High-carb diets

Email this page to a friend

Want news about High-carb diets and more e-mailed to you? Click here for free email alerts

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

In fact, metabolic researchers have found that protein-rich diets can improve long-term insulin sensitivity whereas low-fat, high-carb diets can influence the progression of insulin resistance, according to Loren Cordain, Ph.D., a professor in the department of health and exercise at Colorado State University and author of The Paleo Diet. Dr. Cordain—who has conducted research over the past two decades linking our modern, carb-laden diet to various diseases—points out that protein isn't stored as fat the way carbs are.

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

People have lived and thrived on high-protein high-fat diets, on low-protein high-carb diets, on diets high in raw milk and cream, and even on diets high in animal blood (the Masai). And they've done so without the ravages of degenerative diseases that are epidemic in modern life—heart disease, diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases, osteoporosis, cancer. Here's what they haven't done: thrived on food with bar codes. Nor, for that matter, have they thrived on food you could pick up in less than a minute at a drive-through.

Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

People with prediabetes often have difficulty losing weight on low-fat, Some people are high-carb diets. Instead, they are more likely especially sensitive to iose weight on low-carb, high-protein diets, to sugar and carbo- reason is that people with prediabetes are hydrate calories. extremely sensitive to sugar and carbohydrate Maybe you are. calories. They do better with protein, which does not trigger a strong glucose response. Interestingly, people who are overweight but not prediabetic tend to lose more weight on high-carb but low-calorie diets.

The long-term problem, however, is that high-carb diets will eventually cause prediabetes, at which point these people will do better on a low-carb, high-protein diet. The Two Most Dangerous Food Additives Two specific food additives may be largely responsible for the increasing numbers of people who are overweight, obese, prediabetic, and diabetic. These additives are high-fructose corn syrup and trans fats; uangers mat lutk ueyona l.aiones ana uaras dj the latter are found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

Even those studies that showed identical weight loss with low-carb versus high-carb diets demonstrated this: low-carb diets beat the pants off high-carb diets every time when it comes to lowering triglycerides and raising HDL, even in those few cases where weight loss was identical. And here's the piece de resistance.

Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Western medicine has, for many years, actually been treating diabetes by recommending high-carb diets! Even the American Diabetes Association used to recommend a 60 percent carbohydrate diet! (Which I'm sure was very effective at keep people on the membership roster, since they could hardly be free of diabetes with that kind of diet.

Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

You may also be thinking that the higher levels of fat that are frequently (though not always) part of low-carb diet plans may not be so bad after all if they're not accompanied by the high insulin levels that go with high-carb diets. You'd be right on that count as well. Insulin Prevents You From Losing Fat An important thing to remember just from a weight loss point of view is that insulin isn't only responsible for getting sugar into the cells and out of the bloodstream. It's also responsible for getting fat into the fat cells and keeping it there. Insulin actually prevents fat burning.

Because a low-carbohydrate diet is able to reduce insulin levels and is far more likely to induce hormonally balanced states than conventional high-carb diets, it is possible—though we're not 100 percent sure—that you may be able to consume somewhat more calories on a low-carb diet than / used to find that I'd have fewer cravings—actually be less hungry—if I forgot to eat. Now that I understand how insulin works as "the hunger hormone" it all makes sense. These days I choose my food with an eye on how it's going to affect my blood sugar and insulin levels.

Many studies show more weight lost on low-carb diets than on high-carb diets with the same number of calories, and more of that weight comes from fat. Even those studies that show equal weight loss invariably show better blood chemistry on the low-carb diets. Lowering fat in the diet is not the answer to obesity. For references, go to What's New?/For Your Doctor on JonnyBowden.com. MYTH #5: Low-Carb Diets Increase the Risk for Heart Disease In Denmark, the number of storks is positively correlated with the number of babies born.

The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss Arthur Agatston, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

It became clear that many of the clinicians in that room had also had discouraging results with recommending low-fat, high-carb diets. I was relieved and very excited that we were on the right track. We then conducted a study pitting our diet against the strict "step 2" American Heart Association diet. We randomized 40 overweight volunteers to either of the diets, meaning that half went on the Heart Association program and half got the South Beach Diet. None of the subjects knew where their diet had come from.

FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.

TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalNews.com/np/index.html

This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.

ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of this NaturalNews Naturalpedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.