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on 9/29/2011
Posted by:
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on 9/29/2011
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How to Really Super-Charge Your Metabolism
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Just like the article above states at the end, the best confirmed way to really boost your metabolism is exercise.
When you exercise you clearly burn more calories, but you can super-charge your calorie burning mechanism even more by building muscle!
Why is this?
Because muscle demands energy to just “sit” on your body. Fat does not.
For every half kilogram of muscle that you gain, your body burns 50-70 calories more per day. That means, if you gain 5 Kg of muscle, your body will burn an additional 500-700 calories per day, and with proper diet, that equates to more or less guaranteed weight loss.
Everyone’s metabolism is different, but you can speed it up or slow it down within a reasonably short amount of time by making the following common-sense changes to your diet and lifestyle:
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Posted by:
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on 9/27/2011
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Controlling Your Appetite
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Lots of people are deciding to lose weight. Wonderful! Congratulations! However, many fear they cannot control their appetite and that hunger and cravings will spoil their weight-loss program. There are reasons why you may struggle to control your appetite and there are solutions to the problem.
UNCONTROLLED BLOOD SUGAR
Research shows many individuals simply cannot eat sugars and starches without losing control of their appetite, because unbalanced blood sugar levels are a major cause of food cravings. Examine your own appetite and the physical, emotional, and mental response you have to some foods like sugars chocolates and other processed carbohydrates.
When you eat a diet of processed carbohydrate foods (starches and sugars), they break down into sugar (glucose) quickly enters your blood stream.
Because your body cannot tolerate a high blood sugar, it produces the hormone insulin that removes sugar from the blood and deposits it into the cells.
If you eat these foods regularly, your body may then begin producing too much insulin and the opposite state - low blood sugar occurs. You may be familiar with the feelings of low blood sugar - being tired, irritable, even shaky and sweaty. To bring blood sugar levels up, your body sends your brain a chemical message saying, "I need sugar, eat some sugar." Hence you crave sodas, bread, biscuits, cakes, pasta, or anything with sugar or starch. In effect, carbohydrate cravings are a biochemical response to low blood sugar, and are not just a lack of willpower!
There are several foods and beverages that I call appetite-control foods. They make your stomach feel full, contain few calories and do not disturb your blood-sugar levels.
Fresh, clean water
That's right: water is a powerful appetite suppressant. If you drink an eight-ounce glass of water when you first start feeling hungry, you will find that it suppresses your appetite in nearly every case. Yes, drink a full glass of water and have the discipline to avoid eating for 10 minutes, and you will find that your appetite is either completely gone or dramatically reduced. Some experts suggest that often when we are dehydrated, we mistakenly interpret those signals from the body as hunger pangs, and reach for food instead of water.
Green tea
Green tea is an excellent beverage for appetite and weight control. It not only controls appetite but it stimulates the body's metabolism to burn fat, enhances energy levels, offers protection from several cancers, and is useful for hypertension and circulatory disorders. These benefits are not dependent on the small amount of natural caffeine found in green tea. Green tea can be had hot or cold with natural sweeteners. Adding milk to tea will rob it of some of its health benefits.
Green Vegetables:
Vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, field greens and other leafy vegetables contain so few calories that you hardly need to count them. Feel free to eat an unlimited quantity of green leafy vegetables. They are "free" foods that are rich in water, fiber, vitamins, minerals and cancer-fighting substances, while at the same time, they fill your stomach, make you feel full and turn off the hunger signals to your brain.
You can consume these green leafy vegetables in different ways. Cook them lightly or make a variety of different salads and add a low-calorie salad dressing like home-made olive oil and vinegar. Avoid commercial salad dressings that boast of being low fat and cholesterol free but contain MSG, high-fructose corn syrup, and other unhealthy ingredients.
Apples
Eat the largest apple you can find of either the Jamaican or American variety. Sure, they contain a few calories and some carbohydrates, but the apple will fill you up, and that will stop you from eating far more calorie-rich foods. The same is true for other not-so-sweet fruits like grapefruit and berries.
If you are very hungry, it's very easy to reach for some processed foods like a bag of chips or crackers, for example. You start nibbling and may consume 1,000 calories or more. But, it's almost impossible to eat 1,000 calories worth of apples or grapefruit. These fruits are great appetite suppressing foods because the fibre satisfies your hunger and turns off your appetite before you overeat. Plus, they contain various vitamins and minerals and anticancer agents.
