Weight loss smoothie recipe

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Many people have in the recent time started drinking more weight loss smoothie as an alternative to normal food. I have for some time been using smoothies now and then as a part of my keto diet and have good experience with these weight loss smoothies. In order to help everyone out I would like to share my favorite weight loss smoothie recipe.

Before I share my weight loss smoothie recipe I would however first like to point out that I am using the keto diet which means I eat a low amount of carbohydrates and a high amount of fat. The smoothies I suggest below are based on ingredients that are suitable for my diet and might not be ideal if you are on a different kind of diet.

Weight loss smoothie recipe

weight loss smoothie recipe

weight loss smoothie recipe

This smoothie is something I like to call the fat bomb smoothie since it is so high on fat.

1 cup coconut milk
2 tbsp unrefined coconut oil
1/3 cup strawberries
a pinch of salt

This is also one of my favorite smoothies and I make it quite regularly. The reason I have some salt in the recipe is both to bring out the taste but also since I usually have this one after I have been to the gym so I feel like I need some additional salt then. Strawberries and fruit is usually not something that is part of a keto diet but I only add a few and need it for the taste. You can also try it with other fruit to give it a different taste if you prefer that. If you would like you could also mix in some protein powder to make a totally new weight loss smoothies combination. If you use a protein powder with some flavor you could also skip adding in the fruit and save on the carbohydrates.

You can also find some more smoothie diet recipes over at dietketo.com.
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Low carb ice cream recipes

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I always like to make some low carb ice cream when it is hot out. The normal ice cream that you can buy in the store usually contains a lot of additional ingredients that are not good for you. They usually also contain a lot of carbohydrates which are not good for you if you are on a low carb diet. It is also very easy to make your own low carb ice cream so there is no big reason to not do so.

In order to help you with making your own low carb ice cream I have put together the different recipes that I normally use in one place so you can also make your own ice cream. The recipes are all very easy and only takes a few minutes to make. You need some waiting time to make them cold but after that all you need to do is to enjoy your own low carb ice cream.

Fruit low carb ice cream

The most simple and best recipe is to mix some low carbohydrate fruit together with some heavy whipping cream. All you need is a mixer to prepare this simple ice cream recipe. I usually use strawberries or blueberries to make my ice cream but you could use any other fruit you like. Just remember to use fruit that is low on carbohydrates.

low carb ice cream

low carb ice cream

Take the fruit and put them in your mixer, then you simply add the heavy whipping cream and mix everything together until it is well blended. Put everything in the freezer for around 60 to 80 minutes and then it is ready to enjoy. The low carb ice cream is best if you serve it together with some small pieces of the fruit.

Protein low carb ice cream

The second ice cream that I like to make is also very simple and only takes a few minutes to prepare. I start out with 1 scoop of whey protein and mix it with around 3 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream. Mix everything until it starts to get a little thick and then put it in the freezer for 60 to 80 minutes.

low carb ice cream with protein

low carb ice cream with protein

The good thing with protein powder is that you can use different kind and with different flavors. My favorites are strawberry and chocolate but try out some different ones to find the one you like the best.

There you have it, some very simple and easy recipes for low carb ice cream that you can make within 5 minutes.

You can also check out the below books if you want more ideas for low carb ice cream recipes.
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Cancer diet book recommendations

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If you have been eating according to a low carb diet to help treat or prevent cancer then you probably also are interested in cancer diet book recommendations. I have done some research and read many different books that are related to cancer and different diets. Here I will go through the best books and which ones I recommend you to read to learn more about different cancer diets.

The first cancer diet book to start of is also one of the best and most popular books, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman and Mehmet C. O. This book is very popular and many people who have read it give it very high reviews. The book is mainly focusing on how to loose weight and how to do it quickly but also goes into how different diets can impact cancer. If you are only looking for one book to read I would recommend this one.

The second cancer diet book I would like to recommend is The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health. This book is going into how food and the things you eat will impact both your weight and also your general health. It is just like the previous book not focusing on cancer but the general health. A very good book that covers a lot of different things.


The third cancer diet book I would recommend is not only a book with facts but it also covers a lot of recipes that are good for you and your cancer fighting. The book is called The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery and is written by Rebecca Katz and Mat Edelson. There are many good recipes in the book and also some very nice pictures to go with all the recipes.

