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UNITED STATES, Aug 13 — I work out four to five days each week. I eat “low fat / no fat” everything and I carefully count Calories. I never eat after 6:00 P. If the foregoing scenario sounds familiar despair not for you are not alone
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work out four to five days each week. I eat “low fat / no fat” everything and I carefully count Calories. I never eat after 6:00 P.M. and I rarely eat desert. I eat whole grains and try to follow the recommended food guide. I have been faithful to this program for nearly two years but I still can’t lose those twenty excess pounds.
If the foregoing scenario sounds familiar despair not for you are not alone. Also, don’t be discouraged because there are some answers to your problems. Read on. If your are troubled by this frustrating, routinely recommended “diet and exercise” system and find that you also tend to gain all of your shed kilograms / pounds back every time you digress from your program you are likely among the 75+% of the population who have not been controlling your Insulin levels.
The Heller’s of “The Carbohydrate Addicts diet” fame would call you an addict. Some would call you Insulin resistant and others would call you “Pre-Diabetic”. It doesn’t matter what your condition is called, the reality is, you are likely not controlling your insulin levels.
North Americans are eating less fat than ever recorded in history and yet they are gaining weight to a point where the World health Organization has called it an epidemic. We also have a Type II Diabetes epidemic in progress and a new case is diagnosed every 8½ minutes in Canada. Type II Diabetes is the condition where you produce enough or a lot of insulin but appear to be resistant to its proper utilization - it is know as Non Insulin Dependant Diabetes or Adult Onset Diabetes) The form of Diabetes is totally controllable by diet although few choose that route. Most Type II Diabetics gain weight because the excess insulin (the storage hormone) prevents the mobilization of free fatty acids to be burned for energy.
Could the problem be that the “Politically Correct” diet recommendations are in fact less than correct for the majority. Scientific publications contain a wealth of documentation demonstrating that excess insulin may be the culprit responsible for excess weight gain. Dr. Norman Kaplan, author of the medical text book “Clinical Hypertension” states ‘most overweight people are hyper-insulinemic’ (too much insulin in the bloodstream). Dr. Calvin Ezrin, professor of endocrinology at UCLA and author of “The Endocrine Control Diet and its second edition “The Type II Diabetics Diet” outlines very clearly the research on hyperinsulinemia and its many negative effects on human health. Insulin, the famous storage hormone secreted by the pancreas in response to elevated blood sugar, might be dubbed the Good guy / Bad guy. You can’t live without it, just ask any Type I Diabetic but too much causes a virtual smorgasbord (pardon the pun) of problems.
Problems like : • Frequent hunger • Fat storage • Sodium retention - leading to fluid retention and hypertension • Essential Fatty Acid Metabolic interference leading to hormonal imbalances and inflammatory conditions • Elevated cholesterol and triglycerides • Prostate growth.
Excess insulin is the result of either a condition of insulin resistance or from an over sensitized pancreas which over produces insulin in the presence of rapidly rising blood sugar. Regardless of the cause the ONLY SOLUTION is to control the amount of blood sugar and the rate at which blood sugar rises. So to answer the question posed in the title: Because you are not controlling your blood insulin levels.
The only way to control blood insulin levels is through careful and responsible selection of carbohydrate sources and to exercise. Exercise does reduce insulin levels but only for about two hours (less if you follow your exercise with a high carbohydrate drink or snack which is a good idea to speed recovery following exhaustive exercise—not a good idea following moderate aerobic exercise designed to help you burn Calories and lose weight). I have found the least painful and healthiest way for dietary control of insulin is to follow a food selection program of 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein and 30% fat. (Remember that even the American Heart Association does not endorse fat intakes below 30%). This plan has been dubbed the 40-30-30 plan as opposed to the typical dietary habits and recommendation of 60-15-25 or 55-15-30 or the athletes diet of 60-20-20. A few simple rules need to followed in a 40-30-30 eating plan (which is not a short term “diet” but rather a responsible lifestyle choice):
• Eat protein in every meal and every snack—no exceptions • Eat some of your protein and fat first to control the rate of blood sugar Elevation • Choose low Glycemic Index (raise blood sugar slowly) vegetable and fruit as your main sources of carbohydrates. They have higher nutritional density per Calorie and more fibre. Minimize pop, juice, dried fruit, bananas, root vegetables, and corn. • Choose fewer grain products as your carbohydrate choices and always use the most unprocessed versions. • Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) and high quality proteins are the “spark plugs to metabolism” choose them wisely. Be sure there are some EFAs in every meal. • Food Supplementation is not an option for enduring good health. It is a necessity. -Start with a complete and reputable Multi Vitamin and some EFAs like Omega 3 and GLA.
I don’t count Calories in this program, I only offer them here as a frame of reference. Your nutritional choices are far more important than the number of Calories. High quality diets are automatically lower in Calories because it is easier to supply the nutrient demands. This would be approximately a 1300 Calorie day and I can assure you will not feel hungry. You will have lots of energy and you will lose weight if you need to.
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BIO Dr. L. Lee Coyne, Ph. D. http://www.leanseekers.com is a former Professor of exercise physiology and nutrition and the nutrition coach to many high performance athletes including several Canadian Olympic teams. (Tanya Dubnicoff, Olympic cyclist, Michelle Morton, Olympic speed skater, several Olympic Biathletes, skiers and hockey players, Jamie Clarke, Everest Summiteers) and Neil Runions - 2 time finisher of the Badwater 135 Mile ultramarathon. His writing appears regularly in a bi-monthly health and fitness magazine "Impact" and monthly in a monthly "Elements Fitness & Nutrition" -Oklahma City. His books include "Fat Won't Make You Fat", http://www.leanseekers.com/books.htm "The Sports Nutrition Coaches Handbook" & "Nutritional Symptomatology, the consumers handbook". His most recent release is "The Little Book of Nutrition Nuggets". He is the President of Lean Seekers International http://www.leanseekers.com and he is the nutrition coach for the endurance program "Critical Speed".
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