Fitness Nutrition 101: Lose Bodyfat and Gain Lean Muscle Mass with an Optimized Diet Plan

Generally speaking, the typical diet followed by most people in order to lose weight consists of many more carbohydrates than our bodies actually need in order to optimize muscle gain and bodyfat loss. While at a fundamental level it is actually the total calorie count that dictates whether we lose or gain weight, but it is the macronutrient profile that influences where this weight will come from. Many people wo have limiting success with the "conventional", high-carbohydrate diet have problems not with their overall energy intake, but where this energy is stored. These "carbohydrate-sensitive" people tend to store carbohydrate calories as bodyfat much more readily than those who will simply respond to any reduced-calorie diet. The deficiency in these people invovles the insulin receptor; when carbohydates are ingested they are broken down into glucose which enters the blood steam. It is insulin which transports this sugar into the appropriate cells, namely muscle cells (as mucle glycogen....this is good!), or it is converted to triglyceride (fat), and stored in adispose tissue (this is bad!). In people who typically have a tough time losing fat, the insulin receptors on their muscle cells have become "insensitive" to insulin from years of a high-carbohydrate intake, thus the muscle cells will only accept so much glucose and the rest is converted to and stored as bodyfat.

While this sounds hopeless, we can resolve this situation either by consuming less carbohydrates (= less insulin), or choosing carbohydrates of "low glycemic index", which will cause blood sugar to increase much more slowly, resulting in a more even, gradual increase in insulin levels. This might sound familiar, because most of today's very popular (and effective) diet plans (i.e. South Beach, the Zone, etc) are based on this principle. While this could seem overly technical it is actually a very simple equation: less carbs = less insulin = less fat! All other aspects of these diets are simply trivial details. Now you don't have to read a 200+ page book to lose bodyfat and maximize muscle mass! This is all you need to know.
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