The last cancer diet book I would like to recommend is a book that focus on different foods that are good for fighting cancer. The book contains key foods that have been medically shown to not only help with preventing cancer but also in the treatment of cancer. The book is written by Richard Beliveau who have also done a lot of research about cancer. The book is called Foods to Fight Cancer: Essential foods to help prevent cancer
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Ketostix to know if you are in ketosis or not

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In order to find out if you are in ketosis or not it is useful to buy ketostix to measure the ketone levels in your urine. Ketostix are known under many different names such as Urine Test Strips, Reagent Strips, Ketone Testing Strips and Lipolysis Test Strips but the original name is Ketostix. In this article we will go through what Ketostix are and how to use them and I will also give some suggestions on the best places to buy Ketostix.

How Ketostix works

In order to understand how Ketostix works we first need to take a look at what Ketones are. Ketones are incompletely burned carbon fragments and the fact that they are not as useful as fuel for the body is also what makes them more efficient. When on a keto diet or other low carb diets you eat less carbohydrates and the body needs to start using fat instead as its main energy source. When this happens the fat cells start to release ketoacids into the blood. The organs will then use these ketoacids as fuel and the leftover from this process are ketones. The way the body gets rid of the ketones is through the urine and that is why you can measure the ketone level through your urine with the help of ketostix.

ketostix chart

ketostix chart

As you probably already know using a ketostix is not in any way mandatory when on a low carb diet but it can be a way for you to know if you are in the state of ketosis or not. If you are in ketosis the body is buring fat in the most efficient so it is useful to know this. For people who are just starting out with a low carb diet I highly recommend to use ketostix to understand how the food you eat affects your ketone levels.

Where to buy ketostix

The ketostix provide a simple and efficient way to understand this and help you optimize your low carb diet. All you need to do is simply dip the ketostix into a urine specimen and remove it directly. You could also just put the ketostix in your urine stream. Then all you need to do is check the color chart within 10-15 seconds to see your ketone levels. There are many different brands of urine test strips to choose from but the original one is Ketostix that is made by Bayer. This is also the most common one and the on I recommend. You can find it in most pharmacies but then the price usually is around $20 to $25 for 50 sticks. To save some money I instead recommend you to purchase them online. The best price I have found for them is at Amazon where you can get 50 Ketostix for as low as $15. You could also go for the 100 Ketostix package and that one is priced at $21 at Amazon.

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Keto breath, tips to help improve it

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keto breath

keto breath

People who eat according to a keto diet sometimes get something that is called keto breath. This means that you will have a bad smell from your urine and your breath that is due to that certain chemicals are released in your breath when the body is burning fat. The body will then release ketones which happens when you get into a state of ketosis. This is what is causing the bad keto breath.

Keto breath as a way to tell you are in ketosis

Some people use the smell in the urine and the breath as of a way to tell that they are really in the state of ketosis but for other people it can be a problem. You however do not need to be worried since this is very natural and nothing to fear.

“Carbohydrates aren’t readily available, so you start to use other fats and proteins as your source of energy, and as a result you are going to get a breath problem” – Kenneth Burrell, senior director of the council on scientific affairs of the American Dental Association.

keto breath cure

keto breath cure

The usual reason for that people have a breath is that they have a bad dental hygiene. This is however not the case with bad keto breath since it will not help with that you brush, floss or scrape your mouth. There is no real thing that you can do to actually remove the bad breath but you can of course do some things to hide it.

How to hide keto breath

The first tip to help with the bad keto breath is to use mouthwash or sugar-less chewing gum. There is however still a chance that the bad breath might come through even this but at least it will help hide it. You can also eat some sugarless mints to help hide the keto breath. Make sure that whatever you use do not contain any carbohydrates since that will impact your diet progress.

Another option is to change your entire diet but for most people that is not a valid option.

“If you have a metabolic cause of bad breath, there is very little the dentist can do; you have to change your diet”

You could also try to drink more water since it will wash out pieces of food that you might still have in your mouth. These small pieces of food in your mouth might help to increase the bad breath. If none of these tips help you to get rid of your keto breath then you could as a final solution try to contact a doctor to see if the bad breath depends on other reasons.

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Keto diet and cancer – can keto help cancer treatment?

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In today there are many people who seek for alternative cancer treatments. There are also many people who talk about keto diet and cancer treatment and how a special diet can help with reducing or preventing cancer. Using a special diet like the keto diet is an inexpensive and easy way to help with cancer treatment. There are also virtually no side effects and keto diet can also be used in conjunction with other cancer treatments.

keto diet and cancer treatment

keto diet and cancer treatment

Keto diet and cancer, a story from a doctor

Let’s start this story about keto diet and cancer treatment with Dr. Fred Hatfield who is an author of many books but has also had cancer.

The doctors gave me three months to live because of widespread metastatic cancer in my skeletal structure. Three months, three different doctors told me that same thing.

