In the last video, we learned that our bodies are much happier, and we are healthier if our cells burn fat instead of sugar. Generally recommendations are that we can put our body in ketosis if we eat the food groups in the following proportions 50% from fat 30% from protein, and 20% from carbohydrates. These numbers aren't fixed, and they will fluctuate for each individual depending on their metabolism. The normal Western diet has the following recommended proportions 50% from carbohydrates to 80% from protein and just 20% or less from fat. There's obviously a big difference here, with the standard Western diet, given almost exactly the opposite proportions to those required for maximum health. So how did this occur?

In the 70s, many Western countries adopted nutritional guidelines. In these guidelines, it was proposed to eat certain foods in these proportions. The proportions that we see on the slide, which are really exactly opposite to that required for maximum health. On the left, we have the standard food pyramid recommended by the West. This model very quickly became the mainstay of the dogma surrounding nutrition. A dogma is a prevailing accepted truth.

Is thought to be self evident, and he's never really questioned. The first two levels are massively loaded with sugar for carbohydrates in bread, cereals, potatoes, all metabolized into sugar. Recent research is showing us that overconsumption of sugar is directly responsible for illnesses, such as diabetes, and cancer. In effect, we are gradually poisoning ourselves from an early age, promoting addictions to foods that make us obese and create all kinds of illness. It's more correct to call these illnesses symptoms because they are symptoms of something wrong with our body, the way that it's working. And the body is compensating the best way that it can by producing this The food pyramid for ketosis is very different, and reflects the recommended portions of the food groups when following the keto diet.

You may have heard of the keto diet, which is primarily promoted for profit as a weight loss regime. It does indeed promote weight loss, but its effect on the human body goes far beyond the physically visible. The End effect of the diet is that the body's cells burn predominantly fat, which doesn't produce waste products, like sugar burning does. waste products destroy mitochondria, promote inflammation and cause disease. You need to become a food detective in fact, and become more aware of what it says on the labels and what is inside the foods that we see on the supermarket. shelves.

Obviously, we need to steer clear of meat with hormones, plants with insecticide sprays. But there are also hidden dangers in many of the so called healthy food packages that we buy every single day. biggest part of the equation is to drastically reduce sugars and carbs. Carbohydrates metabolized into sugar, and overconsumption of either will ensure that our cells never burn fat, even when it's available. A vast amount of so called healthy food is filled with carbohydrates and sugars.