A low-carb diet typically means limiting carbs to roughly 25 percent of your calories, Annie Reed, a registered dietitian in Greenville, said — though that number can range from 15 to 35 percent, depending on a number of factors. (This is why experts recommend working with a dietitian to establish a plan.) “The remainder of calories…
Keto Diet Helps Stop The Growth Of Certain Cancers, Study
In a brand-new animal study published in Cell Reports, researchers found that by restricting circulating blood glucose (aka blood sugar) levels in mice with lung cancer, they were able to prevent the growth of squamous cell carcinoma tumors. To reach this conclusion, the researchers lowered circulating blood glucose in mice by feeding them a ketogenic…
How To Prevent Keto Leg Cramps
Oftentimes when people start looking into going keto, they can be dissuaded by the “keto flu”—a particularly ominous sounding side effect of the diet. The keto flu is a constellation of symptoms, including fatigue, headaches, and muscle cramps, which are a direct result of reducing carbohydrates and transitioning your body’s primary fuel source from glucose…
Essential Supplements To Take While on Keto Diet
Alzheimer’s disease makes it more difficult for the brain to access glucose as a fuel. The lack of food starves brain cells and causes them to die. But ketone bodies in MCT oil can serve as an alternative source of energy for the brain, and ketogenic diets have been tested on dementia patients. Natural health experts are excited…
Boosts Your Memory and Brain Health with MCT Oil
Alzheimer’s disease makes it more difficult for the brain to access glucose as a fuel. The lack of food starves brain cells and causes them to die. But ketone bodies in MCT oil can serve as an alternative source of energy for the brain, and ketogenic diets have been tested on dementia patients. Natural health experts are excited…
Gain Optimal Health Through Keto Diet
The key to success on a high-fat diet is to eat high-quality healthy fats, not the fats most commonly found in the American diet (the processed fats and vegetable oils used in processed foods and fried restaurant meals). A way to ease into a ketogenic diet is to begin with a 1-to-1 ratio of healthy…
Significantly Reduce Health Risks With Organic Eating
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, has made headlines because it’s the most used agricultural chemical in history and because the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has identified it as a probable human carcinogen. An obvious answer to concerns about glyphosate exposure via your diet is to switch to organic foods.…
Low Carb Diet Found To Improve Metabolism and Reduce Liver Fat
A study in Cell Metabolism carried out by researchers from Sweden, looked at how a carbohydrate-restricted diet enhanced metabolism and improved liver fat levels in the body. In conducting the study, the research team put 10 individuals who were obese and had a high percentage of liver fat on a diet that restricted their carbohydrate consumption and increased…
DiaYogi Dialogues: 11 Conversations With Game Changers Who Teach Yoga and Live With Diabetes
In 2014 Rachel Zinman’s life was at rock bottom. Diagnosed with prediabetes, not knowing she actually had LADA ( Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults) she was in complete denial. Rachel had been living and breathing yoga since she was 19 with the mindset that yogis don’t get sick. Obviously, she was wrong. After tests confirmed…
