Life Healing Food Blog

LONGEVITY BLOG

How Food and Lifestyle Can Extend Life
  • Blog

22/8/2019

REDUCE WEIGHT WITHOUT EXERCISING - HOW TO REDUCE belly fat

0 Comments

Read Now
 
You want to have minimal insulin resistance. Since insulin signals your body to store fat, you want your body to function with the least amount of insulin required.

This will help you stay thinner. It is many times more effective than exercising.

Here are ways to reduce insulin resistance in your body.
  1. Don’t eat constantly : Whenever you eat you produce glucose which means you need inulin. Constant exposure to insulin will cause insulin resistance.
  2. Eat only 4 times, or 3 times or twice a day : This way your body only produces insulin on a few occasions
  3. Try Fasting or Increasing the time gap between meals : The longer the gap between meals, the longer your body goes without insulin. This will lower the insulin resistance of your cells.
    1. TRICK : We often have a tea or coffee in the afternoon. If you choose green tea, darjeeling tea (without milk) or black coffee, and have it without sugar/sweetener you will not create glucose in the body and therefore no insulin.
  4. Avoid simple or highly processed carbohydrates : Simple carbohydrates break down into glucose the fastest. This means your body needs a higher dose of insulin. This creates insulin resistance. And the more processed the food, the faster it will convert to glucose.
  5. Eating sequence of Fruits and desserts : If you eat them after having your meal then when they go through the intestinal tract their sugar absorption is slowed down with all the other food in the system. As we see in our client's sugar graphs, when they eat a fruit on an empty stomach their glucose leveels really shoot up. The same fruit, eaten after some oats (not instant oats, we only use steel cut oats) will hardly raise the sugar level compared to before.
  6. Eat Whole grains : Like point #5, eating more whole grains will slow down the glucose spike, slow down the digestive process. It will likely keep you full for longer too, meaning you will eat less frequently.
  7. Reduce Carbohydrates : One reason Indians get so much diabetes is because we eat too much carbohydrates. Dal, Roti are both carbohydrates. If you have aloo ki subji (potatoes) along with that your meal was 100% carbohydrates. Instead replace the potatoes with a starch-free green vegetable (starch is a carbohydrate) and try to have a salad before-hand. You will cut your carbohydrates as much as 40% like this. (and subscribe to our blog to learn other tricks to cut out even more carbs while eating home-style food ;) )
  8. Reduce Saturated Fats : Saturated Fats gum up your cells. Reducing saturated fats will very quickly lower insulin resistance in your body. It is our elimination of saturated fats in the Cure My Diabetes program that people start needing 50% less insulin doses (for those on insulin), within 5 days.
  9. Exercise : Yes I do put this on the bottom of the list. It is important, but not more important than any of the above steps. Food is more important than exercise ! Exercise also helps reduce insulin resistance of your cells. Specially when you do core exercises and some leg exercises you are exercising lots muscles in your body and this will greatly reduce the insulin resistance in a large percentage of your body.


All of these steps have an amazing effect. We see this all the time through our advanced glucose monitoring chips. As people change their diet their glucose levels come down, within hours, and therefore their body needs less insulin. Less insulin means less insulin resistance.

Share

0 Comments

12/8/2019

Obesity Is Not About Calories

0 Comments

Read Now
 
The conventional weight-loss advice to eat fewer calories carries an estimated failure rate of 99.4%. For morbid obesity the failure rate is 99.9%

So what happened? Why does this fail? Are we not following the advice given ? Or is this advice wrong ?

One thing the calories-in vs calories out model assumes is that the basal metabolic rate stays constant. But a 40% decrease in calories can also be met with a 40% reduction in the basal metabolic rate. We are not like goldfish, that we cannot control how much we eat. Similarly, when we eat less, the body has many survival mechanisms; it won't keep burning the same amount of fuel. It will downregulate fuel burn, so that we may survive. Calories in - Calories out simply ignores this fundamental physiology of our inbuilt survival mechanism.

