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Low carbohydrate diets and health benefits

March 18, 2016

Low carbohydrate diets effectiveness and health benefits: How it works to control weight

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Low carbohydrate diets effectiveness and health benefits is offering real time solutions to weight loss problem

From the founding fathers of this discovery (low carbohydrate diets) many physicians have over the last century applied Doctor Atkins discovery in the treatment of several health conditions including obesity, diabetes, and many other health problems. Some of the applications commonly used may include low carb high fat (LCHF), Rosedale diet, Atkins, Ketogenic and Protein power. In a little while and with the help of doctor Dalal Akoury MD, President and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, we will be discussion in details low carbohydrates diets work in addressing all these health complications but in the meantime let us look at some of the benefits and side effects that may come with this application:

Prospective benefits

  • It provides the very best diet for carbohydrate-sensitive individuals
  • It encourages consumption of fatty foods which is the preference of many people
  • Improvement of energy
  • With this one may not need to count calories
  • Improvement of moods
  • It is one of the best and effective diet for weight loss
  • Possess high potential of eradicating food cravings and obsession
  • Offers good ways of managing chronic health complications

Even though the concept of low-carbohydrate diets was made popular in recent decades by Dr. Atkins, the concept was discovered very long time ago and has been in exisistance for more than a century now. Over the period quality scientific research findings have established that very low-carbohydrate diets are effective not only as a weight loss strategy, but also as a way of treating and in many cases preventing chronic conditions like diabetes, epilepsy and other common chronic diseases caused by insulin resistance. Now for us to find out how low carbohydrate diets works, we are going to seek answers to some questions as we move along in this order.

Low carbohydrate diets effectiveness and health benefits: How safe are low carbohydrate diets?

The question of safety is very vital and scientific evidence has confirmed that low carbohydrates are indeed safe. This has been further affirmed by the fact that over the years the indigenous Eskimos who were gatherers lived and thrived for centuries feeding essentially on almost carbohydrate free diet and no trace of complications were registered in them. It therefore means that the body can actually survive on a zero grams of carbohydrate and so eliminating carbohydrate from your diet will certainly not cause any harm to your health.

Besides the factors of safety highlighted above, it is important to note that, this is only applicable where one is in perfect health. That is to say if an individual is under certain medication like for instance that of any chronic health conditions like diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure, such individuals needs to be under close supervision by their physician from the initial stages of this diet. This is very necessary for the medication dosage to be proper. The reason why this is necessary is because this diet can have a powerful effect on your body chemistry quite very fast. With that the blood pressure and blood sugar can naturally fall towards more normal values even in just a few days, thereby necessitating the need for medication dosages to be reduced progressively to avoid any possible serious medication side effects.

The effectiveness of low carbohydrate diets

If one was to ask if the administration of low carbohydrates is effective the answer would be yes and not just yes but exceptionally effective. Research has established that majority of people do lose essentially more body fat much faster and more comfortably on a low carbohydrate diets in relation to other tested diets. The message being passed there is simple and direct to the point that low carbohydrate diets are much healthier than other diets simply because they improve cholesterol profiles together with blood sugar or insulin profile far much better than other diets. The reason behind this is because carbohydrates are a driving force behind cholesterol and blood sugar problems. Experts have since concluded that these diets are actually the best for patients struggling with any pre-diabetes and even diabetes type I and II, besides this category of people this diet is also suitable for all those people who are generally carbohydrate sensitive. The good news about this diet is that it has the potential to entirely reverse the complications of type I and II diabetes.

Low carbohydrate diets effectiveness and health benefits: Ketogenic diets

The most interesting thing about ketogenic diet is that besides being very low in carbohydrates, it is also very limited in protein. These characteristics enable the body to burn fat for energy effectively. Over the years these low carbohydrates diets have been used to effectively and successfully treat epilepsy and have been seen to be much more effective in relation to the anti-seizure medications in most cases. At the moment researchers are busy carrying out test with a view of finding any possibilities of cancer treatment through the application of low carbohydrate diets and any positive result in this line will be a serious break through. Finally and besides the aforementioned, low carb diet is also recommended for treatment of mental health like depression, eating disorder, anxiety and bipolar disorder.

Low carbohydrate induction phase

Like with all new things sometime of adaptation will be necessary. If you are going to begin using low carb diet for the first time, things may not be as normal in the early stages of usage. Like for instance in most cases the first few hours (24-72 hours) of being introduced on a very low-carbohydrate diet, you will be faced with some tough situations as your body makes adjust to living without dietary sugars and starches. During this period of adaptation you are likely to feel some changes in your system including being irritable, hungry, moody and tired most of the time. You could also have trouble with sleeping and just feeling restless and unease. It is however important to note that these are very normal experiences and once you get through that preliminary withdrawal period, your body shall have become adaptable to the new environment and you will be able to feel much better.

