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norm for our ancestors, those of us who came after seem to have inherited what biochemist C. Nicholas Hales and epidemiologist David J.P. Barker christened “thrifty genes,” good at conserving fat. We are all descended from survivors, and survivors were the chubby ones. “At

proof. In the 1950s, Kekwick and Pawan at the University of London in England published a landmark study. They put patients on a diet that was low in calories (1,000 calories) but high in fat. In fact, fat supplied 90 percent of the total calories. What happened? Those patients lost significant amounts of weight. When the same patients were put on

Eat in the 100-150 gram Maintenance Zone and you won’t gain fat (unless you have an extremely severe overeating problem…but even then it will be hard!). Eat in the 50-100 gram Sweet Spot and you will lose body fat, no matter who you are and how hard it’s been to drop weight in the past. Really, it’s all about the Carbohydrate Curve!

Reducing Calories In works only if Calories Out remains stable. What we find instead is that a sudden reduction of Calories In causes a similar reduction in Calories Out, and no weight is lost as the body balances its energy budget. Some historic experiments in calorie reduction have shown exactly this.

Both low-calorie and no-calorie sweeteners have been associated with weight gain.

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The answer is not to try to eat less; it is to decrease our insulin levels by flattening our glucose curves – and this often actually means eating more food, as you’ll see a bit later.