When Counting Calories, Count Them Wisely
When it comes to cutting calories, it is important to learn which calories will promote health and which ones will damage health.
Just going on a low-cal diet and eliminating calorie-rich fats and/or opt for artificially sweetened products is not good.
As recently noted in The New York Times: “In recent years, a number of studies have cast doubt on the health benefits of the traditional low-fat diet, suggesting instead that eating more fat, with the exception of trans fats and less sugar and refined carbohydrates might be better for overall health.”
If initially one does lose weight on a low-fat diet, he/she is sacrificing long-term health by promoting insulin resistance and related diseases for the simple reason that low-fat diets tend to be high in sugars instead.
For example: a recent meta-review published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that once you reach 18% of your daily calories from added sugar, there is also a 2-fold increase in metabolic harm that promotes pre-diabetes and diabetes.
So, more often than not, people will find that the weight comes off much easier when when they eat more healthy fats and fewer non-vegetable carbohydrates, read: added sugars, processed fructose, and processed grains.
If all of this sounds complicated it is actually quite easy to figure this out once the basics are understood and committed to memory.
In a nutshell, all one really needs to remember is that processed foods contain lots of ingredients that promote metabolic dysfunction, insulin resistance, and obesity, so the Key is to buy and eat real food, and preferably Organic.
Eat healthy, Be Healthy, Live lively.
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Paul Ebeling
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