This is a simple and easy plan to follow and seems pretty reasonable -- not extreme! Nice change of pace from books on the topic.

After a lot of consideration and research, I have come to the conclusion that a diet that fits into the vegetarian/vegan lifestyle is the best way to go for a healthy life. I am grateful that this book covers those options in a excellent fashion.

Although I did not try the diet, I thought this book was informative, with actionable steps to implement the Keto-Green 16 plan. Cabeca does a good job of laying out the plan and setting up readers for success.

A pleasant enough book but nothing to really make it stand out. Kind of niche. Only for libraries where it's requested or very large library systems with a strong keto following.

I have been living a keto lifestyle for a couple of years now, and it is pretty easy to do. This book explains the hows and whys that keto works as well as intermittent fasting. This is a 16 day plan (a little strict, in my opinion but perhaps necessary) to get you started on losing weight and getting your hormones in order. In my experience with ketogenic eating, the weight just disappeared and the fat melted off and I felt absolutely wonderful. I lost over 40 pounds in about 4 months and and now, 2 years later, I've only gained back 4 pounds. Keto really isn't a diet...it's a change of lifestyle.

While the overall idea behind the book is nice, I did not really enjoy the options that were within it. I wish there were more flexible options.

Although I don't follow a keto diet, I am a big believer in the benefits of it on weight loss and overall health.

This book starts with a very thorough look at hormones and the impact they have on health. It includes 16 day plans for both vegans and meat eaters and is a great book for someone craving structure on what to eat and when.

There is a comprehensive section on supplements as well as focus on positive thinking. The pictures of the recipes are mouth watering, I just wish they were shown near the recipe versus being in their own section.

Overall a great book to kick off the keto lifestyle with recipes for keto lovers or just food lovers.

Thank you Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine and NetGalley for this digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

I found this book to be very thorough in talking about the "Keto-Green 16' and it's benefits. She talks about the benefits of the keto diet and why it does (or does not) work. She talks a lot about hormones and how they are affected by her eating plan as well as intermittent fasting. She goes into detail about all of these things, and her explanations are easily understandable. Exercise and its benefits are discussed, along with simple exercise plans to follow.

She discusses the foods allowed on her eating plan, as well as their benefits. There are a number of simple recipes using these foods. They are easy to put together and are composed of a variety of healthy, tasty foods. There are a number of pictures of these vibrants meals.

I look forward to trying some of the exercises and recipes. Her plan is not a one size fits all type of thing, and I think that is very important. It allows many types of people to try and have success with her plan.

Thank you to #NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

I read this book a couple of months ago and thought I'd reviewed it back then but I see that I haven't. I really wanted to like this book. A nutrition book that promises to help you lose weight and reverse illness in just 16 days? Awesome. And I liked the idea that it combined "green" foods like veggies with a keto diet instead of just recommending fatty animal products. It ended up not really being a good fit for me, though.

The premise of the diet is that you should combine a keto diet with an alkaline diet for best results, and this will fix hormone levels that are the cause of health problems (thyroid, insulin, estrogen and other hormones).

The 16 foods or food groups recommended are: fish, beef, chicken, dark leafy greens, raw sprouts, cabbage, cruciferous vegetables, garlic and other alliums, MCT oil or coconut oil, olive oil, nuts (Brazel, almond, hazelnut and pili), avocado, lemons and limes, fermented foods (sour kraut, kimchi and pickled ginger), bone broth, and 3 fruits (mango, pineapple and papaya). There are a few optional add-in foods like spices, vegetarian swaps for the meats, and eggs. You avoid dairy, sugar, other fruits and vegetables, cured meats, grains, juices and so on.

She also offers a vegan list of 16 foods to eat. These are mostly the same but use black soybeans, white beans, chickpeas and vegan aklaline broth.

In addition, you do 16 minutes of exercise a day, especially HIIT exercise, and practice intermittent fasting. You are required to test your ketones and urinary pH every morning and to start the day with an alkaline drink that you make or purchase from her website. She also recommends a lot of other powders and such that you can purchase from her website, plus a lot of supplements (vitamins, minerals and herbs). Not surprisingly, she offers combinations of these supplements for sale on her website too. She also recommends commonsense healthy practices like getting enough sleep, drinking enough water and meditating, among other positive self care practices.

