Passage A What is the Keto Diet? (1) Carbohydrates are substances in foods such as sugar, brend, and potatoes that provide your body with heat and energy. Most tissues in the human body prefer using glucose (a type of sugar) from carbohydrates for energy. (2) Ketosis is the condition in which your body uses fat, instead of carbohydrates, to create the energy it needs to live and work properly. The keto diet aims to cause ketosis through careful changes to the amount of carbohydrates, protein, and fat you eat in order to help your body use fat for energy so you lose weight. The food ingredient guidelines (rules) for the keto diet look something like this: • Fat: 65-90% • Protein: 10-30% • Carbohydrates: less than 5% (3) In comparison to the average diet, keto diets have much more healthy fat, with a medium amount of protein and almost no carbohydrates. Only a very small amount of natural sugars are allowed. Foods you can eat on a keto diet include: • Fish • Vegetables • Cheese • Meat • Berries • Eggs • Butter • Healthy oils (coconut, avocado, olive) • Dark chocolate (4) The keto diet has become very popular recently because people have found that it helps them lose weight quickly. Many people with diseases such as diabetes like it because it helps them control blood sugar. (5) Most people follow the keto diet just to lose weight. This separates it from other popular diets such as paleo or vegetarian diets, which most people choose to follow based on their beliefs about eating natural foods, enhancing health condition, and respecting the environment. Passage B: The Paleo Diet (1) The “paleo” (meaning “old” or “ancient”) diet is a diet based on the idea that eating foods that were available to early humans will help improve health. So, if you change your style of eating to be like that of early or ancient humans, you will better support your body natural biological needs, improving your general health and happiness. (2) Paleo promotes a diet high in protein and healthy fat, and often includes a large amount of red meat. The diet removes common foods such as grains (for example rice, oats, and corn), peanuts and many beans, added sugar and most dairy products. People following paleo diets eat “clean”, which means they eat only fresh, natural foods. Nothing artificial. or man-made is allowed. The main foods allowed on the paleo diet include: • Meat and fish • Eggs • Nuts and seeds • Fruits • Vegetables except com • Selected fats, such as coconut oil, olive oil, avocado oil, and ghee/butter • Natural sweeteners such as raw honey and coconut sugar (3) People who follow a paleo diet believe in the importance of eating whole foods and healthy fats, and after beginning the diet, many people lose weight. For this reason, paleo is often compared to other high-fat, low- sugar diets such as Keto and Atkins that people mainly follow to lose weight. Getting thinner may be an important effect of the paleo diet, but it is not the reason most people choose to follow it, or at least not the most important one. The paleo diet is about more than just rules for eating. For most people, it covers all areas of their lives. The paleo diet places great importance on how people choose to live. It is about eating natural foods and exercising not just to meet a goal like losing weight or reducing blood sugar, but more importantly to improve mental and physical health. What do passages A and B say about sugar?
What do Passages A and B include as reasons people choose to follow the paleo diet?