The Coconut Ketogenic Diet: Supercharge Your Metabolism, Revitalize Thyroid Function, and Lose Excess Weight

by Bruce Fife Nd

You can enjoy eating rich, full-fat foods and lose weight without counting calories or suffering from hunger. The secret is a high-fat, ketogenic diet. Our bodies need fat. It’s necessary for optimal health. It’s also necessary in order to lose weight safely and naturally. Low-fat diets have been heavily promoted for the past three decades, and as a result we are fatter now than ever before. Obviously, there is something wrong with the low-fat approach to weight loss. There is a better solution to the obesity epidemic, and that solution is The Coconut Ketogenic Diet. This book exposes many common myths and misconceptions about fats and weight loss and explains why low-fat diets don’t work. It also reveals new, cutting-edge research on one of the world’s most exciting weight loss aids—coconut oil—and how you can use it to power up your metabolism, boost your energy, improve thyroid function, and lose unwanted weight. This revolutionary weight loss program is designed to keep you both slim and healthy using wholesome, natural foods, and the most health-promoting fats. It has proven successful in helping those suffering from obesity, diabetes, heart and circulatory problems, low thyroid function, chronic fatigue, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and many other conditions.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2014

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

This weight loss plan actually encourages the consumption of fat on a daily basis.

The low fat or low calorie diet that you are on is the reason why your weight loss has been slow, or non-existent. Fat is an essential nutrient; the human body needs a certain amount of it every day. It helps to slow down food in your digestive system so that it can be absorbed. Besides, food producers will add chemicals to make up for the fat or calories that have been removed, chemicals that are even less healthy than fat.

Your whole thyroid system may be malfunctioning, not just your thyroid gland, which the usual thyroid blood test may not pick up. The problem may be an iodine deficiency, or chemicals like fluorine, chlorine and bromine that are in your tap water. Take your temperature several times during the day. If it is chronically more than 0.3 degrees low, that may indicate a thyroid or metabolism problem. How can a person stimulate their metabolism? Drink lots of water, get regular exercise and exposure to sunlight, eat a wholesome diet, consume coconut oil and add cayenne pepper to the diet.

What about this coconut ketogenic diet? The two most important parts of it are to greatly reduce, or eliminate, your consumption of carbohydrates, and have three tablespoons of coconut oil with each meal. If your body tells you to start with one tablespoon per meal and work your way up from there, that's fine. The book has a list of the carbohydrate content in fruits, vegetables and breads, along with a chart showing desired body weight. The explains why coconut oil (also known as medium chain triglycerides) are so healthy.

This is an excellent book. It is not the usual "diet," where the dieter is limited to certain foods. If all a person can do is greatly reduce their carbohydrate consumption, and do a lot more exercising, without doing anything else, that can only help. This book is recommended for everyone, with and without a weight problem.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve read most of Bruce Fife’s books and feel this is his best work yet. It is the culmination of what he has learned so far in the area of human nutrition and the benefits of coconut oil in the diet. This is not a diet book, but it can help you lose weight and guide you in your personal quest for better health. For years Fife has encouraged using coconut oil 1-3 tablespoons per day for ailments such as Arthritis, dental problems and even Alzheimer's. This book steps it up with 3 tablespoons 3x per day if you have a lot of weight to lose or just want better health. I, like the author, cannot take that much in the evening and expect to sleep all night. Also since I am a long time consumer of coconut oil without much weight to lose I was surprised at the detoxing effect of that much oil.Too much too fast I suspect. I have decided to raise my oil more slowly and have found I am still slowly losing the 15 lbs. I needed to lose. I also have been plagued with insomnia off and on since eating low carb many years now but while following the guidance of this book I find it is mostly gone. Being close to 70 years I don’t expect to sleep more than 6 or 7 hours at night. Read the book, take your time, it’s not a page turner but is consistently helpful and interesting and worth much mire than the Kindle price of the digital copy.

[Deborah · Rating 2 out of 5]

tons and tons if info, very very hard to pull out the diet, wanted to just know what to eat...too much filler, got bored

[Dean A. Hamilton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super informative and spells things out clearly

So other than repeating himself a little more often than he should, some of that being filler I think for the book, Dr fife's insight into everything from metabolic processes to how to overcome so many things through this diet or super helpful.

I would strongly recommend this for anyone looking to learn about how the body processes different nutrients, as well as how and why we gain weight, as well as how we're able to eliminate additional weight and balance out our health. I've been following his program outlined in this book for 2 months now and I've never felt better. This isn't just a ketogenic book, or a book about how to do the keto diet. This is an educational, informational manual on how your body works and what you can do to supercharge your health.

[Jan López]

Another Bruce Fife's fabulous teaching material, on to his third book now. Love his content !

