What Is the Keto Diet?

 

The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that forces your body into an alternate metabolic state called ketosis. In this state, the brain burns fat for energy instead of glucose from carbohydrates. When you're in ketosis and on a low-carb diet like this one, your body produces ketones as byproducts of burning fat for fuel instead of carbs. These molecules can be measured in blood or urine to determine whether someone has been on the right track with their weight loss efforts!

The benefits of following such diets are many: they help curb cravings; they provide more satiation (meaning less hunger); they may improve markers associated with cardiovascular health (such as cholesterol); they reduce inflammation throughout the body; and finally—and perhaps most importantly—they help people lose weight by making them feel full after eating only small amounts of food at once!