Synopsis
***Included in Parade.com's Best Keto Cookbooks to Add to Your Shelves***100 recipes, meal plans, and tactics for success! Certified nutritionists and authors Aimee and Richard will teach you the healthiest and most sustainable way to enjoy the ever-popular ketogenic lifestyle. The Keto diet continues to grow in popularity as people across the country are learning more and more about it. However, there is conflicting research regarding the safety of consuming unlimited amounts of items such as bacon, cheese, fatty cuts of meats, and fried pork rinds. A large percentage of Keto dieters find the 70–80 percent fat intake requirement unsustainable, and even worrisome due to potential health implications. Many people are curious about the Keto lifestyle, given the weight loss results they hear about from others, but will not attempt the diet as the fat intake requirement sounds daunting!
Almost Keto will provide a formal, lower fat, higher fiber, higher micro-nutrient nutrition plan while still employing cleaner keto-approved foods. It will help readers yield positive weight loss and blood sugar level results while providing a more sustainable and healthier lifestyle. A practical how-to guide with nutrition education (cited with studies),
Almost Keto also provides over 100 recipes that incorporate keto-approved foods.
Nutritionist Aimee Aristotelous will teach you everything you need to know (and more), including:
- Explaining the different types of Keto and the principles and foundation of the diet
- Niche Keto foods to know and what to eliminate
- Debunking mainstream dietary myths
- Provide sample meal plans, even including vegan and plant-based options
- How to prevent or treat Type 2 Diabetes with food
- Offer dozens of delicious, Keto-friendly recipes you'll want to try immediately
About the Author
Aimee Aristotelous, author of The Whole Pregnancy: A Complete Nutrition Plan for Gluten-Free Moms to Be, is a certified nutritionist, specializing in ketogenic and gluten-free nutrition, as well as prenatal dietetics. Her expertise has been featured in a variety of publications including Health, People, Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, Insider, Motherly, Consumer Health Digest, Simply Gluten-Free, Well + Good, The National Celiac Association, and Delight Gluten-Free. She has appeared on the morning show in Los Angeles, as a speaker for the nation-wide Nourished Festival, and has been the exclusive nutritionist for NBC affiliate KSEE 24 News in California, appearing in over 50 nutrition and cooking segments. Aimee has nine years of nutrition consulting experience and has helped more than 2,000 people lose weight and get healthy! In addition to her Nutrition and Wellness certification through American Fitness Professionals and Associates, Aimee has a bachelor’s degree in business/marketing from California State University, Long Beach. A California native, she currently resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with her husband, Richard, and son, Alex, and enjoys the beach, cooking, wine tasting, and traveling.
Richard Oliva is a certified nutritionist who specializes in ketogenic, gluten-free, and sports nutrition. He is a third-degree black belt in judo who has competed internationally and won state, national, and international titles. Oliva has conducted numerous nutrition seminars for colleges, health clubs, and medical practices, and has appeared in nutrition and cooking segments on NBC affiliate KSEE 24 News in California. He loves to share his lifetime passion for both nutrition and judo and has helped thousands of people learn how to eat better and improve their health and fitness. Richard earned his Nutrition and Wellness certification through American Fitness Professionals and Associates. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. An Ohio native, he currently resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and enjoys practicing judo as well as weight training, cooking, traveling, and spending time with his wife and three sons.
Dr. Kenneth Akey, a graduate of the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, is a board-certified pediatrics doctor who is based in Newnan, Georgia. In his 25 years of private practice, he has cultivated many strong relationships with his patients and their families. Dr. Akey’s passions include developmental pediatrics and nutrition. He stresses the importance of a healthy diet to all of his patients and their parents, as they are often the ones with ultimate control over what their child eats. When Dr. Akey isn’t providing warm, knowledgeable care for children, he enjoys working out, being involved at his church, and spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren.
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