Health & Nutrition

Fight fat with fat? I thought you were supposed to avoid fats? Thats why we have all of these healthy "Fat Free" and "Low Fat" foods on the market. So eating foods high in fats must surely cause us to gain fat right? Wrong. More and more research is showing the massive amount of benefits from a high fat, low carbohydrate based diet. Including reversing high blood sugar, anti-aging benefits , loosing body fat, and even the resolution of longstanding schizophrenic symptoms. Yes it seems very contradictory to try to burn fat, and loose weight by consuming high amounts of fat in our diets. This is based on the old ideology that dietary fats are bad for us. Coming from a review published in 1967 in the New England Journal of Medicine by three Harvard Scientists. This review downplayed the link between sugar and heart disease , and promoted saturated fat as the leading factor. We now know this to be false, and in fact is bad science. The New York Times wrote ...

10% OFF with Discount Code: Brando at Checkout Click Here for Brando's Podcast on Keto, Ketosis, and the Ketogenic Diet iTunes , Google Play , SoundCloud   Everyone has heard about the many miracles of Coconut Oil . From anti-bacterial, to anti-aging, coconut oil has a wide variety of benefits, and uses. One of the main benefits from coconut oil is that it contains MCT's or Medium Chain Triglycerides .  http://realfoodexpeditors.com/blog1/?page_id=5 MCT 's are Medium chain fatty acids that your body can convert to energy faster than more common Long Chain Triglycerides. These fatty acids also aid in fat burning weight loss. This is done by increasing Ketone Production in the body. http://www.slideshare.net/namarta28/ketosis What are Ketones ? Our bodies normally run on glucose, that’s produced when the body breaks down carbohydrates. When your body doesn’t have enough glucose, or insulin to use the glucose, your body starts breaking down fats for ene...