Keto: A Simple trendy healthy diet

Maintain a healthy weight and loosing overweight is important for all of us. But to achieve this target there are so many diet plans so much stuff to follow. Got confused about what to do to lose and maintain weight and, what is the best way for you to follow. Well don’t be I am starting a chain of blogs with different diet plans. You just need to choose what seems best to you and start following. But first, remember two things. Don’t starve and don’t select anything and everything for dieting; not every diet plan is for you, it is better to consult your doctor before following any of them. 

The first in this Chain is Keto. Why keto? Well because it is healthy, simple and, one of the most trending diet plans for quite a few years. Forbes has placed it on top as the trendiest diet of 2018 and it is still on top three in the year 2020.

What is Ketogenic or Keto diet?

Keto diet is an eating plan that emphasized on foods, which provide a lot of healthy fats, and a proper portion of protein and a low amount of carbohydrates. In keto we switch towards fat from carbohydrates to get calories and set our goals. 

The keto diet comes with several versions 

• Standard Keto diet SKD is very low in carbohydrates moderate protein and high fats. 
• Cyclical Keto diet CKD involves periodic carb feeds like five days of keto 2 days of carbohydrates.
• Targeted Keto diet: You can add your Carbs around workouts in this version of the ketogenic diet.
• High Protein Keto diet; it is similar to standard version but it just adds more protein than the standard one.

The choice is upon us which standard to follow. It also depends on the reason for following the diet. For instance, if you are doing it to maintain the weight you may go for standard ketogenic diet SKD.

 Benefits of Keto

Ketogenic diet is proved beneficial for human bodies due to different reasons

ü  Weight loss: The most popular idea for following the ketogenic diet is to lose weight. Keto helps to promote weight loss in different ways which include boosting the metabolism system and reducing the appetite. Keto consists of foods that fill the appetite and may cause to reduce hunger increasing hormones. Eventually you may reduce the appetite and encourage weight loss. Many types of research in past years have shown that people who follow keto lose weight more than the people following carb diets.

ü  Improves acne: Keto diet is very good for skin problems. In keto we cut down sugar and other carbohydrate products. Sugar and glucose level is one of the reasons to cause acne and skin problems. Thus it has been proved useful to decrease acne problems.

ü  Improvement of heart health: While following Keto we make a conscious choice of selecting healthy foods with healthy fats. This eventually causes the reduction of the cholesterol level, which is a major reason for heart diseases. Keto food items include healthy fats that contain good cholesterol, therefore less chance of heart complications. 

ü  Improved Brain Function: Some studies suggested that ketones which are released, in following keto diet provide neuroprotective benefits. It means the keto can strengthen and protect the brain and nerve cells. That’s why it can help to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

ü  Reduce the chances of cancer: Few studies in the past have shown that the Keto program helps to reduce cancer factors. It also lowers the insulin level in the body that may have a link to a few types of cancer.

ü  Risks you might have: While following keto there can be risks one can have in their lives. For instance in the long run it may cause constipation & deficiency of vitamins. And at the start of it, you may feel fatigued and headaches. Diabetic patients are strongly recommended to consult the doctor before following it.

Lastly, keep in mind that be consistent, but don’t take things at an extreme level. Excess of everything is bad. Take your health seriously, but always make space for changes. This will always bring a positive vibe in your health and your life.