Keto Quick Start

Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet
It seems like keto is all the rage these days. But there is a great deal of
misinformation out there about what exactly the ketogenic diet is and how to
adhere to it.
Simply put, it is a diet of low carbohydrates, moderate protein and high fat. That
last part scares some people, but it will all make sense in a moment.
More and more research is showing that fat does not make us fat. In fact, the
primary culprit of our obesity epidemic is sugar. Not fat.
“But I don’t eat sweets.”
Sugar isn’t always found in sweets. It is anything that your body turns into
glucose during the digestion and absorption process. In a word, carbohydrates.
This includes:
• Bread
• Potatoes (and most root vegetables)
• Pasta
• Grains
• Candy
• Fruit
Each of these foods contains varying amounts of carbohydrates, which your
body converts into glucose (sugar) during digestion. In a healthy person who is
at their ideal weight and fitness level, this glucose supplies energy that they
then burn off.
However, as we become a more sedentary society, we consume more and
more sugar, but burn less and less of the resulting glucose.
When we don’t burn off the glucose within a certain amount of time, our body,
rather than get rid of that extra sugar, stores it as fat. Historically, this allowed
our ancestors to have energy reserves for when food was scarce. Today,