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Your Healthiest Season Ever With Beyond Keto

AHA Publisher — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:00:13 +0000

Dr. Don Colbert – This could be your healthiest season yet. If you’re ready to ditch the processed, chemical-laden, unhealthy foods and move into a lifestyle that promotes energy, a healthy weight, healthy digestion, and a youthful brain, here it is. It’s time to take the best attributes of Keto Zone® and combine them with the best of the Mediterranean Diet. It’s time to experience Dr. Colbert’s Beyond Keto and live your healthiest season ever. Build Upon the Success of the Keto Zone® Many people have had incredible success with the Keto Zone. As reflected in studies on ketogenic diet results, Keto Zone users have experienced efficient and long-lasting weight loss, healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels, optimal blood sugars, and more (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). The Keto Zone has always gone beyond typical ketogenic diets to promote the healthiest low-carbohydrate and high-fat foods. While other ketogenic diets may allow processed foods or a diet too high in saturated fatty meats, Keto Zone encourages the healthiest fats such as extra virgin olive oil and avocado oil, healthy protein from fish, eggs, poultry, and more, and a plethora of fresh, vibrant vegetables, green powders, and fruit powders. Now, Dr. Colbert has put these optimized Keto Zone recommendations into a book. To engage in your healthiest summer, look no further than Beyond Keto Zone. As promised, you will find an eating lifestyle that marries healthy Keto Zone eating with the Mediterranean Diet. The result? A lifestyle that promotes a healthy weight, high energy, youthful brain function, healthy digestion, and more! An Optimal Approach: Beyond Keto Beyond Keto is the next logical step after Keto Zone. If you’ve had great success with Keto Zone, this book and lifestyle will help you move further in your health journey. If you’re new to Keto Zone and Beyond Keto, it will bring you up to speed for both aspects. It’s simply the best of the Keto Diet combined with the best of the Mediterranean Diet. Beyond Keto: Combining Two Diets for the Best Outcome How can Keto Zone and the Mediterranean diet work together? First, Keto Zone offers initial, efficient benefits with weight loss and improved blood sugars. This phase will produce great results for weight loss, optimal blood sugars, less hunger, and a “reset” for eating (10). For anyone who’s struggled with eating the same unhealthy foods for years, a dramatic change is often the “shake-up” they need to see results. This is part one. While in the keto phase, dieters will experience all the amazing benefits of ketosis. They will produce ketones that will reduce hunger, provide amazing natural energy, support mental focus, and encourage healthy weight loss and maintenance (11). Then, the Mediterranean diet allows for continual healthy-eating success, whole body health, better digestion, and a lifestyle of great health outcomes and enables one to live a long, healthy life. How? It’s highly anti-inflammatory. Inflammation is at the heart of many negative health issues, and any healthy diet should aim to reduce it while achieving long term health goals (12). What’s more, the Mediterranean Diet has been proven over centuries to support full body health. It’s especially beneficial for heart health, optimal blood sugars, gut microbiota, and metabolism (13) because it is based on healthy fats such as extra virgin olive oil and seafood. In addition, it’s full of colorful plant foods like vegetables, beans, peas, lentils, salads and healthy, low- sugared fruits. Typically the Mediterranean Diet also allows for some whole grains. However, Beyond Keto emphasizes the amazing foods in the Mediterranean Diet while limiting any refined carbohydrates and sugars. It’s All About Results Scientific study, experience, and decades of research all point to key approaches for a healthy lifestyle: achieve a healthy weight, maintain a healthy weight, and fight inflammation. This is right in line with Beyond Keto. It promotes: A Healthy Weight: Almost all current negative health conditions are linked to, or exacerbated by, obesity (14). By utilizing healthy ketogenic diet principles, Beyond Keto promotes healthy changes and outcomes as soon as the first two weeks (15)! In addition, the Mediterranean diet component continues to support healthy weight and healthy body composition. Its focus on lean proteins, seafoods, healthy oils, beans, legumes, nuts, seeds, and vegetables provide a wonderful well-balanced, satisfying dietary lifestyle to maintain a healthy weight (16). Energy, Vitality, and Mental Focus: One of the greatest benefits of the ketogenic diet is the production of ketones. Ketones are natural energizing compounds that support healthy mental focus and vitality. The Mediterranean diet also encourages great energy and vitality with the abundant variety of healthy foods. Rather than experiencing the ups and downs of a high-sugar diet, you will enjoy steady, youthful energy from delicious, colorful whole foods. Optimal Blood Sugars and Metabolism: An amazing aspect of both the ketogenic diet and the Mediterranean diet normalized blood sugars. By using both eating styles in Beyond Keto, you’ll remove harmful refined starches while focusing on healthy fats, high fiber beans, peas, lentils, vegetables, lean protein and low glycemic fruits such as berries. Part of the improvement comes from weight loss. The other part comes from a diet that supports healthy metabolism and hormones (17). Healthy Cholesterol, Triglyceride, and Blood Pressure Levels. Both the Keto Zone and Mediterranean diet aspects of Beyond Keto support heart health. First, Beyond Keto promotes a healthy weight, which can help optimize heart health. Next, by choosing the incredibly heart-healthy foods in the Mediterranean diet, you can continue to encourage great heart health In fact, the foods in the Mediterranean diet and Beyond Keto work to support heart health, healthy cholesterol, and achieve whole-body health (18). Natural Unprocessed Foods Full of Antioxidants and Anti-Inflammatory Compounds. One of the worst dietary habits plaguing humans worldwide is the consumption of ultra-processed foods. In fact, researchers have found that ultra-processed foods are linked to most modern health conditions and even overall risk of death (19)! Thankfully, you’ll eat a healthy, high antioxidant and anti-inflammatory foods rather than ultra-processed ones (20). Healthy Gut Microbiota. Amazingly, Beyond Keto combines Keto Zone and Mediterranean foods to support gut health! This is great news for the millions of people who suffer from less-than-optimal gut function. In fact, studies have found the Mediterranean diet specifically improves gut microbiota and its associated metabolism functions. The diet’s prebiotics from healthy fibers along with healthy fats and polyphenols support gut health, hormone balance, and metabolism (21). Bottom Line: Experience Your Healthiest Summer It’s not just a diet. You can learn to live a healthy lifestyle that promotes healthy weight, energy, mental focus, reduced inflammation, and vitality! Don’t wait. Get started today with Dr. Colbert’s Beyond Keto and make this next season your best one yet! To read the original article click here.

