Keto is short for Ketogenic diet, which is based upon the principle of keeping your body in a constant state of ketosis.
What’s Ketosis?
Your body runs on the energy you give it through the food you eat (duh). Your body will either run on sugar energy or fat energy. If you burn through your body’s sugar energy supply, it will switch to burning fat instead. When your body burns fat for energy, you’re in ketosis. That’s pretty much it in a nutshell.
There are plenty of studies that show that the body runs cleaner on fat than it does on sugar (glucose/gycogen). It also reportedly helps and sometimes eliminates the issues that come with having excess sugar in your system (weight gain, diabetes, allergies, development of other illness such as autoimmune diseases). Many people lose weight this way (frequently it’s rapidly) and use this diet as a weight loss tool, but there are a plethora of other health benefits reported too.
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