Why We Get Fat
This condition can occur routinely when you eat a high-carb diet (even if it’s a low-fat diet), because excessive insulin production drives the conversion of ingested carbohydrate into fat (triglycerides). Obviously, the condition can also occur when you eat a moderate-carb, high-fat diet, because insulin will see to it that both excess carbs and f
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Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments
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An effective weight-reduction plan targets the cause of high insulin levels
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All well and good. The problem is that insulin is essentially a storage hormone, evolved to put aside excess carbohydrate calories in the form of fat in case of future famine. So the insulin that's stimulated by excess carbohydrates aggressively promotes the accumulation of body fat.