Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "Rise In Obesity u0026 Disease: How To Fix Your Diet For Overall Health u0026 Longevity | Dr. Steven Gundry" video.
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I'm not familiar with the keto cereal you mentioned but no one I know would ever think of buying a product like that. It goes contrary to the entire spirit of eating healthy real food and reducing carbs.
Any time new information becomes available there are people who jump on it and try to make money. Unfortunately, that is human nature. It doesn't have anything to do with being keto.
Dr Gundry has some useful information to offer but he is well known for pushing products on his website. Before you give up on the idea of eating this way, please take some time and watch a couple of videos from people who know what they're talking about and aren't trying to make money. For example, Dr Jason Fung.
Dr Fung has a channel here, he has a lot of videos on the topic of eating lower carb and higher healthy fat. Dr Fung does not make money from this or any other products, he doesn't try to sell anything. His explanations and videos are also much better.
The basics of eating this way are to avoid processed foods and reduce the amount of carbs you eat while increasing healthy fats and protein. For example, you might eat an omelette with a couple of eggs, saute some spinach, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms or whatever vegetables you like, have them in an omelette, add cheese and cook it in butter. On the side you could have half an avocado with lemon and salt. You could bake some low carb crackers, I make them with almond flour and seeds, they take the place of bread. When I sit down to eat brunch I have this omelette with vegetables and cheese, the avocado and a couple of crackers. I am not hungry after eating that for 5 or 6 hours.
I guarantee you would be full after this meal too and everything in it is healthy, low carb, inexpensive and real food. Eggs, vegetables, cheese, butter, avocado. This is a real meal and it is keto. No box of cereal, nothing manufactured or produced. You don't have to have eggs If you don't like them, but they are a wonderful healthy food with lots of protein and healthy fat. Even better if you can get pasture raised eggs. There are so many other options. There are some great resources for low carb higher fat meals, I can share some if you're interested.
Watch Dr Jason Fung's videos. You don't have to be in ketosis, reducing your carbs, getting rid of processed food, increasing healthy fats, not eating every couple of hours, some intermittent fasting, all of these things are beneficial. Don't let anyone tell you that you have to buy overpriced products to follow a keto style diet.
Let me know if there's any other information I can help with.
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@Violet316 I would not buy or eat something called keto friendly cereal. It's advertising. The fact that it says keto friendly is an indication that it isn't really keto and who cares? I can put any number of labels on products, that doesn't mean those products are good or useful for the intended purpose. It's like the American Heart Association's imprimatur, you see it on lots of foods but that doesn't mean those foods are good for you.
The tomatoes that I put on my omelette are cherry tomatoes. I take a handful of them, slice them in half and lightly saute them in butter then add some spinach when they are lightly done. Buttery tomatoes are a great compliment to an omelette but obviously if you don't like them, don't eat them!
I'm glad you eat a healthy diet, that's wonderful. I think it's always possible to tweak it and get better. I'm a woman also, younger than you but not tremendously so. What we eat, how often we eat, has a tremendous effect on aging. Whether we feel good, our immunity from transmissible diseases, not getting sick, not getting diseases that are based on inflammation, all of these are the result of what we eat.
I took the time to respond to your comment because you connected a product with the ketogenic or low carb high fat diet when there is no connection and I wanted to be sure that you had good information.
As far as not using cooking fats, that could be a mistake depending on which ones. If you have any of the inflammatory so-called vegetable or seed oils in your house, I would throw them away or use them for industrial purposes like seasoning your cast iron pan if you have one. It depends what you consider cooking fats. It's tremendously important for us especially as we age to get enough good fats in our diet.
Fat in our diet does not cause us to get fat and does not cause heart disease. The six countries study and the seven countries study that came after it were cherry picked and deeply flawed. They are the studies upon which the hypothesis that eating fat causes heart disease was based. This is an important issue area to be aware of, otherwise we fall prey to bad information.
If you're eating avocado, getting a good amount of olive oil, healthy animal fats from wild caught salmon, grass-fed beef, grass-fed butter and dairy, grass fed full fat yogurt (no added sugar) then you're on the right track but if you're avoiding those foods because you think that eating fat is bad or that eating saturated fat will cause you to get sick, then I strongly encourage you to continue learning from reputable sources such as Dr Jamnadas, Dr Jason Fung, Dr Robert Lustig and many others.
It's possible to eat a healthy diet without animal products but it's much harder. The plant based diet people base a lot of what they think to be correct on the studies that have been proven to have been cherry picked and falsified. That doesn't mean they're wrong in everything they say.
There's much more I could say but without the background it might be confusing. The takeaway is to not let yourself be influenced by a product in the store and to spend time learning as much as you can from reputable sources.
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