Donna van Zyl, Specialist Diabetic Dietician explains what a Ketogenic diet is as compared to just a low Carbohydrate diet. She explains why Ketones are produced in a Ketogenic diet.
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Alright, so that's the ketogenic diet for diabetes, and again I think the definition is very important with the ketogenic diet because people often get confused between a low carb and a ketogenic diet. So a ketogenic diet is a very low carbohydrate diet, but there's specific ratios when it comes to the content of fat and protein for this diet. So this diet is high fat with approximately 60 to 85 percent of your total energy coming from fat, 5 to 10 percent from carbohydrate, and approximately 15 percent from protein. So it's a majority high fat diet. What it tries to mimic is not enough glucose in the body, So you will actually produce ketones for fuel, which are produced from your body fat stores. So you are burning your body fat to produce ketones for fuel. So that is the type of diet that is aimed at achieving a ketogenic diet specifically.
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