Low carb eating

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.

Low carb eating is more than just a diet, but a way of life for many, myself included. This is not something that you undertake until you lose X number of pounds, and then go back to the way you were eating before. This way of life helps you to not only lose weight, but to control Type 2 Diabetes, lower your cholesterol, lower your blood pressure, and even out your blood sugar levels, controlling hypoglycemia and hyperinsulism.

On a low-carb diet, you can eat until you're full, as long as you eat only allowed foods. Allowed foods are meats, fish, poultry, eggs, and cheese, plus a limited amount of green vegetables. Stay away from foods that contain sugar, honey, and large amounts of carbohydrate in the form of starch, especially bread and pastries. To create the energy that it needs, your body must burn fuel. If available, the carbohydrates are burned first. If you remove the carbohydrates (sugar), the body will then burn fat. One the fat is depleted, the body will burn protein as a last-resource fuel.