My name is Lyle McDonald, I'm an exercise physiologist and research nerd. I became interested in low-carbohydrate diets over 10 years ago when I used one myself to lose fat. However, as I delved more into them, I realized that most books written about low-carbohydrate (aka ketogenic) diets were miserably flawed. Either they presented the diet as a magic, 'better than sex and sunshine', or they presented it as a death warrant. But, in my experience, the truth of the matter is usually between those two extremes so I set out to determine for myself what the research actually said about low-carbohydrate diets. It took me over two years of research and writing, culminating in this, my first book.
The Ketogenic Diet is the first and only book to examine in-depth the scientific evidence regarding low-carbohydrate/ketogenic diets. At 325 pages and containing over 600 scientific references, this will be your complete reference for ketogenic diets.
You'll learn:
The details of human fuel utilziation and how they change on a ketogenic diet
- How the body adapts to ketosis, including a detailed discussion of protein sparing
- How the ketogenic diet affects body composition
- The effect of ketosis on all tissues in the body
- How the ketogenic diet affects cholesterol levels
- How to optimize the ketogenic diet for different goals such a fat loss, bodybuilding or endurance training
- The basics of exercise physiology for aerobic, interval and weight training
- How different types of exercise affects fat loss
I want to make it very clear that the ketogenic diet is meant as a reference manual for low-carbohdyrate diets; it is unlike any other book on low-carbohdyrate diets that you have ever read or seen. It doesn't contain food lists or recipes, it isn't filled with a lot of hype over how great low-carbohydrate dieting is; nor is it filled with how bad for you the diet it. Rather, it is an objective scientific examination of the topic of low-carbohydrate dieting. However, it's not a book filled with nothing but dry theory.
The Ketogenic Diet includes:
- Two modified ketogenic diets that include carbohydrates (to support high intensity training) while still allowing the adaptations to ketosis to occur
- Basic endurance training guidelines, including interval training
- How to weight train as a beginner, intermediate or advanced trainee
- How to use the ketogenic diet to prepare for a bodybuilding contest
- What supplements are useful during the different phases of a ketogenic diet
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