Fibre supplements
When hungry, swallow a couple of fibre tablets, such as Manna Blood Sugar Support, before you begin eating. They create a feeling of fullness when taken with water. Always drink plenty of water when you take these tablets because without enough water, your digestive system may become sluggish.
Control your appetite with food and don't let food control you.
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Posted by:
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on 9/27/2011
Posted by:
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on 9/27/2011
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How To Make Your Butt Smaller
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Lose Fat Off Hips, Thighs and Butts
Do not go on any sort of hunger diet, where you’re depriving yourself of solid food and greens for days on end and only ingesting a “cleanse” fluid.
1. A number of foods go straight to our hips and legs.
It may surprise you to know that most people are lactose intolerant as adults, which means it’s hard for us to digest dairy food items through our bodies. And it may also astonish you to know that this is likely one of our greatest diet advantages over other cultures, because it causes us to remove the bulk of the foods that go right to our hips, legs and butt as fat!
Butter, milk, cheese, etc, all contribute to fat build up around our hips, and cellulite development on the backs of our thighs. Reduce your dairy consumption as far as possible, especially at dinner.
It’s ok to have a bit at breakfast, as your system is primed and ready to burn calories early in the morning. Just be certain not to overdo it, and vary your menu every day. See the FREE Manna menu plans.
2. Carbs are NOT the enemy…so long as they’re eaten in moderation.
It’s a real narrow line between having the ideal amount of carb calories each day, and having too many, which leads to quick fat accumulation. If you’re serious about needing to shed weight off your hips you’ll want to constantly follow this rule:
½ as much carbs as protein each and every meal.
What does it mean? It means if your main dish is chicken, or lean meat, or fish, you need to have half as large a chunk of a carb (bread, vegetables, fruit, rice) as the main item. No more than that.
Reduce carbs to prevent fat from reaching your lower half!
3. Eat a healthy salad ten minutes prior to your main dinner.
It’s something Asian families do regularly, eating light vegetable-based dishes before the main course of the meal.
The Ideal is to have a salad as an appetizer, 5 to 10 minutes prior to the principle meal, to get the body to produce the hormone which signals the brain that the need for fuel has been satisfied. This will prevent you from eating all your food at once, thus eating less when the principle meal is served; it’s a very powerful way to lose fat off our hips, legs and butt without suffering from hunger!
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Posted by:
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on 8/4/2011
Posted by:
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on 1/18/2011
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Why I Struggle to Lose Weight
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Insulin can be described as the fat storing hormone, as well as the hormone which can prevent you from burning fat.
Why am I Overweight and Struggling to Burn Fat?
You have to understand how Insulin works, before you will be able to understand weight gain and the reason why you can’t burn fat.
1. Our modern day diets include too much processed foods, which contain high amounts of sugar, fats and preservatives. Sugars and fats supply our bodies with energy, but the problem is that we consume too many carbohydrates, which elevate blood sugar levels, causing the pancreas to release a lot of insulin.
2. The constant high levels of insulin in the blood causes the cells to become resistant and they cannot store glucose anymore. This we call insulin resistance.
3. When the cells become resistant to insulin, insulin levels as well as glucose levels in the blood rises, which can cause type-2 diabetes.
The high levels of insulin in the blood prevents the cells from releasing the stored energy and that is why you cannot lose weight or burn any fat.
4. A lack of exercise is the next big problem, because blood glucose cannot be reduced if we don’t burn it by means of exercise.
So, we are diagnosed with either Insulin Resistance and/or diabetes, can’t lose weight and try to rectify it with medication.
If you take control of your health, you will be able to reverse all insulin related ailments.
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Posted by:
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on 1/17/2011
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5 Steps to Reverse Insulin Resistance & Type-2 Diabetes
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Understand Insulin
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Reduce all carbohydrates in your diet, at least until you have recovered your health. To keep insulin levels as low as possible is of the utmost importance and the first step to achieve this is by manipulating the body through diet and exercise to require very little insulin.
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Exercise is non-negotiable. Start walking for at least 30 t0 45 minutes per day. A brisk walk will do, because you have to burn the excess glucose in the blood, reduce the insulin levels as well as to stimulate the cells to release the stored energy.
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Enough Sleep is also very important, to give your body time to recover.
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Follow the FREE Manna 7-Day Damage Control Program to repair the damage done over many years and then follow the FREE Manna Low GI/GL menu plans and recipes. Determine your Metabolic Type to realise which types of food you have to eat more of to perform at your best. Complete the Metabolic Questionaire.
