"And that, folks, is how sugar is transformed into fat. It’s not magic; it’s the horrid inevitability of eating lots of carbs.
Insulin also blocks the flow of fat out of adipose tissue. If you continue to eat lots of carbohydrates, your fat stores will remain locked away."
Thank you for sharing this information in such an easy-to-understand way. Hopefully, you can get the message out there and help people understand what's going on in their bodies!
I've been handing out recently published book "Good Energy' to dear friends already on improved health journeys, recently published by former Ear/Nose/Throat MD, Casey Means. She does a deep dive into mitochondria and ATP, and how food is medicine so get as much whole foods as possible. It sometimes clicks for people when you point out that we were all born as a 3D rendering of our mothers and the quality of the baby is based on ingredients used to make. Casey was born a 'big baby' (over 10lbs) and learned that her macrosomia condition put her at higher risk for obesity, diabetes, heart disease.
Great, great advice Maria. I’ve helped control and reduce my weight by incorporating nuts into my daily diet, especially walnuts, which keep me feeling full and not snacking between meals, which I used to do a lot. Especially eat nuts w/ dinner. I’ve found the ‘no eating after 8pm’ is the main cheat code though. As you say, the body can’t burn visceral fat until you’re in fasting mode, and we’re supposed to enter that mode every night. Snack in evening, your body is just burning that food. I’m also on journey to eliminate canola oil from my diet. Boy is it hard the cut out processed foods, they are everywhere! Removing them is also pretty $ spendy. Besides sleeping well, to boost circadian rhythm I’ve tried to make a point of going outside and taking the sun on my face within 15min of wake up.
It's great to hear from someone who can confirm what I've written! Works well for me too. Now you've just got canola oil to overcome.... I save the fat from cooking meat and use that for cooking, as well as butter and extra virgin olive oil. The latter truly is getting a bit pricey, though.
On the canola oil, I'm meaning the kind that is incorporated into processed foods that is hidden oil. Sunflower oil as well. Like stuff in granola or power bars, flour tortillas and pretty much everything I’ve eaten most of my life, but now changing away from. I've been using the EWG app to check food ingredients https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/ and it's how I arrived at pairing Dave's Killer Bread organic power seed with my Adam's peanut butter for breakfast. It was the most 'unprocessed' carbs w/ lowest refined sugars I could easily locate, afford and still enjoy. Maria, do you approve of this app or perhaps have a better/different app to suggest? For cooking, I'm using olive oil and now recently tried avocado oil.
This is an amazing article - a huge congrats on this.
The only thing you could add is the exact type of Amino Acids needed in Proteins, which is really well explained in the book "Search for the Perfect Protein" by Dr David Minkoff.
The excretion of Nitrogen is a great test on how successful protein is taken up in the body; without the right combination, the leftover Amino Acids get "Kicked out", and end up in urine (the process is explained better in Acid and Alkaline by Aihara, Herman). The more complex the protein Like muscle), the less likely you have the right combination of amino acids (e.g insulin needs 51 amino acids, Actin - responsible for muscle action - needs 6,100).
This is why Essential Amino Acids have "Zero Calories", because under 30gms, they expel no nitrogen in urine (assuming you also have those minerals you mentioned above). They're the transformers of Amino Acids, turning into non-Essential amino acids that the body needs, but are only converted with the help of certain minerals.
Amino Acids build the bricks, Minerals are the tools that build the house. If you're missing certain amino acids, bricks aren't built.
Hallelujah, Sister… preach it. All of this is so misunderstood by the medical establishment it is laughable.
"And that, folks, is how sugar is transformed into fat. It’s not magic; it’s the horrid inevitability of eating lots of carbs.
Insulin also blocks the flow of fat out of adipose tissue. If you continue to eat lots of carbohydrates, your fat stores will remain locked away."
Thank you for sharing this information in such an easy-to-understand way. Hopefully, you can get the message out there and help people understand what's going on in their bodies!
Doing my best, Tim! Please share so that more people can avoid the futility of calorie counting and take the much easier route.
I've been handing out recently published book "Good Energy' to dear friends already on improved health journeys, recently published by former Ear/Nose/Throat MD, Casey Means. She does a deep dive into mitochondria and ATP, and how food is medicine so get as much whole foods as possible. It sometimes clicks for people when you point out that we were all born as a 3D rendering of our mothers and the quality of the baby is based on ingredients used to make. Casey was born a 'big baby' (over 10lbs) and learned that her macrosomia condition put her at higher risk for obesity, diabetes, heart disease.
Great, great advice Maria. I’ve helped control and reduce my weight by incorporating nuts into my daily diet, especially walnuts, which keep me feeling full and not snacking between meals, which I used to do a lot. Especially eat nuts w/ dinner. I’ve found the ‘no eating after 8pm’ is the main cheat code though. As you say, the body can’t burn visceral fat until you’re in fasting mode, and we’re supposed to enter that mode every night. Snack in evening, your body is just burning that food. I’m also on journey to eliminate canola oil from my diet. Boy is it hard the cut out processed foods, they are everywhere! Removing them is also pretty $ spendy. Besides sleeping well, to boost circadian rhythm I’ve tried to make a point of going outside and taking the sun on my face within 15min of wake up.
It's great to hear from someone who can confirm what I've written! Works well for me too. Now you've just got canola oil to overcome.... I save the fat from cooking meat and use that for cooking, as well as butter and extra virgin olive oil. The latter truly is getting a bit pricey, though.
On the canola oil, I'm meaning the kind that is incorporated into processed foods that is hidden oil. Sunflower oil as well. Like stuff in granola or power bars, flour tortillas and pretty much everything I’ve eaten most of my life, but now changing away from. I've been using the EWG app to check food ingredients https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/ and it's how I arrived at pairing Dave's Killer Bread organic power seed with my Adam's peanut butter for breakfast. It was the most 'unprocessed' carbs w/ lowest refined sugars I could easily locate, afford and still enjoy. Maria, do you approve of this app or perhaps have a better/different app to suggest? For cooking, I'm using olive oil and now recently tried avocado oil.
This is an amazing article - a huge congrats on this.
The only thing you could add is the exact type of Amino Acids needed in Proteins, which is really well explained in the book "Search for the Perfect Protein" by Dr David Minkoff.
The excretion of Nitrogen is a great test on how successful protein is taken up in the body; without the right combination, the leftover Amino Acids get "Kicked out", and end up in urine (the process is explained better in Acid and Alkaline by Aihara, Herman). The more complex the protein Like muscle), the less likely you have the right combination of amino acids (e.g insulin needs 51 amino acids, Actin - responsible for muscle action - needs 6,100).
This is why Essential Amino Acids have "Zero Calories", because under 30gms, they expel no nitrogen in urine (assuming you also have those minerals you mentioned above). They're the transformers of Amino Acids, turning into non-Essential amino acids that the body needs, but are only converted with the help of certain minerals.
Amino Acids build the bricks, Minerals are the tools that build the house. If you're missing certain amino acids, bricks aren't built.