The HUGE Mistake Counting Carbs on Keto (Ketogenic Diet)

All you need to do is focus on lowering your carbs, right? Wrong.

On the keto diet, you reduce your carbs to below 50 grams. We do this because carbs increase insulin, and insulin blocks ketosis. If you are not in ketosis, you are not doing the Ketogenic diet correctly and you will not loose weight. But carbs are not the only factor to consider.

Part Two – Three Hidden Ways Wheat Makes You Fat

I know we love our bread, but did you know….

There are three major hidden reasons that wheat products, not just gluten (along with sugar in all its forms) is a major contributor to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, depression and so many other modern ills.

To learn more about this subject please read Part One – Three Hidden Ways Wheat Makes You Fat https://2healthyhabits.wordpress.com/2022/10/14/part-one-three-hidden-ways-wheat-makes-you-fat/#more-2862

Read this Post to the end to learn how to How to Beat the Wheat, and Lose the Weight.

Part One – Three Hidden Ways Wheat Makes You Fat

I know we love our bread, but did you know….

There are three major hidden reasons that wheat products, not just gluten (along with sugar in all its forms) is a major contributor to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, depression and so many other modern ills.

This is why there are now 30 % more obese than undernourished in the world, and why chronic lifestyle and dietary driven disease kills more than twice as many people as infectious disease globally.

Sadly, this tsunami of chronic illness is increasingly caused by eating our beloved diet staple, bread, the staff of life, and all the wheat products hidden in everything from soups to vodka to lipstick to envelope adhesive.

What Sugar Does to Your Arteries

Probably the biggest damage from high amounts of sugar in the blood, with a diabetic, is done to your vascular system.

There are two types of damage to you vascular system:

1. the macro vascular system, with the large vessels and
2. the micro vascular system with small capillaries.

In the large vessels there is the coronary artery that supplies the heart muscle and there are peripheral arteries throughout body. There is also the micro vascular system that goes to the retina of the eye or the kidney.