I regularly
overhear average people proclaiming to each other, "You're probably
eating too many carbs." as the final answer to the other person's
training and diet dilemna. There are several problems with limiting carbohydrates
from your diet:
- Carbohydrates
(fruits, grains, vegetables) are where you get the majority of your
vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
- You cannot
burn fat without the presence of glucose (carbohydrates).
- Eating
too few carbs, in an attempt to access bodyfat, lowers your basal metabolic
rate. After a few weeks of restricted carbs, your body has adapted to
a new, lower intake. What do you think will happen when you decide that
you've reached your goal, and you go back to the way you really want
to eat? That's right, you'll get fat again.
Higher fat
diets currently in vogue ("Zone", Atkins, 40-30-30) are intentional
undereating programs. They know that if you were to follow their diet,
but eat carbs, you would have trouble limiting your total caloric intake
to their allowable levels. But by eating more proteins and fat, you can
trick your brain into not being hungry as often. Eating fat makes your
brain think you're full; like dessert after dinner.
These diets
are useful to some people, under some conditions; if you are an endurance
athlete performing for more than two and one-half hours at a time, or
if you are intentionally undereating for a period of less than six weeks
to lose bodyfat.
If you really
want to find out if a higher protein, lower carb diet is right for you,
you don't have to buy expensive products with a magic formula. You can
buy your own protein powders or meal replacement mixes. Save some money
by doing it yourself.
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