The thyroid, respiratory, circulatory, hepatic, renal, gastrointestinal, and adrenal systems are all closely regulated by hormones. Body weight and body fat are also strictly regulated by hormones, with multiple overlapping systems of body weight control. Body fat, one of the most important determinants of survival in the wild, is simply not left to the chances of what we put in our mouths.

So what controls body fat accumulation ?
Fat accumulation is not simply a problem of eating too much. It also is a problem of energy distribution. If energy is diverted to storing fat vs burning fat, we will accumulate fat. How is this controlled - hormones. 

We cannot "decide" to feel less hungry, or to increase our metabolic rate. If we eat fewer calories our body will often decrease the metabolic rate. So if calories are not the main reason for weight gain, how can you reduce weight by eating less calories? The most important factor for controlling weight is controlling the hormonal signals we receive from the food, not the total number of calories.

Obesity is a hormonal imbalance, not a caloric one. As we see in diabetes, when we prescribe insulin we usually see weight gain. The no.1 side effect of the drug prednisoneis weight gain. Anti-biotics cause weight gain (and why they are used in animal meat production). 

Thus, obesity is a hormonal imbalance, not a caloric one. Thus, type 2 diabetes can also be called a disease of insulin imbalance rather than caloric imbalance.

This blog post is part of my series looking at Dr Jason Fung. A leading nephrologist and author who is changing how we look at diabetes.

Share

0 Comments

6/8/2019

WHAT I FOUND HIDDEN INSIDE KIDS COOKIES

0 Comments

Read Now
 
We've all grown up eating cookies and Marie biscuits. Do you want to know what are bad ingredients for health how to avoid them?

Lets begin with the fact that I was SHOCKED! when I read the ingredients list. So many of the things which are bad or are banned in other countries were found on the ingredients list. When we look at childhood obesity and diabetes at younger ages I am sure these have a big part to play.

I reviewed a few popular brands : Oreo's, Nestle, xxxxxxx and these are brands that are very popular with our kids and looked very appealing. They are sold very often near schools and our kids have no idea what's in them !

Here are the ingredients which shocked me :
  1. Transfats
  2. Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils
  3. Edible Vegetable Oil
  4. Palmolein Oil
  5. Invert Sugar
  6. Refined flours

Here are brief reasons why they are considered bad :

  1. Transfats : These are supposed to be alien foods to our cells and they cause cellular inflammation. These have been banned in many countries already
  2. Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils : Another name for transfats
  3. Edible Vegetable Oil : Wow! What the heck is this? Sounds like a shade better than "Inedible Vegetable Oil" but not much more. Vegetable oils are not considered healthy and oils become part of your genetic material and cellular membranes; so you don't want bad oils in your body
  4. Palmolein oil : What is palmolein ? Doesn't sound like something I have ever seen in a grocery store. Have you ?
  5. Invert Sugar : What the h***? What kind of sugar is this? Why not normal sugar ? What is this type that I cannot even buy as a normal consumer?
  6. Refined Flours : You want to eat bad flour? Flour without life? Flour without fiber? Come and have it here in these cookies. Terrible. That too paired with all this invert sugar and transfats. Why would you feed it to anyone you love.


Guys these are MY OPINIONS. Lets keep it as that.

How can you avoid this? Buy from a local baker. Chances are they don't know where to buy Palmolein oil, edible vegetable oil or invert sugar. Generally will cut back on a lot if not all of these very poor and cheap cousins of real food.

Share

0 Comments
Details

    Author

    The Life Heal team explores the emerging science of weight loss and disease reversal with a special focus on Diabetes. We discuss nutrition, food and ways to become healthy

    Archives

    June 2020
    May 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    April 2014
    March 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013

    Categories

    All
    Cholesterol
    Cookware
    Dean Ornish
    Diabetes
    Glycemic Index
    Heart Disease
    Knowledge
    Longevity
    Recipes
    Reversing Heart Disease
    Weight Loss

    RSS Feed

How | Start | Pricing | Menu | Recipes | Questions | Disclaimer | Contact Us 
​
  • Blog