Low Carb Articles
Trying To Lose Weight? Here's A Low
Carb Tip "If it's white, don't eat it."
by: Dr. Howard Hagglund M.D.
Trying to LOSE WEIGHT? Here’s a tip... if it’s white,
don’t eat it!
Dr. Hagglund's Healthy Eating Tips
(All wheat products, bananas*, breads, rice, sugar, and
potatoes.)
Research has shown that these foods almost triple your
blood
sugar rise in proportion to how many calories they carry... nobody
knows why for sure but it’s clear that foods high in carbohydrates
cause your pancreas to increase your insulin production.
The reason we “pack fat” is insulin. Insulin is commonly
thought of as “what's missing” from a person with diabetes. But it’s
more than that. Besides controlling the level of blood sugar in your
body, it causes you to be hungry!
It sends you searching through your house at night for
chocolate and cookies! It turns on the fat storing machine in the fat
cells of your body and further, blocks those fat cells from releasing
their stored fat.
The result is that as you eat and exercise, your body
can’t
convert the stored fat to sugar to burn for energy, which is the
desired result of both eating and exercise... which makes you want to
eat more after the effects of your workout pass. It’s a vicious cycle!
One powerful way of blocking the effect of carbohydrates
and
the rise of insulin is to put high quality proteins into your metabolic
system in front of everything you eat. Even if you’re eating wedding
cake, try to take in some protein before you eat it... a piece of lean
beef or a soft boiled egg. The protein turns on the metabolic processes
in the cells to burn the blood sugar faster and therefore stop the
insulin rise.
90% of what we eat has to be turned into sugar to be
passed
through the energy burning systems of the body. Controlling insulin is
not just about stopping sugar intake.
You must understand that many foods, especially the
white
ones, get turned into sugar. It’s easy to lose track of this fact.
Watch those carbs! They are the precursor to the production of sugar in
your body which over-stimulates insulin and it ’s the insulin that
“packs the fat ” on you.
*People commonly think that bananas are healthy food
because
they provide potassium. These days, bananas are mostly picked green and
shipped, and the potassium content isn’t nearly what it used to be. The
potassium benefit really doesn’t outweigh the negative effects of the
high sugar content.
Howard E. Hagglund, M.D.
About The Author
Dr. Howard Hagglund M.D. is the TaeBo Select Medical
Advisor.
His approach to natural health and nutrition supports the new line of
TaeBo Select low carbohydrate weight loss and nutrition supplements.
Get more articles from Dr. Hagglund by visiting: http://www.TaeBoHealth.com
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Here is today's feature Lowcarb article.
Is Low-Carb Weight Loss Really Just Water Loss?
by: Craig Whitley
Any weight loss or diet plan, including low-carb plans like the induction phase of the Atkins Diet will result in water loss during the first week or two. However, one of the real beauties of following a low carbohydrate eating plan is that most of the weight loss than extends beyond the initial induction phase of the diet is really from a drop in fat pounds.
Click here to read the whole article.
The information and
opinions above are those of the authors. There is no guarantee of
accuracy. Consult your personal doctor before you start a new diet,
exercise program, or take supplements.
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