After 16 days on her plan you can repeat the cycle if you want to lose more weight or move on to a modified diet with more foods allowed.

The second half of the book is recipes. These include vegan recipes and ones with animal products. Maddeningly, no nutritional information is provided (a huge gripe of mine for cookbooks but especially for health-related cookbooks). Many of the recipes call for her protein powders and supplements.

The end result for me is that I'd go bankrupt buying all the test strips and supplements she says you need and I'm not entirely convinced that 16 days of living this way will do what she promises. I will take some of the advice regarding lifestyle changes, healthy foods and exercise suggestions but won't be doing her 16 day program.

I read a digital ARC of this book for review.

I thought this was an interesting book. It was very well researched and it explained the Keto diet in a way so that ordinary people can understand it. I requested this book from Netgalley to see what exactly the Keto Diet really was and how it works. Granted I am not 100% sure that I am going to try this right now, but it is a great book for those who really want to try it. I liked the recipes they had towards the end of the book for the basics they talk about during the book.

In Keto-Green 16, Dr. Anna Cabeca presents her alkaline ketogenic diet and lifestyle plan for hormone balance and weight loss. The initial plan lasts only 16 days, although the author does recommend that you adopt her plan as a permanent lifestyle. The diet uses only 16 key ingredient types with a maximum of 40 grams of carbohydrate per day. The plan also recommends fasting for 16 hours per day, exercising for 16 minutes a day, and adding 16 positive lifestyle practices, such as meditation and journaling.

The first part of the book provides an explanation of how 13 hormones affect mood, energy, and weight control. I found this information very interesting, but if you just want to know what to eat, it may seem overwhelming.

The author then discusses how she developed her Keto-Green 16 protocol and provides some limited evidence regarding its safety and efficacy. I found this section disappointing, because many of the studies she cites involve very small numbers of patients, and it’s not clear how well the studies were designed, nor are the full results available. The author provides references in an appendix, but the references aren’t cited clearly in the text.

When the author described her diet plan, she includes a vegan version of the plan. She recommends many of her own protein powders and nutritional supplements, but she also provides alternatives if you don’t want to use her products. I appreciated her efforts to make the plan accessible to a wide audience. If you’re someone who eats to live rather than living to eat, you might do ok on this plan, but I get a lot of pleasure from my meals, and this plan looked like it would involve a lot of effort and would become boring quickly. I might be able to tough it out for 16 days if I were desperate to lose weight, but I can’t see adopting this as a lifestyle. And I’ve been attempting intermittent fasting for months and am still not able to fast for 16 hours a day.

So far, I have only tried one of the recipes provided. The Mango Coconut Sorbet is easy to prepare and a refreshing dessert for someone on a restricted diet. Some of the recipes looked very easy, and some would be more challenging, but they did seem clearly written.

The book seems to be aimed mostly at perimenopausal women, but the plan could work for any age or gender. One chapter is specifically for men. I wish the author had spent a little bit more time discussing possible contraindications, although she does provide warnings for certain people who shouldn’t try fasting.

If you’re curious about the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, this is a good choice. The author’s keto diet might be difficult to implement, but it looks much healthier than many other versions of keto I’ve seen. I think this plan would be a challenge to implement unless you have a lot of free time and motivation, but if you follow the plan in its entirety, you are very likely to lose weight.

I was provided an unproofed ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review.

I went in thinking this was a bit more of a book on specific healthy keto recipes for full meals, but it focused a lot on supplements both in capsules and shakes, and I feel like that should've changed the title, cover, and focus of this book. It's not a bad take, just something I didn't expect when first picking this up. Great suggestions though!

