What Is Ketosis Diets

A diet that is low in carbohydrates forces the liver to turn body fat in into fatty acids which are used to provide energy to the body. A by-product of the burning of fatty acids into energy are ketone bodies. That is why a low carbohydrate diet is also called a ketosis diet.

Before you embark on such a diet, it is a good idea to consult your physician. There are side effects to eating low carbohydrate diets such as feelings of lethargy, headaches, depression and some forms of body pains. Once you are given the green light, you will be surprised by how simple and yet how easy it is to maintain ketosis diets.

Ketosis diets are just low carbohydrate diets. This is not dieting in the colloquial sense since you are allowed to eat as much as you want, even fatty foods are encouraged, as long as the percentage of carbohydrate in the diet is significantly lower, that is, around 20 percent of daily caloric intake.

The amount of fatty food is what keeps the body in a state of ketosis. Most food groups are allowed including vegetables and fruits. But the food groups that should dominate in a low-carb diet are meats, poultry and fish. High carbohydrate foods such as bread, pasta, rice and other starchy foods are not allowed

Some experts argue that ketosis diets must have been what humans are really used to because for thousands of years, most humans were meat eaters with very low intakes of carbohydrates. It was only in the advent of agriculture that a significant rise of carbohydrate intake tool place in our diets, but it is only after the second half of the 20th century where our diet radically departed from what our ancestors have been used to for thousands of years.

So to improve metabolism, a low carb, or ketosis diet, may just be the answer. With a gradual decrease in carb intake and an increase in fat burning, this diet may just be the solution for those who have difficulty in increasing their metabolism.