Dr. Fred Hatfield’s wife Gloria also commented on his cancer in this way.

It’s a horrible, horrible feeling to have someone tell you that the person you love only has three months to live and you’re not going to be with him any more.

Dr. Fred Hatfield however turned his situation around when he heard about an anti-cancer diet which he tried out and was shocked that it actually worked.

The cancer was gone! Completely. To this day there’s no trace of it. And it’s been over a year.

The anti-cancer diet that Dr. Fred Hatfield tried out was very similar to a keto diet and when he stopped eating carbohydrates the cancer cells in his body got starved and did not receive the glucose they need. When the cancer cells do not get enough glucose they instead stop reproducing.

keto diet cancer risks

keto diet cancer risks

It just absolutely amazes me that medical science is just now finding this out.

Similar findings have been found in research from Dr. Dominic D’Agostino who has proven that by removing carbohydrates from the diets of lab mice they were actually able to survive cancer. It was also proven that mice that were treated with chemotherapy did not do as good as the mice who ate according to a keto diet.

We have dramatically increased survival with metabolic therapy. So we think it’s important to get this information out.

Since these tests have been done on mice many people have doubted that the same results would be possible in humans but Dr. Dominic D’Agostino claims he has also seen similar results in people.

I’ve been in correspondence with a number of people. At least a dozen over the last year-and-a-half to two years, and all of them are still alive, despite the odds. So this is very encouraging.

Therefor it seems like keto diet and cancer treatment has a strong correlation and that people who want to help improve their cancer treatment should try out a keto diet or another low carb diet to further enhance their treatment.

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Low carb diet and caffeine, does it impact ketosis?

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Low carb diet and caffeine, is there any danger to kick you out of ketosis? This is a question that many people have been asking lately so I decided to look into this subject a little deeper to find out if there is any relation between a low carb diet and caffeine.

To start it off some background for me and how much caffeine I consume on a daily basis. I have been a coffee drinker for many years and drink 5-6 cups of coffee every day. This is a quite high amount of coffee if comparing with most people and I have also been consuming the same amount of coffee during my 5 months of being on a low carb diet. Personally I have not seen any negative effects of a low carb diet and caffeine consumption but in order to be more sure if there is a relationship between the two I have also looked into research done in this area.

low carb diet and caffeine

low carb diet and caffeine

If we start out with what people on the Internet are saying there is both people who claim they are seeing negative effects of drinking coffee or tea while on a low carb diet but there is also people who claim they do not see any impact at all. It is hard to track how many on each side but it seems most people do not see any impact. There seems to be some people who suggest that caffeine could impact or even interrupt the glucose metabolism, which in turn could possibly affect ketosis. However even in this case it is hard to find any true evidence.

Another point that is being made is that when in ketosis you decrease the insulin resistance by improving the insulin sensitivity. This means the ability for cells to absorb glucose. Since there is some indications that caffeine might increase the insulin resistance this could have any impact but I have not found any proof of this in research.

There however was one study at Duke University Medical Center that looked at how caffeine impacted the glucose levels and insulin resistance. The study showed that people who take 250mg of caffeine did not see any impact on their glucose levels. However there was a noticed impact on the glucose levels if they at the same time took 75 grams of carbohydrates together with the caffeine. This shows that glucose levels are impacted by a high amount of carbohydrates but there does not seem to be any relation between a low carb diet and caffeine impacting the glucose levels.

The same thing has also been mentioned by Lyle McDonald in his book “The Ketogenic Diet: A complete guide for the dieter and practitioner”. Lyle McDonald even goes so far to state that there is no chance that caffeine can interfere with ketosis.

In the end there is very few studies focusing on a low carb diet and caffeine. When I have been looking into this subject I have not been able to find a single study that is focusing on low carb diets and caffeine and the relation between the two so it is hard to draw a final conclusion on the actual impact. As long as I myself do not see any impact with my heavy coffee drinking I do not think there is any impact on ketosis due to a high intake of caffeine.

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Ketosis & Alcohol, what are the impacts?

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When on a ketogenic diet or other low carb diets there are many people asking if it is possible to combine ketosis and Alcohol. The simple answer is yes, you can stay in ketosis even though you drink alcohol but you need to be careful what kind of alcohol you drink. You can also not drink alcohol on a regular basis since it will impact your weight loss even though it does not take you out of ketosis.