Because the body was originally designed to be burning fat, our daily practices have made it almost impossible for this function to be performed effectively thanks to the high intake of carbs. And because of this the body has over a very long period of time been changed or reduced into a tool of carbs instead of burning fat. Because of this, it is therefore necessary that the body will have to take some few weeks to completely transition to its original function of burning fats and that is why there will be such feelings during the transition period.

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The secret to a Faster Metabolism lies in Food choices that we make

February 9, 2012

 The secret to a Faster Metabolism lies in Food choices that we make

Eating carbohydrates makes you store belly fat. A recent study1 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that when you eat a low protein diet, you store bad fat around your organs including the liver, kidneys and pancreas. On the other hand if you eat a diet rich in protein, you add muscle and increase your resting metabolism and muscle mass. Muscle in action is the your energy power house and it help the body to burn seven times as many calories as fat. This novel study used 25 brave volunteers who accepted to be admitted to a hospital ward for 12 weeks. Two controlled groups were formed, the two groups were identical, and were offered a 1000 calories diet, the only difference was that one group was only allowed where calories from protein and the other group consumed a high carb diet. The high carb group (5% protein) lost 1.5 pounds of muscle, and gained 7.5 pounds of fat. The high protein group (25% protein) gained 6.3 pounds of metabolically active muscle. They also gained fat because they were being force fed. But even though they gained more total weight, they were LESS fat than the low protein group.

The moral of the story is that: Not all calories are the same. Carb rich calories make us store fat, while protein rich calories help us you store muscle. During an era where morbid obesity is reaching a critical epidemic magnitude (2.1 billion) and the world population is getting bigger – even in countries like China and India where the population were usually slender to skinny. We now that rapidly absorbed carbohydrates from the bulk of the Standard American Diet (SAD) that is now sweeping increasingly the entire world’s diet. This generation diet and calories come primarily – from sugar, high fructose corn syrup and white flour. These highly processed food items are the staples of the modern worldwide diet. These food items are very competently turned into belly fat in the body which in turn lead to obesity and diabetes. Another recent study found that the free fructose in high fructose corn syrup (not in fruit), led to dramatic increases in belly fat, inflammation, blood pressure, blood sugar and even pre-diabetes in adolescents.

Carbohydrates and protein elicit very different chemical messages in the body independent of caloric value, it is the quality and not the quantity of calories that matters. Carbs lay down the fat, while protein lays down muscle. 4 This study on protein adds to a whole slew of research that proves that higher protein diets (25%) does all sorts of obesity fighting things to your body and your brain. 1. Protein Rich diet makes you feel more full than an equivalent amount of calories from carbs. 2. Protein Rich diet leads to more weight loss in “free-living” humans as compared the ones who were force fed extra calories. 3. Protein Rich diet prevents gaining weight back after you have lost weight.5 4. Protein Rich diet speeds up metabolism and builds muscle so you burn more calories all day long and even while you sleep. Reducing belly fat and building muscle is quite simple. And it is not just about the calories you consume. It is about where those calories come from. Here are a few simple tips from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center that will help you to speed up your metabolism and get rid of belly fat:

1. Omit the sugar – in all of its forms. Especially liquid calories from any source (soda, juice, alcohol) all of which store belly fat. Be on a mission to get high fructose corn syrup out of your diet, it is especially good at laying down belly fat.

2. Trench the flour – wheat flour, especially, is just like sugar. Did you know that 2 slices of whole wheat bread raise your blood sugar more than 2 tablespoons of table sugar?

3. Jolt the day with protein not starch or sugar. Try whole omega-3 eggs, a protein shake, nut butters or even kippers! Skip the bagels, muffins and donuts. 4. Have protein with every meal – try nuts like almonds, walnuts or pecans, seeds like pumpkin, chia or hemp or have beans, chicken or fish. Somehow we are still duped by the idea that all calories are the same. They are not. Hopefully soon the practice of nutrition and medicine, and our government nutrition advice will catch up with the science. Then perhaps we can make a dent in the tsunami of obesity, diabetes and chronic disease coming right at us.

My personal hope is that together we can create a national conversation about a real, practical solution for the prevention, treatment, and reversal of our obesity, diabetes and chronic disease epidemic.

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