If you were to mention the word Ketogenic to the average fitness enthusiast, they might think you were talking about one of the characters from the latest Star Trek movie. While the name is not familiar, what Ketogenic's does is and you just may want to try it for yourself.

Ketogenic's is a high fat diet that will encourage the body to burn fat stores in your body. Yes, you heard that right, a high fat diet that will actually burn your existing fat. Sounds like a pretty good deal, but before you run out to the local Krispy Kreme and start scarfing down crullers in the name of ketogenic's, let's get a little background info first.

The ketogenic diet was developed in the 1920's as a potential treatment for epilepsy. The diet replaces carbohydrates with fat, because carbohydrates break down into glucose, which can trigger seizures in epileptics, while fat breaks down into fatty acids and ketone bodies, which are then used to replace glucose in the brain for energy.

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