LowCarb Diets and Hormonal Havoc
It’s no surprise that Americans started to gain weight steadily since the low-fat
diet dogma of the 1980s and 1990s, because we ate too many bad carbohydrates.
Low-fat diets are simply out of balance. A fatfree muffin for breakfast has over
450 calories, which is plenty to give you the energy needed early in the day. But
in no time you’ll feel hungry since your body will quickly convert this white
flour into sugar. You feel hungry because your insulin will go out of whack
before it’s even lunchtime. You overeat when you crave the same food that
caused your insulin to go on a roller coaster in the first place. Low-fat diets also
encourage the wrong types of fats, which leads to the disruption of other
hormones. As a result, many Americans gave up on the low-fat message and
turned to a different, or should I say opposite, approach: lowcarb diets. Now you
know why lowcarb diet books became huge best sellers and helped millions lose
weight: they balanced the insulin levels of dieters who had been encouraged to
eat more fat and less sugar and bad carbs.
With the news all over the media, lowcarb diets really took off. Diet industry
watchers estimate that 30 million Americans are currently on lowcarb diets. I
admire the advocates of such diets, such as Dr. Robert Atkins and many of his
successors, who fought conventional wisdom and realized the failure of the
earlier low-fat approach. But if you are on the lowcarb diet du jour, I have news
for you: lowcarb diets aren’t any better for your hormones or health.
Have you ever been on one? Perhaps you’ve heard some positive research on
lowcarb diets. You’ve read that followers lost weight and their cholesterol went
down, so you decided to give it a try. Maybe you lost some weight and felt a
little better after giving your insulin a break, but ultimately you failed to achieve
long-lasting results. If you failed on a lowcarb diet, you may think there is
something wrong with you. I can tell you this: there is nothing wrong with you.
Lowcarb diets create havoc with your hormones, too. Let me explain.
On the Atkins Diet, you eat eggs, bacon, and red meat, and you limit all carbs,
including those from vegetables and fruit. On the South Beach Diet, you eat lean
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