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Ketogenic diet is likely to work fine for glucose greedy cancer forms as well (they can actually test this with a PET), it works for many with T2 diabetes. But since there's little interest both from pharma industry and since governments that are still using outdated not evidence based diet...

If lowering your carbs below 20g per day doesn't get you into ketosis, you probably need to increase your fat intake (which will also help you satiety), and you might need to check your protein intake.

The only way to know for sure if you're in ketosis is measure your blood ketone's in the morning.

When doing proper low carb there's no need for high fibre. Sorry to say but there's a lot of rubbish in the Food hospital program.

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Measuring your blood ketones (in the morning) gives yo a more certain answer whether in nutritional ketosis or not, the urine sticks kan be misguiding (read more on www.dietdoctor.com).

A trick when reading labels is to avoid things over 10g of carbs per 100gram or if you're more strict anything above 5g/100 grams.

To stay in ketosis 0,5 mmol you probably have to have 100 grams of carbs as a ceiling. Have you checked you blodketones in the morning. Reading tips; Volek & Phinney - The art and science of low carbohydrate living.

Great vegetables are cauliflower and white cabbage, fry chopped in small pieces in butter or coconut oil. Asparagus is good, wrap them in bacon and fry in butter. I trying to stay below at least 20g/day and aim for less than 10g/day. Try to reduce slowly and get used to less carbs, but if good...

New on low carb here's a couple of links that can be helpful; http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... hlqvist.se

If using any oil in cooking (butter is just fine), use cold pressed oils. Olive-, rapeseed-, linseed-, coconut- and palmoil (just remember the body cannot use the omega-3 from vegetable oils), they are better for your health.

To increase the amount of fat in you diet more easily try your own version of bulletproof coffee - http://www.bulletproofexec.com/how-to-m ... rning-too/ try mixing good tasting strong coffee with 2tbsp of coconut oil and at least 2 tbsp of unsalted butter 9from grass feed cows) in 2-3 dl of...

Enjoy frying some cauliflower or broccoli in loads of butter yummy or make you own cole slow with mainly white cabbage mix creme fraiche, mayonnaise and french mustard.

A couple other book I would recommend by Volek & Phinney; The art and science of low carbohydrate living + The art and science of low carbohydrate performance.

Low carb is a very wide term. If looking for a ketogenic diet/life style the carbs need to less than 50g/day or in some cases lower.

You might want to consider ground almond or coconut flour for real low carb baking

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Good luck. I think you all will have a great time. I've enclosed a link to very nice bread called oopsies, you can freeze them and either microwave or toast them. http://www.google.com/translate?u=http: ... l=sv&tl=en

If you doing low carb and combine this with increased fat levels, butter is probably the best (especially from grass feed cows) for everyday use, stop using margarines and other spreadable stuff usually to much carbs. The Swedish LCHF movement includes some experienced doctors (including the one...

Here's some really good tips and explanations on LCHF; http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf