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A lot of people are really big on low-carb diets these days.
Men are especially into the low-carb trend.
Everyone is shouting the evils of carbs.
But is high carb diet good for you?
We’ll look at it today and at how the low-carb diets are misleading.
Sure, you feel good at first.
It’s only after about a year or two that you notice your metabolism has slowed down.
Your body temperatures have fallen dramatically.
After that first couple years, you’ve realized that your belly fat is bigger and your sex drive has tanked.
And to top it off, you’re not building muscle mass the way you thought.
In other words, men who are doing a high-fat low-carb diet will hit a wall.
And that wall is when they find that they’ve done a lot of metabolic damage.
But the damage is reversible.
This new study shows the effects of switching from a high-fat low-carb diet to a high carb low is fat diet.
It’s a mouse study, but it works just as well in people — even better in fact.
The researchers fed mice a high-fat low-carb diet for 18 months.
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At the 18-month point, they discovered that the rats had developed insulin resistance.
The rats had typical symptoms of type two diabetes, and they had gained weight.
So after 18 months, the researchers switched these rats to a high carb diet.
Then the researchers observed:
Normalized glucose tolerance, reduced but not normalized body weight, increased insulin secretion and improved but not normalized insulin sensitivity.
My opinion is that if the researchers could have had much more profound results.
If they had bothered to give the mice saturated fat instead of PUFA fats, there would have been even more improvement.
That is, the mice were fed the typical diet high in vegetable oil.
And vegetable oil causes more diabetes and more obesity than anything else.
So part of the effects that the researchers saw was probably due to a lower intake of dangerous PUFAs.
They saw more normal body weight and better insulin response.
And the fact that the mice were eating less of the PUFA laden vegetable oils is probably the cause.
However, it is very clear with many studies, that a high carb low-ish fat diet is best.
This diet has the best results for overall health, libido, performance, and muscle building.
It’s also better for maintaining good hormonal and metabolic balance.
If you are doing a low-carb high-fat diet, I highly recommend that you stop.
There is ample evidence that switching to a high-carb low-ish fat diet will help you a lot.
You can eat carbs and lose weight and fix your metabolic issues.
And it’s not too late.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22158067
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