Not really, no. Despite the fact that people have known for decades that insulin is the trigger your body uses to store excess energy from food as fat, it remains a well-kept secret that insulin resistance makes you fat. Not only that, it prevents weight loss too.
The reason for this is that insulin resistance causes an eventual sustained rise in insulin levels. Insulin, in turn, promotes fat storage and prevents fat breakdown, so people with insulin resistance keep putting on more and more weight, and they can't seem to lose it by dieting or exercise. This is because conventional diets are based on restricting calories by increasing carbohydrate content, and decreasing dietary fat. For someone with insulin resistance, this simply does not work. In fact, these diets make things worse!
If you take into consideration the fact that at least one in four people is affected by insulin resistance, this may help to explain the current worldwide obesity epidemic. It is clearly not just because people are eating too much and exercising too little, although this does contribute to the problem. It is simply because people are eating the wrong foods.
This is great news for anyone who has been on these high carbohydrate, low calorie diets, and experienced the gnawing hunger and cravings that go hand in hand with them. Eating the right foods often results in effortless weight loss, as well as many other health benefits, such as an improvement in blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and a decreased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Conclusion? It is time to start eating the right foods. Avoid those conventional high carbohydrate diets…scientific studies have shown them to be less effective than low carbohydrate diets in achieving and maintaining weight loss. Try it – it could change your life.
Dr Guin Van Niekerk is the author of "Why Fat Sticks : An Introduction to Insulin Resistance" For more information go to
www.insulinresistancesite.com
Dr. Guin Van Niekerk qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Cape Town in 1997. It was while working a few years later as a general practitioner that she developed a strong interest in insulin resistance and its associated conditions. She subsequently ran a small metabolic syndrome clinic for her patients and discovered that the concept of insulin resistance was largely unknown to the public. This led to her decision to write the book, Why Fat Sticks. She resides in Oxfordshire. More information can be obtained at http://www.whyfatsticks.com.
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