How New Atkins works with your body
New Atkins turns your body into a fat-burning machine.
Choosing foods according to the New Atkins Nutritional Approach allows the body to burn more fat and work efficiently, making you feel less hungry, more satisfied and noticeably more energetic.
Both carbohydrates and fat provide fuel for the body. When carbohydrates are available, the body chooses them first to transform into energy, with excess carbohydrates stored as fat. When carbohydrates are selectively restricted, the body burns fat for fuel instead – including stored body fat – allowing you to lose or maintain weight. This is why controlling carbohydrates is core to the New Atkins program.
New Atkins turns your body into a fat-burning machine.
Choosing foods according to the New Atkins Nutritional Approach allows the body to burn more fat and work efficiently, making you feel less hungry, more satisfied and noticeably more energetic.
Both carbohydrates and fat provide fuel for the body. When carbohydrates are available, the body chooses them first to transform into energy, with excess carbohydrates stored as fat. When carbohydrates are selectively restricted, the body burns fat for fuel instead – including stored body fat – allowing you to lose or maintain weight. This is why controlling carbohydrates is core to the New Atkins program.
The New Atkins Nutritional Approach promotes the healthy consumption of nutrient-rich foods including lean protein, natural fats, vegetables, low sugar fruits, whole grains and legumes – all high in vitamins and minerals, as well as ‘good’ carbohydrates which have minimal impact on blood sugar. At the same time, foods high in ‘empty’ or processed carbohydrates from white flour, sugar and other refined foods are eliminated – allowing the body to revert to burning fat as its primary fuel source.
Get an exit pass off the blood sugar roller coaster.
Metabolism is the process that converts food into either energy or your body’s building blocks. Eating the right foods can improve your body’s metabolism, particularly how it handles fat.
When you digest foods, they convert to glucose (sugar), which your bloodstream transports throughout your body. A rise in blood glucose level triggers the release of the hormone insulin, which moderates your glucose level.So intake is largely responsible for blood sugar fluctuations. Food need not taste sweet—think mashed potatoes and white bread—to convert rapidly to glucose.
Because your body can store no more than half a day’s energy supply of glucose—unlike our ability to store almost limitless amounts of fat—it makes sense that we burn as much carbohydrate as we can as soon as it’s digested and absorbed. After each-heavy meal or snack, your body stops burning off fat as your insulin level escalates to deal with the rising tide of blood sugar. Fat calories are always pushed to the back of the line—where more than likely they’re stored. That’s why insulin is called the “fat hormone.” As long as you keep making glucose into fat, you’re doomed to being heavy.
Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be that way. That’s why cutting your intake and eating mostly whole food carbohydrates is the core premise of the New Atkins Diet.
By changing the
balance of, fats and protein in your diet, you boost your energy level and keep
it on an even keel.
When you eat foods composed primarily of protein, fat and fibre, your body
produces far less insulin. And when the you do eat are in the form of high-fibre
whole foods, which convert to glucose relatively slowly, your blood sugar level
holds steady, along with your energy level. You don’t crave a fast-fix energy
booster in the form of sugary, starchy food. And you’re less hungry at meals.
This perfectly
normal process of burning primarily fat for energy has a welcome side effect:
weight loss.
There’s nothing strange or risky about a primarily fat metabolism. In fact, fat
is your body’s back-up energy source. The ability to carry a “bum bag” or
“fanny pack” of energy in the form of fat actually helped our distant ancestors
survive in times of famine and when hunters returned home empty handed.
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Your ally, the New Atkins Edge
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