Many people have asked me
what foods they should eat
in order to cut down on the
sugar cravings. And in the
past I've always had to say
"I don't know."
Now, maybe I can actually
offer something more hopeful.
Kicking a sugar habit is no
easy chore, especially since
we're surrounded by the stuff.
Almost every packaged food
or convenience product is
made from sugar, (or white
flour, which is about the
same thing).
We struggle to overcome the
initial reluctance to change,
then we live through the two
weeks of mild withdrawal symptoms,
and then we have to worry
about relapse when we let
down our guard on a stressful
day.
Sometimes it just doesn't
seem fair.
Dr. Ron Rosedale may have
the answer for us. He says
that our sugar cravings are
associated with a leptin insensitivity.
Leptin is that hormone that
researchers were very excited
about a few years ago. They
discovered that giving a small
dose of this natural hormone
to laboratory mice caused
them to eat less, and they
lost weight.
Researchers hoped that they
could use leptin as the magic
pill that would help obese
patients get thin again, like
those mice. But when they
started looking at humans,
they found that overweight
people often have more leptin
than thin people - and obese
people almost always have
too much.
Eating too much highly concentrated
carbohydrates over a long
period of time can cause an
insulin insensitivity that
can lead to diabetes and other
health conditions. According
to Dr. Rosedale, it can also
lead to leptin insensitivity,
so the message that leptin
is sending out ("stop eating")
is not being heard by the
overweight dieter. In fact,
when we have a liptin insensitivity,
we tend to crave even more
sugar, even though our bodies
are desperately trying to
get rid of, (or store as fat),
the excess sugar we've just
eaten a few minutes ago. And
we go on craving sugar, even
years after we've given it
up - like the cravings that
many ex-smokers get when they're
around people smoking.
To combat leptin insensitivity,
Dr. Rosedale created a diet
that is a lot like a cross
between the Mediterranean
diet and the Okinawa diet.
Both those diets have been
proven to help people avoid
the big killers - cancer and
heart disease - and they help
people live longer, more productive
lives. Dr. Rosedale believes
that these diets keep the
leptin levels low, and this
keeps people on these diets
from aging as quickly.
He claims that just a few
weeks on his diet (which is
really quite easy to follow)
will put your leptin levels
back where they belong, making
it easy to lose weight, and
putting an end to the sugar
cravings. It sounds like a
perfect solution - go on the
Rosedale diet when you've
made the commitment to give
up sugar - your commitment
makes it easier to stay on
the diet for two weeks, and
the diet makes it easier to
give up sugar - for good.
The Rosedale diet includes
lots of fish, for the Omega
3 fat, and is much higher
in fat than most of us are
used to. I've never been that
excited about fish, but I'm
tired of having to fight sugar
cravings, even three years
after going cold turkey. This
is the first diet I've seen
that is specifically designed
to change our body's reaction
to sugar and other refined
carbs, reducing the cravings,
and helping us keep the weight
off without the constant struggle.
From now on, I'm going to
recommend The Rosedale Diet
to my readers.
About the Author
Jonni Good is the author of
a self-help book for sugar
addiction, and the owner of
Stress-Free-Weight-Loss.com,
which is filled with articles
on natural weight loss.
http://www.stress-free-weight-loss.com
Jonni's blogger can be found
at http://www.howtothinkthin.com/blogger.htm
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