I was already a fan of the KETO diet before reading this book but a KETO lifestyle wasn't going to be for me long term. Thanks to Dr. Anna, KETO is headed in the right direction for the fruit and veggie lover. Many of us cannot properly convert carbs to energy and it gets stored as fat. We start restricting calories only to find out, this makes the process of fat loss ineffective. This book has so much information on how hormones and alkaline levels play into fat loss. You will have so many, A-ha moments, reading through this book. It all makes sense with science to explain what's going on inside your unique body when you start loosing fat.. 16 days, with 16 ingredients and a 16 Minute workout - count me in.

Based on the description, I was expecting a diet book/cookbook. This is written more like a scientific approach to weight loss, but what's missing is advice to consult your doctor before starting a keto diet or taking any of the author's brand of supplements shilled herein. There's also some surprisingly random moralizing, such as "looking at porn is not a good idea in general" (this was from a sidebar about reasons for low testosterone). This is not a title I'm likely to buy for our public library.

This book is very informative. It lays out exactly the science behind losing weight and making better choices for your health, essentially how to get your body into ketosis. Also, there is a helpful list of foods that you can implement into your daily eating habits. Recommend if you want to learn more about ketosis and how to start.

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine Books for this e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

This is pretty much your standard how-to Keto book. It explains the diet in great detail and the benefits of it. The book gives a decent 16 day meal plan plus recipes. I liked the medical portions and that she covers not only physical health but also mental/emotional health.

Overall, it's a decent book. Not sure if I would recommend to someone without any Keto knowledge because it could come off as a bit overwhelming--especially with the section on supplements (she lists quite a few).

3.5/5

Thank you NetGalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Dr Anna Cabeca brings her expertise and experience with the Keto Diet to her new book Keto-Green 16. She delves into the scientific research of the Keto diet and how differing hormone levels effect progress in weight-loss and the body's ability to burn fat storage as fuel. She focuses on using alkaline foods, like leafy greens, to stabilize hormone imbalances. She has also created a 16 day plan coupling Keto and intermittent fasting to jump start weight loss.

I enjoyed this book as Dr Cabeca is very informed and explained in great detail a lot of the different scientific pieces that go into weight loss and structuring a diet plan. I have followed Keto for a while and appreciated learning some new concepts in balancing hormone levels. The 16 day diet plan would be good for a beginner looking to see some quicker results or someone looking to break a weight plateau. The recipes were okay and easy to follow but fairly basic.

You can tell by the title that the author may like doling out a ton of information in a jack of all trades keto diet book. The author is a doctor so the first couple of chapters sound like a medical diagnosis from menopause to immunodeficiency. I found it really eye opening since I’m just starting menopause and I think on a part this book is partially geared towards women who end up in this category given that the author is a gynecologist.

What did I like? I wouldn’t say this was a cookbook but more of a diet plan for menopausal women who have unwanted belly fat that is hard to get rid of. There is a ton of things needed however to follow this diet plan (that while it’s doable) looks to be expensive. Along with urine testing strips and smoothie blends that are sold from the doctors website. Most of the recipes for smoothies require the blend. The book has some yummy recipe’s but zero pictures. The diet also calls for supplements that can be found pretty much anywhere. There is also no nutrition or calorie information for the meals which if we are counting for macros ....(shrugs shoulders).

Would I buy or recommend? I still think this book has a wealth of information for menopausal women that is a beneficial read. Some of it may even be eye opening to you. I guess however much you want to invest in your health is up to you. There is a chapter for men reaching that overweight syndrome at 40+ too. There is also a chapter on what porn does to your sexual testosterone level.

Thoughts for the author? Congratulations on your release! Wealth of information. I’m going to try it and see how I do. I’d like to see a chapter dedicated to people who work rotating shifts. How will this work for us? Maybe in your next book.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review. First off this has been a lifesaver during our shelter in place orders. I have never cooked so many nights in a row until now. I loved learning about what my body needs nutrition wise to be fueled including tons of add in foods like almond milk and other nut milks. I went from hearing the word Keto as a buzz word to really understanding how this diet could help me in my weight management goals. The step by step planner over the first 16 days will be super helpful and I am most looking forward to the improved sleep. Thank you for this amazing tool!

I have tried the keto/low carb diet with much success, so I found this book very informative. However, I do wish the author shared more recipes and not just all shakes.