Keto Food Pyramid (Healthy Keto Foods)

Keto food pyramid. A lot of people are asking about that, so I was gonna explain

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anything. So there's been an escalation in confusion around keto lately so we're

gonna talk about some of the basics and a lot of people are asking about keto

food pyramid and we've been taught to think in terms of a food pyramid and of

course the traditional one that has eight to 11 servings of grain at the

bottom all keto people realize that that is not the way to go but there's still a

lot of confusion so let's look at a few of them so here's one that I found that

I'm not too happy about so right down at the bottom here the the base of this one

is meat and then we get up a little bit and here's eggs and cheese then next one

up is fats then we have a tiny little bit of nuts and non starchy vegetables

and then just a few berries at the top this is what a lot of skeptics think

about the keto pyramid and if if they believe that's what it is I can

understand why they have some reservations the biggest thing is we're

not against meat but it shouldn't be most of what you're eating then when it

comes to egg and cheese we need to realize that's typically good food for

most people but we have to be concerned with the quality even more so the

quality of the fats because right here we see some Hellmann's mayonnaise that

we know is soybean oil highly processed and the biggest problem here that I see

on the entire thing is this tiny tiny little thing of non starchy vegetables

so this should be at the bottom here's another one that I found that I like a

whole lot better because it has healthy oils it emphasizes the quality of oils

it's not the whole thing neither is meat the whole

thing and it talks about fatty fish meat organ meats and eggs and I'm all for

that just make sure that if you eat the fatty meats that it is from grass-fed

organic animals and if you eat the fatty fish that it's wild-caught not

farm-raised healthy fats and oils they're showing coconut they're showing

avocado they're showing butter and olive oil so again grass-fed extra virgin

organic all that good stuff herbs and spices absolutely and then a

big part of the foundation is non starchy vegetables this is what keto is

all about it's whole food it's real food and then up in here not quite so much we

add in some other vegetables that are not just the the super high water

content leafy greens but we include include a few others like eggplant and

onion and and cauliflower and so forth but please observe there are no starches

there are no grains in here and then they go to raw full fat dairy and I

think in my opinion this should be a little even a little bit further down

possibly this could be part of of the healthy fats as long as you get again

the grass-fed the good quality and when it comes to dairy I really want to

emphasize the raw part and the fermented part we do not want pasteurized dairy if

you have the most of the dairy should be either raw milk if that's legal in your

state raw cheese etc but then you could also ferment the dairy so that it has

the yogurt and the sour cream because now the bacteria bring it back to life

it has the enzymes and the lactobacillus that help us digest it and make it

healthy and then they have nuts and seeds and berries up at the top again

berries good food they're alive they're just lots of vital factors and

micronutrients just like the vegetables but a little

bit higher in sugar so depends on where you are on your carbohydrate intake nuts

and seeds I don't think that you have to limit it quite that much but you have to

look at the quality of it I prefer nuts that taste good in their

raw state so my favorites are macadamia pecans and walnuts other nuts that are

hiring carbs like cashew you don't you want to limit those and nuts that you

have to roast in order to taste good such as peanuts you also want to limit

them a little bit more I I really like this food pyramid and if you notice a

lot of the skeptics a lot of the opponents to keto they say how could you

possibly be in favor of a diet that's all meat and fat or all fat and meat and

that's not what I see here okay here I see whole food in very good combinations

there's a lot of possibilities to eat healthy there and this is the key if you

want to turn this into a lifestyle you need to eat whole food you want to stay

away from processed fats you want to stay away from chemicals aspartame and

sucralose have no place in your body if you want to be healthy they don't have

any carbohydrates but that doesn't make them anything you want to eat share the

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