Dr. Colbert noticed about 20 years ago that incurable, inoperable
cancers began showing up in his office. He didn’t feel
qualified to
treat these cancer patients, but he wanted to help. So, he
went on a
journey to find answers that would allow his patients to not only
survive but thrive.
"I firmly believed the answer was a nutritional one," he
says. The
rapid rise in preventable diseases was not new to Dr.
Colbert. "Part of
the problem had to do with the foods we ate." He studied nutritional
and preventive medicine, anti-aging therapies and integrative cancer
therapy and even visited cancer treatment centers. "There was
no
miracle cure, but I kept coming back to food," he says.
While speaking to the head instructor at his fellowship in integrative
cancer therapy, Dr. Colbert asked him, "Is there any key nutritional
therapy for cancer patients?" He replied, "The only major impactful
thing is the ketogenic diet, but no one can stick to it over the long
term."
Dr. Colbert then made it his goal to find out what made the ketogenic
diet so beneficial. Low carb, high-fat diets have been used
since the
mid 1800s, but when fat was branded as "the greatest killer of our
age," it brought the end of the ketogenic diet as being a viable option
for weight loss. The ketogenic diet was made popular again
with the
Atkins Diet in 1972. Controversy swirled around Atkins'
weight loss
concepts, but recent studies show he was right.
"I have dissected every diet that exists," says Dr.
Colbert. "And
though Atkins was on target with many aspects of his diet, I propose a
ketogenic diet that is different." Dr. Colbert
says:
Too much protein causes the body to convert excess
protein to sugar
Healthy fats are better to eat for the long-term
One way to make sense of the importance of eating healthy fats is to
look at a cell. Our cells are made up of fats. The
fatty acids that
make up our cells consist of 27 percent saturated fats, 55 percent
monounsaturated fats and a small amount (18 percent) polyunsaturated
fats. "Because our cells are made up of fats, the health of
those fats
directly affects our own health,” he says.
HEALTH TRUTHS
Dr. Colbert says there are three health truths we need to know:
Sugar and carbohydrates are the enemies of health and
weight loss (body burns excess fat (stored fat)
when carbs are reduced).
All fats are not bad (healthy fats aid in the fat
burning process). "We have to get over our fat
phobia."
Accept the
rules have changed (understand how the Keto Zone diet works).
The primary goal of the Keto Zone Diet is to reduce the daily
carbohydrate intake to below your body's carbohydrate threshold for
weight gain. This causes your body to burn excess fats rather
than
sugars as its fuel source. By lowering carb intakes, insulin
levels
drop and metabolism eventually shifts into fat-burning mode (ketosis).
Eating foods that are healthy and that speed up the fat-burning process
(in the form of healthy fats and a moderate amount of protein) helps
control your appetite and reach your goal weight. "We all
have to
overcome our fat phobia," says Dr. Colbert.
In the above video, Dr. Colbert shows us how to make:
Breakfast: Eggs and Veggies, page 196
Lunch: Chicken
Salad, page 201
Dinner: Grilled
Salmon and Spinach, page
206
Dessert: Fudgy Brownies, page
209
Concered
about your health with the Keto Diet? Check out the Keto Diet
spoiler on Sugar+Diabetes.html
.