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Manna Blood Sugar Support, the FREE Manna LOW GI Menu plans and exercise daily will help to keep your blood sugar levels even, which will then preventing Insulin related ailments, such as...
- High Blood Sugar (Hyperglycemia)
- Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycemia)
- Cravings
- Overweight / Obesity
- Insulin Resistance
- PCOS
- Candida
- Diabetes Type-2
- ADHD
If you don’t have Insulin Problems but still want to lose weight, follow the FREE Manna Low GI Menu Plans and use the Manna Shake as a meal replacement to substitute some of the meals for fast and effective weight loss.
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Posted by:
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on 1/11/2011
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Most Effective Weight Loss Strategy
Manna Health Products compiled the 5 most important weight loss strategies from our experience of 2010.
The word diet is used widely these days. Almost every week there is a new “Best Diet” or “a Miracle Diet Pill” which are promoted either on TV, Radio or in the Magazines.
Only proven strategies can really assist you.
There are some diets who advocate NO carbs at all. You cannot live on protein alone, because your organs will be unable to cope.
Here is our step-by-step strategy for effective weight loss.
1. Struggling to lose weight, no matter which diet you follow or the amount of exercise you do?
The chance is that you are insulin resistant. Insulin resistance normally occurs when your metabolism is messed up due to irregular eating habits or skipping meals too often. Fad or quick diets are major contributors for messing up your metabolism.
2. To Reverse Insulin Resistance (Pre-Diabetes) you have to do 2 things.
a. Get your metabolism to perform properly – A Proper eating strategy
Note that this program advocate a LOW carb intake and not a NO carb intake. You will get enough carbohydrates from your greens and salads. Try to stay away from bread, potatoes, pasta and rice for the first 7 days.
If there are some of the proteins you don’t like or can’t eat, substitute it with the type of protein you do like.
To get your metabolism to function properly, you must not skip meals or get hungry.
Remember to snack, but only on low GI, healthy snacks if you get hungry between meals.
b. Lower Insulin and Sugar levels in the blood stream – Decent Exercise
Insulin Resistance occurs when the cells in the body becomes resistant to Insulin and cannot perform it’s function properly.
A build up of Insulin & sugar occur, causing you to have high blood sugar levels and preventing you to lose weight, as the cells cannot open up to release energy because of high levels of insulin trying to store more energy in the same cells.
Exercise is the only way to burn the excess sugar in the blood and to lower insulin levels so that the cells can open up to release the stored energy. (Burn fat)
Do any form of exercise you prefer, as long as you do it for at least 30 minutes per day and build up a good sweat. See the video as example. (Do it with music)
NOTE: Only a Low carbohydrate eating strategy, like the 7-day damage control program, and exercise can reverse insulin resistance and get you to burn fat.
Tip: When you do a good amount of exercise each day and don’t lose weight fast enough according to your calculations, you might be building a bit a muscle which is heavier than fat. Do not only watch the scale, look at how your clothes fit.
Use the scale, but also use a measuring tape to take measurements around your middle and thighs to see the results of your new lifestyle.
3. Drink Water
As you change you’re eating pattern and commence with exercise, your body will release toxins. Water is essential to remove toxins from your body. Drink at lest 6 to 8 glasses of pure water per day. If you want to be successful with your weight loss strategy, you have to cut on the soft drinks coffee and tea. Rather put a few drops of lemon juice in the water for a little bit of taste.
4. Lifestyle change – Not a Diet
See this strategy, program or whatever you want to call it as a lifestyle change and not a diet. Once you have come to understand how your body reacts to certain foods, you will be more careful to eat the “wrong” types of food in the future.
It is difficult to sustain a diet, but to change your lifestyle and eating habits for your bebefit, you need to do a change of mind.
5. Never go Hungry - It is important to carry snacks with you, because hunger is one of the major culprits, causing us to eat “wrong” foods when our blood sugar levels drop.
6. Sleep Enough – 6 to 8 hours of sleep is very important, because enough sleep will help to restore your bodies’ functions.
If you don’t sleep enough, you tend to crave the “wrong” foods during the day and because your body’s functions have not been restored properly, it will be tougher to lose weight.
You can replace some of the meals with the Manna Low GI shake for ultimate weight control and energy.
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Posted by:
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on 1/6/2011
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on 1/4/2011
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| 25 Best Weight-Loss Tips for 2011 |
- Set a realistic weight-loss goal. Most experts recommend aiming for ½ kg to 1kg a week.