[Mary Job · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read maket it a good and great

[Liebes Buch · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dieses Buch hat mich sehr interessiert, weil es vom gesundheitlichen Nutzen der Kokosnuss handelt. Sogar die Mayo Klinik behandelt Krankheiten mit Kokosnuss, weshalb ich glaube, dass da was dran ist.
Fife erklärt die verschiedenen Theorien über Fette und erklärt auch alle Typen von Fett, deren Veränderung durch Bearbeitung und die Studien zu Cholesterin. Er erzählt die Geschichte eines Arztes, der begann, Fette selber zu untersuchen, nachdem er in den USA brav fettarm gegessen und immer dicker geworden war und nach einem Italienurlaub, wo alles in Fett schwamm, abgenommen hatte. Dann weist er auf die Wirkung von Zucker, Zuckeraustauschstoffen und Kohlenhydraten hin, die er nachteilig bewertet. So basiert seine Diät auf Fett und schränkt Kohlenhydrate und Zucker ein. Der Körper soll sich daran gewöhnen, Energie aus Fett statt aus Kohlenhydraten zu gewinnen. Dabei konzentriert er sich auf Kokosnussfett, das eine besondere Fettsorte beinhaltet und zudem bein Erhitzen nicht schädlich wird. Seiner Meinung nach, erzielen Menschen schon schnelle Erfolge, wenn sie ihre Ernährung mit Kokosnuss anreichern. Aber er behandelt auch krankhaft Übergewichtige Patienten, bei denen keine Diät hilft. Wie die Mayo Klinik vertritt auch er die Meinung, dass Kokosnuss eine heilende Wirkung auf den Schilddrüsenstoffwechsel hat. So weit so gut.
Ein Teil des Buches befasst sich jedoch mit Jod und davor würde ich den Leser warnen. Hier hat Fife extreme Ansichten. Er löst Jod aus der Gruppe der Spurenelemente und setzt dem Jodkonsum praktisch keine Grenzen. Werte, die in 2 Tagen die Menge einer Schilddrüsenblockade im Falle eines GAUs überschreiten, hält er für unbedenklich und gesund. Den Mikrogrammbereich verlässt er völlig und konsumiert Jod im mehrstelligen Milligrammbereich. Das halte ich für gefährlich, zumal man an Jod sterben kann. Studien über Schäden durch zu viel Jod deutet er kess um. Je mehr Jod, desto besser... von diesem Teil des Buches möchte ich mich ausdrücklich distanzieren. Ich möchte mit meiner Rezension niemanden zu Jodexperimenten ermutigen!!!!! Fife neigt zu extremen Ansichten und extremen Dosierungen. Ansonsten beschreibt er die Fette interessant und geht auch auf Probleme der Schilddrüsengesunheit ein wie Schadestoffe, die die Schilddrüse hemmen, die Störung der Umwandlung von T4 in T3 und die Auswirkungen Störungen der Körpertemperatur. Deswegen finde ich das Buch teilweise sehr interessant und aber teilweise auch haarsträubend gefährlich. Der Verlag hat Fifes Jodempfehlungen auch immer mit Warnhinweisen versehen. Diese würde ich sehr ernst nehmen. Fife weiss auch, dass durch mangelnde Deklarationspflicht der Verbraucher nicht einschätzen kann, ob er viel oder wenig Jod isst. Einen Test gibt es dazu nicht wirklich. Der Test, den Fife beschreibt, basiert auf der probeweisen Einnahme einer grossen Jodmenge. Aus der Reaktion des Körpers schliesst er auf den Jodstatus. Bloss ist dieser Test an sich meiner Meinung nach schon gefährlich und für Kranke ausgeschlossen. Ich bin nun überfordert, was ich von dem Buch halten soll. Mit der Kokosnuss kann Fife nicht völlig danebenliegen, da ich die Mayo Klinik für seriös halte. Von Jod hingegen würde ich die Finger lassen. Deutschland jodiert schon die meisten Lebensmittel und eine Schilddrüsenblockade dient dem Katastrophenschutz, nicht der Gesundheit! Ich habe von Kokosfett nicht zugenommen und tatsächlich eine bessere Körpertemperatur erreicht, Schluss mit den kalten Füssen. Deutsche Ausgabe)

[Diane Fogel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of information, much to much to digest in one reading. Got boring and had to put it down to really absorb all the information. But I will revisit this book at a later date.
I had to return It to the library before, I could get through all the notes I wanted to take from it as it was on reserve for another person. Its on my list of books to check out again.
Would have liked more information on diet and recipe suggestions though.

[Darlene Hull · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was interesting, as I have been successfully following Atkins. This is basically Atkins with a lot of coconut oil added in.