Re: Tina: The modified Atkins diet

January 12, 2012

Joanne,

I thought the goal on Bee's diet was to switch over to fat burning instead

of glucose burning as well, ins't it? She doesn't call it ketosis, just

refers to it as burning fat for fuel I think. Isn't that what the all meat

and fat diet is?

April

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Joanne Ford wrote:

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> Tina

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> The modified Atkins diet is basically the Atkins diet with almost zero

> carbs. the reason the carbs are so low is that with almost no carbs the

> body shifts into ketosis. Ketosis is a totally different pathway to the

> glucose pathway that most folk in the west are using. I use the ketogenic

> pathway daily and never allow my carbs to go above 15g, if I do within a

> very short period of time my illness returns

>

> Not everybody on Bees diet is in ketosis. many continue in the glucose

> pathway but simply eat low carb like bee advises, but this was not enough

> for me, I needed the ketones to feed my brain. I do not know if this would

> be better for you but it is something you might want to consider

>

> Here is a clip that explains some of this

>

> Love Joanne

>

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