- Keep track. Research shows that dieters who keep track of everything they eat lose twice as much weight as those who don't.
- Motivate yourself. Get a pair of jeans or pants that are too tight and hang them in the kitchen instead of the closet to keep yourself inspired.
- Get help from family and friends. Studies show that dieters who have support from a partner at home loses more weight than those who do not have support.
- Move it to lose it. Research shows that people who do physical activities such as walking or biking for two to four hours a week during weight-loss efforts loses an extra 1,5 to 2,5 Kg in a 12 month period.
- Pay attention to portions. A 100g portion of meat, poultry or fish is about the size of the palm of your hand or a deck of cards; 1 teaspoon of butter or margarine, a standard postage stamp; a cup of cold cereal, berries or popcorn, a tennis ball; 100mmØ pancake or waffle, the diameter of a CD.
- Clean out your pantry and refrigerator. Get rid of the foods that sabotages your weight loss.
- Create "a dinner deck." This would include 10 favorite quick and healthful dinners written on index cards. Each card should list the ingredients for the recipe on one side and directions for making it on the other.
- Avoid hunger. Eat regular meals and snacks. Make sure you have some protein foods such as yogurt, tuna, beans or chicken for most meals. Proteïen helps you feel satisfied for longer.
- Keep produce on hand. Place a bowl of vegetables such as broccoli, snap peas, cucumbers or carrot sticks in the refrigerator. You may eat them as a snack or when preparing meals to take the edge off your hunger.
- Stock up on "impulse fruits." Keep fruit like grapes, small apples, small bananas and pears around the house. These foods are easy to eat without having to do cutting and slicing.
- Make some stealth changes. That will get everyone in the family eating healthier. Buy low-fat 1% or skim milk, low-fat cream cheese and reduced-fat cheese instead of the full-fat versions. Use them in recipes to cut the fat and calories.
- Cut out liquid calories. Eliminate soda and sugary drinks such as sweetened iced tea, sport drinks and alcoholic beverages. Liven up the taste of water by adding lemon, lime, cucumber or mint. Choose skim and 1% milk.
- Practice the "Rule of One." When it comes to high-calorie foods, you won't go wrong if you allow one small treat a day. That might be one cookie or a fun-sized candy bar.
- Pace, don't race. Force yourself to eat more slowly and savour each bite.
- Hydrate before meals. Drinking 500ml, or two glasses, of water before meals will help you to eat less.
- Downsize plates, bowls, glasses, silverware. Using smaller versions of your serving ware will help you eat less.
- Adopt the motto "after 8 is too late" for snacks after dinner.
- Buy a pedometer. Health experts recommend taking at least 10,000 steps a day, which is roughly 6 to 7 km, depending on your stride length.
- Treat yourself occasionally. If your chocolate craving is getting you down, try diet hot-chocolate packets. If you need a treat, go out for it or buy small prepackaged portions of ice cream bars. If you love chocolate, consider keeping bite-size pieces in the freezer.
- Dine at a table. Eat from a plate while seated at a table. Don't eat while driving, lounging on the couch or standing at the fridge.
- Dine out without pigging out. Figure out what you are going to eat in advance. Get salad dressing on the side. Restaurants usually put about one-quarter cup (4 tablespoons) of dressing on a salad, which is often too many calories. Best to stick with 1 to 2 tablespoons. Dip your fork into the dressing and then into the salad.
- Get plenty of sleep. Scientists have found that sleep deprivation increases levels of a hunger hormone and decreases levels of the hormone that causes you to feel satisfied. The effects may lead to overeating and weight gain.
- Weigh yourself regularly. This is what successful dieters and those who manage to maintain weight loss do. Some step on the scales once a week. Others do so daily.
- Reward yourself. When you meet your initial weight loss goal, say losing 2,5kg, treat yourself to something — but not food. Buy a CD or DVD you've been wanting or go out to a movie with a friend.
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Posted by:
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on 12/21/2010
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Extra pounds are a recipe for diabetes
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It seems like everyone packs on a few extra pounds this time of year.
Between the Christmas roast and New Year's Eve revelry, we all eat a bit more than usual.
But for many, extra pounds, paired with high blood pressure and an elevated cholesterol level, is a recipe for diabetes.
Diabetes is often called a "silent killer" because there may be no noticeable symptoms during the early stages of the disease. Diabetes affects the body's ability to use sugar. Treatment may be as simple as adjusting your diet or may require daily medication.