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From Adequate Nutrition to Optimum Nutrition

The AHA! Team — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 07:00:00 +0000

Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – We need to shift from the concept of merely getting adequate nutrition to getting optimal nutrition. That is, we shouldn’t just aim to avoid scurvy, but we should promote health and minimize our risk of developing degenerative diseases. Research in human nutrition over the past four decades has led to many discoveries as well as a comprehensive understanding of the exact mechanisms behind how food nutrients affect our bodies. As I discuss in my video Reductionism and the Deficiency Mentality, however, the “prevalence of epidemics of diet-related chronic diseases, especially obesity, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers, dramatically increases worldwide each year.” Why hasn’t all this intricate knowledge translated into improvements in public health? Perhaps it has to do with our entire philosophy of nutrition called reductionism, where everything is broken down into its constituent parts; food is reduced to a collection of single compounds with supposed single effects. “The reductionist approach has traditionally been and continues today as the dominant approach in nutrition research.” For example, did you know that mechanistically, there’s a chemical in ginger root that down-regulates phorbol myristate acetate-induced phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and JNK MAP kinases? That’s actually pretty cool, but not while millions of people continue to die of diet-related disease. We already know that three quarters of chronic disease riskâ€“â€“diabetes, heart attacks, stroke, and cancerâ€”can be eliminated if everyone followed four simple practices: not smoking, not being obese, getting a half hour of exercise a day, and eating a healthier diet, defined as more fruits, veggies, and whole grains, and less meat. Think what that could mean in terms of the human costs. We already know enough to save millions of lives. So, shouldn’t our efforts be spent implementing these changes before another dollar is spent on research such as figuring out whether there is some grape skin extract that can lower cholesterol in zebra fish or even trying to find out whether there are whole foods that can do the same? Why spend taxpayer dollars clogging the arteries of striped minnows by feeding them a high cholesterol diet to see whether hawthorn leaves and flowers have the potential to help? Even if they did and even if it worked in people, too, wouldn’t it be better to simply not clog our arteries in the first place? This dramatic drop in risk and increase in healthy life years through preventive nutrition need not involve superfoods or herbal extracts or fancy nutritional supplementsâ€”just healthier eating. When Hippocrates supposedly said, “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food,” he “did not mean that foods are drugs, but rather, that the best way to remain in good health is to maintain a healthy diet.” (Note: Hippocrates probably never actually said thatâ€”but it’s a great sentiment anyways!) The historical attitude of the field of nutrition, however, may be best summed up by the phrase, “Eat what you want after you eat what you should.” In other words, eat whatever you want as long as you get your vitamins and minerals. This mindset is epitomized by breakfast cereals, which often provide double-digit vitamins and minerals. But the road to health is not paved with Coke plus vitamins and minerals. This reductionistic attitude “is good for the food industry but not actually good for human health.” Why not? Well, if food is good only for a few nutrients, then you can get away with selling vitamin-fortified Twinkies. We need to shift from the concept of merely getting adequate nutrition to getting optimal nutrition. That is, we shouldn’t just aim to avoid scurvy, but we should promote health and minimize our risk of developing degenerative diseases. Bringing things down to their molecular components works for drug development, for example, discovering all the vitamins and curing deficiency diseases. In the field of nutrition, “[h]owever, the reductionist approach is beginning to reach its limits.” We discovered all the vitamins more than a half-century ago. When is the last time you heard of someone coming down with scurvy, pellagra, or kwashiorkor, the classic deficiency syndromes? What about the diseases of dietary excess: heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension? Ever heard of anyone with any of those? Of course we have. Yet we continue to have this deficiency mindset when it comes to nutrition. When someone tries to reduce their consumption of meat, why is “where are you going to get your protein?” the first question they get asked, rather than “if you start eating like that, where are you going to get your heart disease?” The same deficiency mindset led to the emergence of a multibillion-dollar supplement industry. What about a daily multivitamin just “as ‘insurance’ against nutrient deficiency?” Better insurance would be just to eat healthy food. This article has been modified. To read the original article click here. For more articles by Dr. Greger click here.

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