kinetosis stick question
 

I'm trying to track what foods are having an adverse effect on my diet by watching me kinetosis test results. I need to know how long does it take, after eating, for the food to effect the test results? Thanks for the help!

Well... it would take at least the time needed for digestion. A high fat/low carb meal will make the stix darker. But that doesn't mean your body is using more BODY fat for energy... it just means it metabolized the fat in the food you ate. The stix aren't all about what you're eating, either. You can be in ketosis and not register that on the test stix. How? If your body is using all the ketones you're producing, there won't be any extra to show up in your urine. That's why the stix are so frustrating to many people. They really don't mean much. I think sometimes, if the stix turn purple that it might mean that person is overeating fat/protein... undereating vegetable carbs... and/or under-exercising. Having that many ketones in your urine means you have a LOT of ketones left over. I'm happy having a trace or less because I'm counting my carbs and I'm exercising, and I know from other signs that I'm in ketosis. So that means I'm using all or most of the ketones I'm producing.

I can tell you what foods will have an adverse effect on your diet... anything with sugar/carbs. It helps to spread your daily carb allotment out over the course of the day. That way your body never has to metabolize more than a few carbs at a time.

Hope that helped answer your question.
Tril