low carb diet
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A
low carb diet is not a diet in the normal sense of going
on a diet, lose a few pounds then go back to normal eating.
A low carb diet is a lifestyle, you change the way you
eat for good.
How does a low carb diet work ?
The principle behind a low carb diet is that it causes
your body to burn up fat naturally, while at the same
time creating the conditions that prevent further fat
from building up.
The principle is this,
Apart from dietary fiber, large amounts of carbohydrates,
(sugars and starches), are broken down into simple sugars
The body will burn these sugars for energy rather than
stored fat, simply because it is easier to obtain energy
this way.
Large amounts of insulin are produced to aid the absorption
of the sugars by the cells, unfortunately insulin also
promotes the conversion of excess sugar into fat.
So, a diet with a large amount of carbohydrate will lead
to the body using sugars for energy, and accumulate the
excess sugar to fat, and will tend to not burn any of
the stored fat. |
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A low carb diet
is intended to counter this.
With a low carb diet the simple sugars are not available
for the body utilize, so it turns to it's fat reserve
for energy.
Less insulin is produced, so any simple sugars that are
present are not converted to fat.
A low carb diet therefore transforms the way your body
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There is another
important difference between a low carb diet and a traditional
calorie controlled diet.
A traditional calorie controlled diet will reduce fat,
but it will also reduce lean muscle. Reducing the amount
of lean muscle will lower your metabolism and therefore
your capacity to burn calories, so the diet become less
effective. Also, if you give up the diet and go back to
normal eating, because your metabolism is now slower,
you will burn less calories than you did before you started
your diet, and you will put weight back on again.
A low carb diet reduces fat but does not reduce lean muscle,
with a little light exercise you will actually build lean
muscle and therefore increase your metabolism, increasing
your ability to burn calories. A low carb diet in effect
converts fats to lean muscle. Lean muscle takes up less
bulk than fat so you therefore look thinner. Initially
you won't loose weight, because lean muscle weighs more
than fat volume for volume as it is denser, but you will
look thinner. Later in the diet you will then start to
loose weight as well.
Should you decide that a low carb diet is not for you
and come of it, you are in a better position than the
traditional calorie controlled dieter, you will have a
faster metabolism, plenty of lean muscle, and will therefore
not be so prone to put weight back on again so quickly. |
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| And a low carb
diet will not make you look like a body builder,
you are utilizing lean muscle, these are not the same
muscles a body builder works on, so don't let the idea
that a low carb diet is building muscles worry you, a
low carb diet strengthens and improves the muscles that
hold you in and make you look trim. |
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So what choice of foods are available
if you go on low card diet. Well, in fact you can eat
just what you eat now, but low carb versions. In fact,
one of the great appeals of a low carb diet, is that
you can eat as much as you do now, you won't feel hungry
and you won't have to give up food you can taste.
And if you do have a favorite food that does not fit
into the low carb diet plan, you can bet there is a
low carb version, Synergy Diet have a huge range of low carb foods such as bread, pizzas, cookies, candy so you can enjoy those foods that normally contain high amounts of carbohydrate.
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