term plan for health, wellness, and yes, weight loss.

 

This History

While the ketogenic diet would not originate until the 1920s, the groundwork for it began back in 1911 when the first modern study on fasting for the treatment of epilepsy was conducted in France. In this study twenty different epileptic patients of various ages went on a low-calorie vegetarian diet, paired with periods of fasting. While most of the patients struggled under the strenuous restrictions of this diet, two of them did benefit enormously. These patients experienced a remarkable improvement in their mental capabilities, quite a contrast to their medication which had dulled their minds.

 

Around the same time, Bernarr Macfadden, an American advocate of physical culture, which is a method of combining diet and strength training, began popularizing fasting for health. Of Macfadden's supporters, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, Hugh Conklin, began to treat his hundreds of epileptic patients with fasting. Conklin would recommend his patients maintain an eighteen to twenty-five-day fast, to rid the body of supposed toxins. While he only had a fifty percent success rate in adults, Conklin was able to successfully treat ninety percent of the children under his care. Overall twenty percent of Conklin's patients were able to become seizure-free, and fifty percent had some improvement. Conklin's treatment was so successful that it soon became a mainstream treatment by neurologists.

 

Dr. McMurray wrote to the New York Medical Journal in 1916, claiming success in treating epileptic patients beginning in the year of 1912 with a fast followed with a sugar and starch-free diet. Soon thereafter, once seeing Conklin's success first-hand, a prominent endocrinologist, Dr. H. Rawle Geyelin of the New York Presbyterian Hospital decided to try to recreate the outcome in the treatment of his own thirty-six patients. Geyelin reported his success to the American Medical Association.
Studies continued into the 1920s. The parents of one of Conklin's successfully treated patients, Charles Howland, gave his brother, John Howland, a professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, $5,000 in order to continue the research of ketosis and epilepsy. This payment was able to fund research by neurologist Stanley Cobb and his assistant, William G. Lennox.

 

In the year of 1921 endocrinologist, Dr. Rollin Woodyatt found that water-soluble compounds, acetone, acetoacetate, and β-hydroxybutyrate were produced by the liver, as a result of starvation, fasting, and in a diet both high in fat and low in carbohydrates. These compounds are known as ketones.

 

During the same year Dr. Russell Wilder, from the Mayo Clinic, gave this diet the name it is now known for. Dr. Wilder proposed that a ketogenic diet could be equally as effective in treating epilepsy, but with the ability to be maintained for much longer periods of time.

 

Another doctor at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Peterman, treated his patients following the diet and noted improvements in their behavior and cognitive function. Dr. Peterman believed and stressed the importance of teaching caregivers how to manage the diet, individualizing the plan for each patient, and close continuous follow-ups. Before long the success of the ketogenic diet become well-known, and it was recorded in nearly every comprehensive textbook on childhood epilepsy between the years of 1941 and 1980.

 

In 1938, Tracy J. Putnam and H. Houston Merritt made a historic discovery of an anticonvulsant drug, Dilantin, which became a pioneer in epileptic drug research and therapy. However, this new era in drug treatment led to a decline in the use and knowledge of the ketogenic diet.

 

Due to the decline of the use of the ketogenic diet in 1971 Dr. Peter Huttenlocher, from the University of Chicago, introduced medium-chain triglycerides, otherwise known as MCTs, into the ketogenic diet. It had been found that MCTs produce more ketones per unit of energy than other sources of fat, meaning that patients on the diet were able to increase their protein and carbohydrate levels compared to the original version of the diet. This enabled epileptic children to enjoy a wider range of more palatable foods while on the diet, which made it easier to maintain.

 

Despite Dr. Huttenlocher's efforts, the ketogenic diet continued to decline as a wider variety of anticonvulsants became available. Many doctors believed that anticonvulsants were the wave of the future and that the ketogenic diet would no longer be necessary or justified. This led to fewer epileptics being placed on the diet and a decrease in dietitian awareness. As there were fewer dietitians fully aware of the ketogenic diet it would often be implemented incorrectly with miscalculations, leading people to believe that the diet was unhealthy and ineffective.

 

It took over two decades but the ketogenic diet began to make a comeback when it was discovered that it could be used to treat epilepsy that is resistant to drug therapy. The beneficial effects of the ketogenic diet made national attention when NBC's series Dateline aired a program in October of 1994 reporting on the case of Charlie Abrahams, the son of Hollywood producer Jim Abrahams. Charlie, a two-year-old, lived with epilepsy that was uncontrolled by either mainstream or alternative treatments until his parents learned of the ketogenic diet and brought Charlie to John Freeman at John's Hopkins Hospital, which was one of the few hospitals to continue in the treatment of epilepsy with the ketogenic diet.

 

Once on the ketogenic diet, Charlie made a rapid recovery and resumed to make developmental progress, which inspired his parents to create the Charlie Foundation in order to fund further research and promote the diet. Abrahams even produced a movie which aired on TV in 1997 starring Meryl Streep, First Do No Harm.

 

A multicenter prospective study on the ketogenic diet began in 1994, and the results were shared with the American Epilepsy Society two years later and in 1998, the results were officially published. This lead to an explosion of scientific interest in the ketogenic diet and studies continued to follow.

 

The Science

The human body is capable of transmuting any type of ingested nutrient into a usable energy source. Fats, proteins, and carbohydrates can all be converted into fuel through various metabolic processes. This means that the process of ketosis is natural and something the body can go through on a daily basis without a person even realizing it. Whenever you do not have glucose readily available to use as fuel because you skipped a meal, exercised for over an hour, or ate a low number of carbohydrates that day, you can unknowingly slip into a light ketosis.

 

But first, to understand how ketones are made you need to know how the body processes carbohydrates. After eating a high-carbohydrate meal or excessive amounts of proteins, the metabolic process will break it down into a simple sugar, known as glucose, as this will provide cells with the quickest source of adenosine triphosphate, or rather ATP energy. ATP is a complex organic chemical that is the primary molecule used to provide energy to nearly every cell and system in the body.

 

Every type of fuel, whether fat, carbohydrate, or protein can increase your body's ATP levels to some extent. The body uses much of this energy solely to maintain itself every day, yet, in today's age, many people consume highly processed and high caloric foods without expending the energy needed to burn off all of those extra calories. Rather than excreting the excess calories the body will store it in case of emergency, and it does this in two ways:

 

1. Glycogenesis: During the process of glycogenesis any excess glucose is converted to glycogen, which is the stored version of sugar that is kept in the liver and muscles. The body can store approximately two-thousand calories of glycogen between both the muscles and liver. Depending on the person and their energy output this glycogen can be depleted within six to twenty-four hours when no other calories are consumed during that time.

 

There is another source of energy storage that will help sustain us when we run out of glycogen, which is the process of lipogenesis.

 

2. Lipogenesis: Once there is no more space for glycogen stores in your muscles and liver, any extra glucose will be converted through a process known as lipogenesis. This process converts glucose into fat and stores it as adipose, also known as body fat. This type of storage, unlike glycogenesis, is unlimited and has the ability to sustain us for months with a limited food supply.

 

Whether nutrients are from carbohydrates, fats, or proteins, the human body can use it as fuel. A large majority of the body's cells, those with mitochondria, are able to utilize fat as an energy source, which has quite a few benefits. Yet, there are some cells in the body that are not...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Keto Diet
• Reihe/Serie: Keto Diet
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Schlagworte: Intermittent Fasting • Keto Fasting Lifestyle • Ketogenic diet • Weight Loss Clarity