It's the weight loss mantra that doctors have been touting for decades: "eat less, move more, and those extra pounds will disappear." That's the advice that 42-year-old Jennifer Hayne says she tried to follow, but nothing ever clicked or worked.How did the weight gain affect your physical state? I was exhausted.
Depressed A brand new report by a group of obesity doctors and scientists finds that telling people to eat less could actually be doing more harm than good and that restricting calories not only causes people to be more hungry but also slows down their metabolism. The body also fights back against calorie restriction. Harvard paediatrician and endocrinologist Dr. David Ludwig is the report's lead author. He and his colleagues are suggesting a whole new approach called the
The idea behind the carbohydrate insulin model is simple: if overeating isn't fueling obesity, stop counting calories and just cut carbohydrates to control your insulin levels. With too much insulin, fat cells get programmed to hoard calories so that there aren't too many calories in the bloodstream. There are too few, and that's why we get hungry.
Jennifer discovered this firsthand when she enrolled in a low-carb study at Ohio State University in 2019 led by researcher Jeff Volig, who has been studying low carb diets for 25 years. He put Jennifer on a diet that contained 37 grammes of carbs per day, as well as high protein and healthy fats like avocados and nuts, and she lost 20 pounds in just six weeks.
And this is the kind of fat you want to lose. Three years later, how much weight have you lost in total? Approximately 88 pounds.Jennifer says the diet wasn't easy at first. She was forced to cut out her favourite foods like pasta and potatoes, but seeing results was all the motivation she needed.
way easier because you can do it all as a family and she's not alone. Volex studies have found that people on low carb diets can lose more than 10 percent of their body weight and keep it off. What actually happens to the body when you're on a low carb diet? When you limit carbohydrates, the body gets really good at burning its own body fat because it doesn't have a lot of sugar to burn for fuel.
Jennifer says it has been a game changer. I feel great; it's easier for me to get up; it's easy for me to go to sleep; I feel a lot more comfortable with myself. [Music] So one of the most interesting things about this new approach is that it also eliminates some of the stigma surrounding obesity, which is typically treated as a behavioural problem, but doctors often assume that people are overweight because they simply eat too much.
Much but instead it actually takes the blame away from the patient and looks at obesity as a biological problem really focusing on regulating the hormone insulin and that they say is what it's all about but besides just you know dropping the weight i mean is there some are there other benefits here tonnes of other benefits In fact, that researcher Jeff Bullock that we just spoke to has been studying low-carb diets for 25 years. What's fascinating is that now
They're doing new studies to see what else it's affecting; they're looking at different types of cancer and even just your mental health, and the studies so far are really promising, but low carb has been around for a long time. I guess you never really knew that the science kind of backed it up exactly at the Atkins diet, and i did keto for a while; i remember we were on that face, but this is low carb not exactly; it's actually interesting you pointed out
She didn't exercise at all; she didn't exercise at all; she said she didn't lift a finger; she didn't do anything differently, and keto is a more extreme type of low carb, but as Savannah said, it's low carb, but you can have a few things here and there, but I will say sustainable exercise and not extreme exercise like we're doing today.
Walking challenges, combined with a low carb diet, have helped me lose about 45 pounds in the last few months, but again, only about 100 grammes of carbs a day, and then you walk and I walk and watch it. You don't just walk. I've seen your workout. You do weights. You do, like, real exercise.
I mean, I'm the oldest person here, and I'm just trying to hang on, whereas you're the most energetic guy, and you've already got more Hey, thanks for watching our YouTube channel. Find your favourite recipes celebrity interviews with uplifting stories Shop our favourite deals and so much more.
