Intro to Keto
There's been a lot of buzz about the ketogenic diet in the past few years. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical about its claims and how it could possibly be sustainable. Admittedly, I have been well-doctrinized by "evidence-based medicine" from my infancy as a doctor and it's hard to be open to deviations to something as stalwart as the USDA Food Pyramid: Tweaks like Mediterranean Diet, Pritikin Diet, Blue Zone Diet, even the Daniel Plan and vegetarianism all hover around the old adage...but to flip the thing completely upside down? Ha! My husband, Dr. Greg, has been reading up on all kinds of age-medicine related topics and he's been throwing around keto for months now. His pressuring me really hit the fan around the holidays and I pretty much told him to take a hike. Keto is life-changing eating! What woman on earth has time to plan for that during the holidays?? And so, the holidays came. We went home to see my family for Christmas and I had already ...