Some of you people here read toooo little about keto and making false statement to scare off new comers/people who want to try out keto.
Keto diet is all about macronutrients, heck all diet uses macronutrients.
The key here is to maintain good balance, with a recommended ratio of 65/30/5 = fats/protein/carbs
Fats from animal is perfectly healthy for this diet, people nowadays thought fats are bad for body. NO, carbs and sugar are bad for body.
This is an explaination I gotten from an article regarding insulin response :
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Insulin is one of the most important aspects of your body that a Ketogenic diet focuses on. It is a hormone secreted by the pancreas that regulates the metabolism of fat and carbs, specifically in the blood. Its main job is to regulate the distribution of energy to the cells of the body from fat storage. Its other job is to regulate blood sugar by producing lipoproteins (or fat proteins) that act as a bailiff for your blood stream and imprison the fat cell into your body once the glucose has been converted to fat. As you eat carbohydrates, the body must produce more insulin to keep up with ramped levels of glucose in the body and eventually your body begins to resist insulin which eventually leads to type 2 diabetes .
When you eat less carbs, less insulin is required to patrol your bloodstream and regulate your blood sugar. This means, simply, less fat storage as a result.
You need to know the nutrition facts for every food you put in your mouth. (Keep the ratio, keto is all about the ratio.)
All I can say about keto is, unless you know what you’re doing(study keto inside out upside down), if not don’t even try it, you’ll end up saying keto sucks and doesn’t work.
Added on November 6, 2012, 6:22 pmand this, from reddit. Is a very very well explained article about keto.
http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/ketoThis post has been edited by Qavs: Nov 6 2012, 06:22 PM