What is a Low Carb Diet?
The Basics… People diet for two primary reasons, to lose weight, or to improve health–or both. If you are a healthy adult who is not overweight and who has no family members who are obese, the food pyramid recommendations of the USDA will work fine, as long as you remember that the carbohydrates that are recommended are those contained in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. However, even those who are healthy and who are not overweight can maintain their health and vitality by following a reduced carbohydrate lifestyle. (See Syndrome-X, below). For those who are overweight, or who have diabetes, the low-calorie and low-fat diets recommended by the government do not work well. In fact, for diabetics, they can actually worsen the condition. The only diet that strikes at the real cause of obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, hypoglycemia, and type 2 diabetes is a low-carbohydrate diet. Many doctors and nutritionists are now starting to recognize this. There are many differ
A low carb diet is the opposite to a low fat diet. To achieve a feeling off well-being and, in most cases, weight loss, it is necessary to rethink your way of eating. A low carb diet requires you to limit your intake of sugars and carbohydrates. The body needs energy to function, it will take whatever is available and convert it to glycogen if you don’t eat sugars and carbs the body will metabolise the fats for its energy source. Restricted foods include sugar, bread, cereals, pasta and potatoes. You can eat all meats, fish, dairy, most vegetables and some fruits.
