Came to say basically what grammar_rabbi said.
If you have type 2 diabetes or know someone, it CAN BE REVERSED WITHOUT MEDICATION.
I have been studying this for years. I strongly recommend you research this and don't take my word for it.
The ketogenic diet seeks to mimic what we would normally ate for thousands of years. We would hunt, gather foods such as fruit and grain in the summertime. Winter meant we would often fast, eat large meals of game and what winter veggies we could scrounge. Basically months of no sugar, then summer months of gorging and fattening up.
Fast forward to now and all we eat is sugar which gets stored as fat for use during the "winter" Bread, pasta, beer all turn to sugar in our bloodstream. Our ancestors had none of that during the winter. Basically our body is in summer mode, storing fat for later, constantly.
When you deploy a keto diet, you're putting your body in to what's called ketosis or rather, that state where your body goes from burning sugar for energy to converting your fat stores to energy. I would tell you how well it works but it's just going to sound like a diet craze.
After you've done your research, head on over and input your data. It will spit out what you need to calculate your food intake.
After that, go ahead and download to your phone. You can barcode scan foods with it, or just manually put them in.
From there you can calculate 2 important metrics, your carb and protein intake. Carbs are sugar so it's obvious you're going to limit them, but protein can also kick your body out of ketosis so you have to keep track of that.
There is a sub on reddit dedicated to the subject but I don't recommend that place to anyone.
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