Low Fat Diets
1.
"If you eat a low-fat diet in the hope of losing
weight, you unintentionally make the problem worse.
If, like millions of women, you have eaten a low-fat,
high-carbohydrate diet for many years, or followed fad
diets, the odds are good that you have become at least
partially insulin resistant. Insulin is responsible
for maintaining stable blood sugar levels by telling
the body’s cells when to absorb glucose from the
bloodstream. Being insulin resistant means your body
stops responding to insulin, and instead grabs every
calorie it can and deposits it as fat. So no matter
how little you eat, you will gradually gain weight.
At the same time, your cells cannot absorb the glucose
they need, so they signal your brain that you need more
carbohydrates or sugars. The result is persistent food
cravings. Even worse, insulin resistance leads directly
to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Many experts
believe it is the root cause of the epidemic of those
diseases in America today. And a low-fat diet makes
it far more likely you will suffer from this condition.
Millions of American women are now trying the Atkins
Diet or the South Beach Diet. While these diets are
an improvement over the conventional low-fat, high-carbohydrate
diet, they can worsen your metabolic problems, because
dieting itself is stressful to the body. So many women
need to heal their metabolism first before even considering
weight loss." (1)
