Pain for beauty, it has become a common adage for women. Phenomenon willing to suffer for beauty is not only the range and willing to help sore cramps while wearing high heels, but has expanded into operative actions to obtain a perfect performance as the prevailing social standards.
However, since the era of Queen Cleopatra to the current urban women, diet for slim body is an example of pain for beauty is crushed timeless time. As time went on, how to diet, too, evolved.
Of limiting yourself to only eat foods with vegetables, fruits, and fresh fish a la Cleopatra, regular drinking herb teas like the daughters of China, until the low-carb diet has become a favorite of urban women, both to lose weight or to maintain it.
What makes low-carb diets as the right solution to get a slim body? Take for example the Atkins diet, which is one variant of low-carbohydrate diets that are now popular among Hollywood artists.
Dr. Robert Atkins, the initiators, in his book says, the diet called Atkins nutritional approach is a revolution in losing weight without torturing yourself with starve.
“Dr. Atkins did research of various medical journals and found that low-carb diet is the perfect solution for those who want to lose weight without feeling tortured by hunger constant. The diet is not engineering, even more as a guide to nutrition for the body more healthy, “said Director of Research and Development Collette Heimowitz Atkins Nutritionals is.
Low-carbohydrate diets, like Atkins diet, is actually a combination of restriction of carbohydrate intake and increased consumption of protein and fat, either vegetable or animal.
Something that makes low-carb diets became popular because of high success in dealing with excess weight. Besides this diet helps lower blood cholesterol levels, diabetes risk mengurasi, and prevent heart attacks.
So, how do low-carb diets work really? Heimowitz explained that the low-carb diet will stimulate the body’s metabolism to burn more fat reserves for the low carbohydrate intake.
“What we eat everyday are mostly complex carbohydrates, like rice, bread, pasta, junk food, too,” said Heimowitz.
Basically carbohydrates that contain glucose is the energy source of the most easily broken down body protein or fat than the basic material of amino acids and fatty acids.
Carbohydrates explained it took 4 hours, whereas protein and fat take 6 hours to digest the body. It also makes those who consume more carbohydrates hungry faster.
With low-carbohydrate diets, complex carbohydrate intake will be reduced so that the body will be provoked to produce energy through fat reserves and higher.
“Proteins and fats require more time to digest completely, because it was the hunger will be captured,” he explained.
He also explained that consume large amounts of carbohydrates will only increase the weight because the rest of carbohydrate metabolism will be stored as fat.
Not only reduces weight significantly, compared to other diets, low-carb diet can also reduce the risk of diabetes. Even the diet is highly recommended for those who suffer from diabetes and want to lose weight.
Researchers from Sweden, Jorge told Vesti Nielsen, low-carb diet good for diabetics because of the low carbohydrate intake is reduced glucose production that would trigger an increase in insulin.
This is evidenced by Nielsen study involving 16 subjects with excess body weight diabetes, it can reduce weight, while controlling blood glucose with a low-carb diet.
