The Predictable Truth About Why We Get Fat!
It’s carbs!
No. It’s fat!
No. It’s sugar!
No. It’s a sedentary lifestyle.
We have blamed the above mentioned for the obesity epidemic. And entire diets are created and followed to identify and solve the cause of obesity.
Unfortunately, the population is as obese as ever, and none of the diets solve that.
Wait, that’s not true. All diets solve it in the short term, but very few people follow these diets in the long term.
Why Carbs Don’t Make Us Fat
Several authors and approaches have been devised around the insulin theory of weight gain (the most notable ones being Atkins, Bernstein, and Poon). The theory goes like this: when we eat lots of carbs (pasta, potatoes, bread, rice, etc.), insulin spikes. When insulin rises, it traps fat inside the fat cells, so even if you eat low calories, but the carbs make up a large proportion of those calories, you’ll stay fat.
Excellent theory. Not so good in practice.
Why?
Because if carbs and insulin causes fat gain, then lowering insulin should cause fat loss. So that’s what researchers investigated in this study. They recruited 35 overweight participants who had…