The main reason that alcohol will impact your ketosis is that the body is not able to store the alcohol that you consume. Instead it will start to metabolize the calories in the alcohol first before the body uses any other energy sources. This means that you will not use fat as your main energy source until the alcohol in the body has been used up. Still does not impact ketosis, but your weight loss results.

ketosis alcohol

ketosis alcohol

Also when drinking alcohol on ketosis there are some kinds of alcohol that are better than others. Your first choice should be vodka, whiskey or other types of strong alcohol. They contain no or very little carbohydrates. If you do not like to drink strong alcohol then some dry wine is also quite okay. It contains some more carbohydrates but still okay now and then. Beer and other kinds of alcohol you should stay away from if you want to focus on your diet.

To help you to know how many calories there are in different types of alcohol you can use this keto alcohol cheat sheet from dietketo.com

Red Wines

Based on 5oz or 1.5dL.
Merlot: 3.7g carbohydrates and 120 calories
Pinot Noir: 3.4g carbohydrates and 121 calories
Cabernet: 3.8g carbohydrates and 120 calories

White Wines

Based on 5oz or 1.5dL.
Chardonnay: 3.7g carbohydrates and 118 calories
Riesling: 5.5g carbohydrates and 118 calories
Sparkling whites: 1.5g carbohydrates and 96 calories

Beer

Based on 12oz or 3.5dL.
Miller Lite: 3.1g carbohydrates and 96 calories
Bud select: 3.1g carbohydrates and 99 calories
Coors light: 5.0g carbohydrates and 95 calories
Bud light: 6.6g carbohydrates and 110 calories

Strong alcohol

Based on 2oz or 0.6dL.
Vodka: 0g carbohydrates and 128 calories
Whiskey: 0g carbohydrates and 130 calories
Tequila: 0g carbohydrates and 130 calories

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Ketogenic diet and cholesterol levels

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To better understand if a ketogenic diet and cholesterol has a real impact on each other I have looked into some of the research studies out there.

There are many studies out there that show that a ketogenic diet is bad for your cholesterol and this is something that people tell you when they find out that you are eating according to a ketogenic diet. There however also are many studies that show that a ketogenic diet might not be bad for your cholesterol. The most common thing that people mention when talking about high cholesterol is that you get it from eating a lot of fat. All that fat you eat must be bad for your heart. What people do not consider is the bad fat that is associated with high cholesterol is fat that people on a ketogenic diet usually do not eat (pizza, fries and other bad food).

ketogenic diet and cholesterol

ketogenic diet and cholesterol

In order to give you some perspective on if a ketogenic diet and cholesterol is something that is really associated. The first two studies were made in 1970s and 1980s and followed a small amount of people who ate according to a ketogenic diet for a short while. All subjects in the two studies got a higher cholesterol level during the studies which lasted for a couple of days. These studies are too short to show any real results since you need to stick with a diet for a longer time to see real results and impacts.

The two longer studies about ketogenic diet and cholesterol show a different study. The people in these two studies followed a ketogenic diet for a much longer time (over a year in one of the studies) and all people showed improved cholesterol levels and also a weight loss.

These are however only a low amount of studies and still more research is needed in this area in order to see the full effects of a ketogenic diet and cholesterol levels. Read the full article about ketogenic diet and cholesterol levels over at dietketo.com

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Ketogenic diet foods recommendation

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When on a ketogenic diet you need to know which are the best ketogenic diet foods that you should eat. There are many different lists out on the internet that lists different kind of foods that are good on a ketogenic diet but sometimes it can be hard to know the best ones. This list contains the different keto diet foods that I recommend you to base your diet on.

High protein ketogenic diet foods

Beef of any kind
Fish or seafood of any kind
Pork
Bacon and sausage (make sure you avoid those with added sugar)
Free range poultry, like chicken, turkey, duck and goose
Shellfish like clams, crab, lobster, scallops, shrimp
Eggs

Ketogenic diet foods – Vegetables

ketogenic diet foods

ketogenic diet foods

Alfalfa Sprouts
Asparagus
Bamboo Shoots
Bean Sprouts
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Celery
Chives
Collard Greens
Cucumbers
Dandelion Greens
Garlic
Kale
Leeks
Lettuces and salad greens
Mushrooms
Radishes
Scallions
Snow Peas
Spinach

Ketogenic diet foods – Dairy products

ketogenic diet foods list

ketogenic diet foods list

Whipping cream
Sour cream
Cheese

Ketogenic diet foods – Beverages

Water
Coffee
Tea

Ketogenic diet foods – Fat

Olive Oil
Butter
Mayonnaise
Coconut oil

These are the best ketogenic diet foods that I would recommend you to add to your shopping list. If you are looking for more information I recommend you to continue reading about different keto foods or about how to create a ketogenic diet plan.

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