Most people find out they have diabetes when they go for routine medical checkup.
If you are older than 40, especially if you have a family history of diabetes or if you are overweight, you have to have your blood sugar levels tested at least once a year.
You should be extra cautious if you have other health concerns.
Diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are often in harmony.
If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, help and information are as close as the Manna website, packed with tips, FREE Low GI Menu Plans and a lot of extra health related issues.
If you've been told you're 'pre-diabetic' or 'borderline,' you should learn more about diabetes. In most cases you can prevent diabetes by improving your eating habits and increased exercise.
Type 2 Diabetes does not have to be a a lifetime disease, because with the right nutrition and exercise, you can reverse diabetes successfully. Be on your guard and always control your sugar and your weight or you can backslide.
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Posted by:
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on 12/21/2010
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| Carbohydrate reduction reverts obesity |
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Counting calories is essential to a diet. Have you ever stopped to think about the amount of carbohydrates in your diet.
Top nutritional scientists state that carbohydrates are one of the major culprits of bad health and obesity problems.
By decreasing the intake of carbohydrates in a diet, obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and hypertension can be reversed.
Fat is not the issue. If people would reduce or eliminate the consumption of sugary beverages, white bread, pasta, potatoes, white rice and sugary snacks, nearly all the issues of health would be eradicated in the area of weight, diabetes and metabolic diseases.
Carbohydrates including sugar change into sugar in the blood and the more refined the carbohydrates are the faster the change occurs.
Upon consuming white pasta, French fries or a slice of white bread, it quickly turns into sugar in the blood. To control blood sugar, the pancreas makes insulin, which sends sugar into cells, where it is kept as fuel in the form of glycogen.
Even in a totally healthy metabolism, the body becomes tired of processing high amounts of carbs, causing the body's response to insulin to diminish.
As cells become more resistant to instructions from insulin, the pancreas must produce more insulin to push the amount of glucose into the cells. When people become insulin resistant, carbohydrates become more of a challenge to the body.
When the pancreas becomes tired and cannot make insulin to maintain glucose in the blood, the development of diabetes occurs.
The first warning sign of insulin resistance is metabolic syndrome, a major warning that diabetes and the possibility for heart disease is near. The syndrome is thought to occur when people have three or more of the following:
- high blood triglycerides (more than 150 mg)
- high blood pressure (over 135/85)
- central obesity (a waist circumference in men of more than 40 inches and in women, more than 35 inches)
- low HDL cholesterol (under 40 in men, under 50 in women)
- or elevated fasting glucose.
The answer is to follow the FREE Manna Low GI Menu Plans and Recipes and exercise.
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Posted by:
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on 12/14/2010
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Protein rich diets are beneficial for Diabetics and Weigh Loss
Eating more protein and less refined carbohydrates helps you to control blood sugar levels and lose weight.
Studies about weight-control diets that are high in protein (with a low glycemic index) have reached varied conclusions.
The glycemic index is a measure of the ability of carbohydrates to increase blood glucose levels; those with a low GI cause blood glucose levels to increase more slowly.
To study how a high-protein and low carbohydrate diet influences weight loss, researchers evaluated 938 Americans with an average body-mass index (BMI) of 34, which is considered obese. In all, 773 participants completed the initial weight-loss phase and were then assigned to one of five different maintenance plans: Low-protein diet, (13% of energy) with a high glycemic index (GI); Low protein, low GI diet; High protein (25% of energy), low GI diet; High protein, high GI diet and the control group, which had no special instructions.
During the weight-loss period of eight weeks, participants lost an average of 10 kg. All five maintenance diets had a moderate fat content, about 25 percent to 30 percent of total calories. After six months, it was found that the 548 participants, who completed the programme had an average weight gain of half a kg.
Those in the low-protein / high-GI group showed the worst results, with a weight gain averaging 2 kg. Those on the low-GI diet had an average weight gain of almost a kg less than those on the high-GI diet.
The findings show that a high-protein, low-glycemic index carbohydrate diet may be more effective than conventional approaches in weight maintenance because of a possibly stronger satiating effect and more balanced blood sugar regulation.
There has been considerable controversy over the role of glycemic index in general, and obesity treatment in particular. This study provides very strong, supportive evidence for the importance of this low-glycemic concept.
Based on the findings, the researchers recommended consuming low-glycemic index carbohydrates, such as whole-grain breads.
Follow the FREE Manna Low GI Menu plans or the 7-Day Damage Control Program
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Posted by:
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on 12/13/2010
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