Summary of Eric Westman & Amy Berger's End Your Carb Confusion

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The problems many people face these days come on slowly. They develop over years, and you don’t even notice they’re happening until they’re out of control.
#2 The very foods we’ve been told to eat for years-carbohydrate-rich foods-don’t give us the nutrients we need to feel full, nor do they keep us from feeling hungry. They just don’t work.
#3 The laws of thermodynamics, which state that a system is only ever open or closed, are not valid in the human body. An open system is the human body, and the number of calories in a given food is meaningless. What is important is what those calories are used for.
#4 The notion of calories is flawed, so instead of relying on them, we should rely on the general rule that fat provides 9 calories per gram, and carbohydrates and protein each provide 4 calories per gram. Thus, 1 gram of fat provides more than double the calories of 1 gram of either carbohydrate or protein.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Diet

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669351009
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Eric Westman & Amy Berger's End Your Carb Confusion
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The problems many people face these days come on slowly. They develop over years, and you don’t even notice they’re happening until they’re out of control.

#2

The very foods we’ve been told to eat for years-carbohydrate-rich foods-don’t give us the nutrients we need to feel full, nor do they keep us from feeling hungry. They just don’t work.

#3

The laws of thermodynamics, which state that a system is only ever open or closed, are not valid in the human body. An open system is the human body, and the number of calories in a given food is meaningless. What is important is what those calories are used for.

#4

The notion of calories is flawed, so instead of relying on them, we should rely on the general rule that fat provides 9 calories per gram, and carbohydrates and protein each provide 4 calories per gram. Thus, 1 gram of fat provides more than double the calories of 1 gram of either carbohydrate or protein.

#5

Eat less, move more sounds so logical. But this advice ignores basic biology. It doesn’t work on the road, and it doesn’t work in your body, either. Your body will slow your metabolism if you don’t give it enough fuel to keep up with your increased energy demands.

#6

Hunger is the main issue with the advice to base your diet on starchy carbohydrates and keep fat intake low. No one can stick to a diet that makes them hungry all the time.

#7

The ADAPT Your Life Diet is a way of eating that works with, rather than against, your body’s natural hunger and cravings. It will teach you how to control those urges, and it won’t leave you feeling hungry all the time.

#8

When you eat carbohydrates, your blood sugar rises. Some types of carbs have a more significant effect on blood sugar than others, but as a general rule, carbs affect blood sugar more than protein and fat do.

#9

People who are sensitive to carbohydrates and get hypoglycemic feel the need to eat often. Eating frequently does help raise blood sugar, but it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem.

#10

If your blood sugar drops too low because of the flood of insulin after a high-carb meal or snack, don’t just eat more carbs to try to make up for it. Instead, just stop eating those carbs. You can manage a crisis in the moment by dealing with the acute situation, but if you want to fix the problem, you must address the cause.

#11

Refined sugar, on the other hand, does not provide any of the vitamins or minerals your body needs to break it down, so it does not give you any energy. It only steals nutrients from your body and makes you need more from elsewhere.

#12

Having your blood glucose measured in a fasting state is a part of standard bloodwork. However, fasting glucose can be slightly elevated for several reasons, some of which could give you and your doctor the false impression that you’re less healthy than you really are.

#13

Glycation is the process of proteins and fats in your body becoming sticky with sugar. It leads to the accumulation of damaging substances in your body, such as glycated hemoglobin, which is an indicator of how much your blood sugar has been elevated over the previous three months.

#14

Neuropathy, or nerve damage, is a common complication of diabetes that can result in numbness and pain in the feet. It is also connected to erectile dysfunction.

#15

If you’re happy with your weight and don’t have health concerns, but you feel like a slave to sugar, then the addiction is compromising your mental and emotional health.

#16

You can’t beat the sugar beast by willpower. You’ll have to learn to resist its allure. The ADAPT Your Life Diet teaches you how.

#17

Hormones other than insulin have many functions. They affect many different parts of the body and regulate and participate in countless biochemical processes. Insulin is no different.

#18

Insulin is like a security guard that stands outside your fat cells and makes sure the fat doesn’t escape.

#19

Insulin is also responsible for high blood pressure and gout, as it helps retain sodium and water, which can lead to high blood pressure and gout.

#20

Gout, similarly to the case of high blood pressure, is a disease that stems from an excess of uric acid in the body. Uric acid is a compound that is naturally present in the body and is produced by the breakdown of purines. If you have gout, you can consume as much meat and shellfish as you want, as long as you keep your carb intake low.

#21

High insulin levels can lead to erectile dysfunction and low testosterone in men, as well as breast enlargement and increased estrogen in men and women, and irregular periods and ovulation in women.

#22

The solution to metabolic syndrome is simple: lower your insulin level. You can do this by cutting back on the amount of carbohydrate you eat. But because metabolic syndrome is the commonly accepted term, I’ll be using that here as well.

#23

not everyone who is overweight has type 2 diabetes, and not everyone with type 2 diabetes has obesity, but they all have the same root cause, which is chronically high insulin levels.

#24

Having high insulin levels, whether from type 2 diabetes or obesity, is extremely detrimental to your health.