You may have already found an effective approach to dieting. If not, a “low sugar diet” is a simple place to start. One of the key changes in our diet in the last 50 years is a massive increase in the consumption of refined sugars.
We are consuming massive amounts of sugar compared to our predecessors. That excess sugar is converted to fat.
Another problem with our high sugar consumption is that the body needs to release large amounts of insulin to process it. This in turn causes low sugar levels which makes us feel rough and crave sugar to get relief. Long term our tissues can develop resistance to the insulin and the pancreas can have problems producing enough, leading to the development of Diabetes Mellitus. There is a strong relationship between obesity and the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes:
The following advice is based on the book “Sweet poison, why sugar makes us fat”:
If you want to lose weight what you eat will make a more significant contribution to weight loss than exercise. This is because you actually need to do quite a lot of exercise to burn off the equivalent calories consumed:
| 150 calories | Can of soft drink | Ride a bike 8km |
| 294 calories | Chocolate bar | Swim laps for 1 hour |
| 515 calories | Burger | Run 6km |
From the point of view of losing weight it would be easier not to consume the excess calories in the first place. When you think about the content of most sports drinks it doesn’t really make sense to be using them in the context of attempts to lose weight.
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