Basel Labs

A little information if often a dangerous thing… and many
people trying low carb diets failed miserably in the long-run
because they took the concept to its extreme figuring that if
low-carb diets were good, then no-carb diets must be better?
Wrong!

One of the primary reasons why low carb diets are so successful
for a lot of people is that it forces them to remove the
nutrient-deficient junk food from their daily food intake. In
the last 20 years the average North American diet has become so
polluted with refined foods, sugars, and unhealthy fats that the
average American is now clinically obese!

Low carb diets owe their success to common sense more that any
“diet revelation”. When was it ever acceptable to consume
donuts, soda pop, Big Macs, deep-fried French fries and pizza on
a daily basis? As people’s lives became busier the advent of
fast food and convenience food grew by leaps and bounds. This
was all very convenient for busy families trying to get food on
the dinner table in time, but only now are we realizing the true
cost of this convenience.

Processed and refined foods alter foods from their natural
complex state, grinding them into fine powders that are easier
to handle, store, preserve, and use in the manufacturing
process. The unintended consequence of this refining process is
that it makes it much easier for your body to absorb the
carbohydrate glycogen energy from these foods, and creates large
spikes in blood glucose levels. This in turn puts additional
strain and stress on your body’s internal processes as they try
to compensate for these glucose spikes, and in the process tells
you body to store the energy as additional fat! In general,
carbohydrates that are consumed in their natural state take
longer to breakdown in your body, and the glucose release is
dampened, leading to lower overall blood glucose levels.

The success of low carb diets lies more in the fact that it
forces you to eliminate most refined carbohydrates, to eat foods
in their natural state, and eat foods that have a low caloric
density, which ultimately forces you to consume less calories!

If you’d like more ideas on how to incorporate delicious low
carb foods into your lifestyle you can search the recipe
database at: http://www.mylowcarbdietrecipes.com/myrecipes.asp