Status Updates From The Ketogenic Cookbook: Nut...

Why Going Keto Will Heal Your Body

"(U)se crystalline sea salt... (for) a slightly crunchy profile. If you are making a creamy dessert... try... a salt that dissolves well, such as flaked sea salt."

"Salt makes spices more fragrant and citrus more vibrant... salt is a flavor enhancer, not a flavor replacer.

"Many pastry chefs suggest doubling the salt in any classic dessert recipe and cutting back on the sugar.

"(D)on't use iodized table salt in your desserts... you want the salt to complement... not to make it taste of chemicals, which table salt can do."

"The secret to success when baking with erythritol... is to cream the fat first, then add the sweetener. When making traditional baked goods, normally sugar and butter are beaten together; a chemical reaction between the two creates a lot of air. Since erythritol has a different chemical structure than sugar, the butter (or other fat) should be beaten on its own until light and fluffy... after... erythritol added."

Chapter 8
Specialty Ingredients

"propaganda has led us to fear fat and embrace packaged foods"

"processed goods... were created to mimic the military's food rations"

Chapter 7
Cooking Keto

"it fits the way our bodies are designed to work"

"Real food... meant full-fat meat from cows that ate grass on a family farm, wild game, whole eggs from chickens allowed to roam, wild-caught fish, natural fats like butter and lard, some wild vegetation grown in a garden."

Chapter 6
"Keto and Paleo Are a Match Made in Heaven
"Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food - Michael Pollan"

"choose fattier cuts of meat."

"Your brain and other body cells are at least 60 percent fat, so it makes sense that you need to eat more fat to feed your body."

"Nutrient Density Score Ranking
1. Organ meats and oils
2. Herbs and spices
3. Nuts and seeds
4. Cacao
5. Fish and seafood"

The list ranks 22 categories

"(T)he unfortunate reality is that for most of us, exposure to crappy carbage foods like Doritos, Twinkies, and more have distorted our natural response to the carbohydrates i real foods, to the point that those cannot be consumed ad libitum without negative consequences."

"'Fruit is nature's candy.'"

"conventional wisdom is now being exposed as a totally misguided approach that fails to take into account the way humans ate for thousands of years prior to the industrialization of the food supply."

Chapter 5
The Nuts and Bolts of Ketogenic Nutrition

"lowering cholesterol has not resulted in lower rates of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease... they ignored inflammation's critical role"

"(C)onservative estimates find that at least one-fourth of people in the United States... are already suffering from insulin resistance."

Chapter 4
"Why Going Keto Will Heal Your Body
"If diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. If diet is correct, medicine is of no need - Ayurvedic proverb"

"(I)n 1992, when the food pyramid was introduced... we were told to eat more carbohydrates-based foods like whole grains, fruits, and vegetables and less meat and fat. So we shifted our calorie intake dramatically toward carbohydrates, and in the following years there was an astronomic rise in the rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic health problems."

"Its utterly amazing that what most Americans believe is the prudent way to eat healthy is all based on flawed science. But it is."

"The Low Fat Folly
"The mainstream popularity of the ketogenic diet took a major hit when researcher Ansel Keys published... in the late 1950s... advocating eating a low-fat diet....
"It has been well documented that the Seven Countries Study is seriously flawed."

In 1924... Dr. Russell Wilder... coined the term ketogenic diet."

"Published in... 1863... extol eating more fat and restricting carbohydrates... Banting was the recommended diet taught in medical schools until 1959."

Chapter 3
The History of Keto
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. -Thomas Edison
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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again."

Chapter 2
What is the Ketogenic diet?