Annette Bosworth > Quotes

“Eat a slice of bread and add about 20 grams of carbohydrates or 5 heaping teaspoons of sugar to your bloodstream. That means one of those spoons of sugar found in that slice of bread will circulate into the bloodstream as glucose, but evil insulin will whip the other four spoons of sugar into storage pockets throughout your body.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“Changing behavior is hard. Inspiration grows in support groups. Setback or stall — be brave enough to try again. Get into the habit of forgiving yourself. Give yourself the gentle grace you need.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“Fruits have been sold to all of us as healthy and nourishing. The truth is the opposite. We’ve been sold a bill of goods. Fruits are filled with sugary carbohydrates.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“Ketosis is not a diet. It is a state of chemistry in your blood; it's measurable. This state of chemistry is measurable — I can’t say this enough. Don’t guess about your chemistry, measure it.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“Don't begin your ketogenic journey with a shopping spree for food. Instead, start with a garbage can. Remove sweet, carb-filled temptations and clean out your cupboards.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“To empty your body’s fat storage cells, stop making insulin. How do you stop producing insulin? Stop eating carbohydrates.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“Before insulin injections became available, low carbohydrate diets kept Type 1 diabetics alive.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“On week three of testing, David ran out of blood strips. A week went by before replacement strips arrived. He noticed temptations creeping into his thoughts as his food choices relaxed. Not checking opened the space to deny that a problem existed. Without testing, his accountability faded, and temptations grew.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“The higher their insulin levels, the greater their chances of heart attack, stroke, or sudden death. The greater the insulin, the higher the problems.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“Starting the ketogenic diet means you need to count carbs. To succeed, you must invest time to gain knowledge about the foods you eat.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“Won’t this high fat diet clog my arteries and give me a heart attack?” The answer is NO. This is a nutritional myth that thankfully is starting to come to light. For years, we’ve known that high insulin levels were causing lots of troubles with cholesterol, heart disease, and brain disease. Fortunately, over the last several years, more and more experts have shown that saturated fats are not the culprit. Sticky, inflamed platelets are.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“Take a bowl of rice. A little over a cup of rice contains 15 teaspoons of sugar. That’s 60 grams of carbohydrates in it. Switch to a bowl of pasta, and you have 20 teaspoons of sugar or 80 grams of carbohydrates.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“Stevia’s sweetness soars 200 to 350 times sweeter than cane sugar. Sprinkle a tiny bit onto your tongue and watch your brain crackle, spark, and light up with dopamine. Simultaneously, as the pleasure centers of your brain are being distracted and hijacked by the sweetness, your pancreas will squirt insulin.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“Cholesterol repairs our bodies and brains. It isn’t the curse word associated with early, untimely funerals. This vital hormone mends our skin, chases away brain fog, and furnishes strings of carbons that turn into growth hormone, cortisol, testosterone, progesterone, and estrogen. Cholesterol renders our energy.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“A high fat low carb diet lowers both inflammation and blood cholesterol levels. Reread that sentence again. It’s worth repeating. A high fat low carb diet lowers both inflammation and blood cholesterol levels.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“If you have bottles of sunflower, canola, or peanut oils in your cupboard, use them to lubricate equipment around the house. Don’t swallow them. They are hazardous to your health.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“That’s it. If you eat 1000 calories in a day and you want to lose weight, you must use more than the 1000 calories you consumed. Clear enough, right? Unfortunately, it’s wrong. Weight loss doesn’t work this way. For over two decades, I told many patients, “Eat less. Exercise more. That’s how you lose weight.” My advice was wrong. This equation is flat out wrong.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“Each sugar molecule attracted dozens of water molecules to stay circulating in his system. In many ways, abundant sugar acted like tiny sponges trapping water inside David’s blood. Glucose absorbed toxic amounts of fluid and kept it from leaving his circulation. This excess fluid, called inflammation, injured the tissues as the fluid stretched each cell to its limits. Failure to reduce David’s sugar not only expanded the volume of liquid pumping through his veins, it inflamed every cell that used sugar.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“A calorie-reduced diet would be more accurately called a torture diet. No matter its name, it triggers your chemistry to store fat. This low calorie setting takes your food and squirrels it away into cells designated to store energy. If you want a body chemistry that locks your energy efficiently into your fat cells, go on a reduced calorie diet. Every study regarding reduced calorie diets has proven this over and over again.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“Is it real sugar? Is it fake sugar? Your brain doesn’t really care. Once the chemical lands on your tongue, dopamine relieves the craving.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“Elevated blood sugars populated David’s brain the same way they swamped his blood. His increased blood sugar correlated with increasing glucose within his brain. David’s mind became toxic from that increased amount of sugar sponged with water. Plumped up thinking cells were bogged down with too much glucose and the accompanying fluid. Swollen brain cells clouded David’s thinking, much like a concussion. He couldn’t focus as the electrical messages short-circuited in this swamp of sugar-water. His thoughts drifted away, and sometimes his speech slurred. If David recruited most of his brain cells into this toxicity, he would have slipped into a coma and died. It’s true!”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“His keto-chemistry mimicked a fasted state before he ever started his fast. David could reach the same Dr. Boz Ratio in the 40 hours of fasting as the healthy lean subjects achieved in 72 hours.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“Keep your insulin low and allow bacon fat to convert into fat-based hormones, cholesterol, and ketones. Only when you turn on the insulin will your saturated fats turn on you - they become the enemy when bathed in insulin. Eat less than 20 carbs per day while swallowing saturated fats, and they are the good guys.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“Proteins build up in a damaged brain. This damaged brain leads to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The beginning of these problems don't start with your genetics; they start with inflammation.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“The adage that says "You fight fire with fire,” is misleading—you fight fire with water. But every firefighter knows there is truth in the statement. Regarding weight loss, replace the word “fire” with fat! “You fight fat with fat!”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“Insulin signaled David’s body to grow, and I mean growth of any kind. This powerful hormone grew David’s fat cells, at the same time his skin tags, moles, and extra liver cells grew. If David had any cancer cells hiding in his body, insulin stimulated them to grow too. Insulin also stimulated plaque growth in David’s brain, slowed his immune system, and increased inflammation of the kind that led to hardening of his arteries.”
― Annette Bosworth, ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

“That is my goal: a healthy life. Not a sprint to ketone positive urine tests. The key to sustainability is the LONG GAME.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“What’s going on here? Lipophobia: the fear of fat. The media won this game. They successfully frightened us from enjoying fat. I correct this thinking by educating patients that we are solving a human biochemistry puzzle. Our body’s chemistry controls weight loss. The most important piece in the puzzle is insulin. Keep insulin down, and weight loss happens.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“Insulin is the hormone your body uses to protect from toxic sugar levels and the associated swelling.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey

“Without sugar, you experience a dopamine 'withdrawal' state-you feel crabby, irritable, and even depressed.”
― Annette Bosworth, Anyway You Can: Doctor Bosworth Shares Her Mom's Cancer Journey