Healthy Weight Loss — Without Dietingresearch showing that individuals who develop insulin resistance—
and at the same time obtain a high percent of their total calories
from fat—have a greater chance of gaining weight and becoming
obese than individuals who have insulin resistance but obtain only
a moderate percent of total calories from fat.
How the World’s Healthiest Foods Can Help Prevent
Insulin Resistance and Unwanted Weight Gain
There are three basic ways in which your diet can help prevent insulin
resistance. Fortunately, the World’s Healthiest Foods can help you
in each of these three basic ways.
First is the task of avoiding, or getting rid of, excess abdominal fat.
(If you are already overweight and already have increased fat around
the middle section, you will still want to avoid the addition of more
abdominal fat.) Since the risk of insulin resistance increases as the
amount of abdominal fat gets larger, this step seems like an important
one. So even if you’ve already got too much fat around the middle
section, or if your waistline is fine and you are simply trying to avoid
unwanted weight gain around your middle, you’ll want make the
World’s Healthiest Foods more of a priority in your diet since they
are the key to reduced risk of insulin resistance. Even though there is
no way to “spot reduce”and lose fat pounds exclusively from your
middle section, overall weight loss will include loss of fat from your
middle section, and you can accomplish this overall weight loss
most effectively with nutrient-rich World’s Healthiest Foods.
Second is the task of avoiding a high-fat diet. People who develop
insulin resistance—and at the same time obtain a high percent of
their total calories from fat—have a greater chance of gaining
weight than people who have insulin resistance but obtain only a
moderate percent of total calories from fat. As you’ll see, the menus
that I provide in the Healthy Weight Loss Eating Planprovide an
average of 249 total calories from fat. This is ideal for moderatingfat
intake and keeping the risk of weight gain down from an insulin re-
sistance standpoint.