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A Ketogenic diet is a diet that, when followed conscientiously, produces a by-product called ketones. Most dieters can reach ketosis (a condition associated with increased amounts of ketones in the blood) by limiting their carb intake to less than 60 grams a day. The state of ketosis is what makes a ketogenic diet metabolically so similar to fasting that it is often being referred to as a controlled fast.
The clinical ketogenic diet is a diet high in fat and low not only in carbohydrates. It also limits water intake (to avoid ketone dilution)and carefully controls calorie intake.
A diet that allows less than 100 grams of carbohydrate a day is considered low carb. Whether or not it causes ketosis is a different question. The matter is, we all periodically experience ketosis, for example, before breakfast and after exercise. Eating foods that are low in carbohydrates, we prolong this state and the time spent in the ketosis is the time of fat burning.
Additional TIP: Don't rely on ketosticks to estimate the success of your low carb diet: they only can turn purple when you burn a large amount of fat so that the excess ketones are discarded in the urine. When all ketone bodies are used up for body's energy needs, there is no color change though you can be in a state of ketosis.
