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8 Ketogenic Foods That Can Help You Lose Weight

  • January 27, 2017

Across the U.S. the ketogenic diet, which reduces your carb intake, is the rage. In response, Women’s Health has offered up eight foods that are ketogenic — and of course they can all be used as a diet and weight loss aid, whether you’re on a ketogenic diet or not. They include: salmon, macadamia nuts, eggs, coconut oil, green tea, avocados, peanut butter and aged cheese.

As you know, I support a ketogenic diet: There's emerging scientific evidence that a high-fat, low-net carb and moderate protein diet is an ideal diet for most people. However, compliance tends to be low for a number of reasons, and that’s why I try to educate you on ways to begin a nutritional ketosis program.

Nutritional ketosis, which involves eating a high-quality, high-fat diet that is low in net carbs, may be one of the most useful interventions for many chronic diseases. 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 fats to net carbs plus protein. This means your grams of healthy fats will be about equal to your combined grams of non-fiber carbs and protein put together.

Also, as you add the ketogenic foods, be sure that they come from organic sources, including pastured meats and dairy, and free-ranging poultry. Remember: Healthy fats include coconuts and coconut oil, MCT oil, raw grass-fed butter, lard, ghee, avocados and pastured egg yolks.