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That’s why I am going to show you a multitude of scientific articles, so you can form your own opinion.
If you eat healthily and exercise regularly the science strongly suggests that these low carb recipes will help your excess weight fall off..
My name is Sheena MacLennan. This journey started a year ago when I was looking for a way to get rid of post pregnancy pounds. I scoured the internet looking for sweet, low carb recipes but I wasn’t sure what to make of all the various sugar replacements.
Agave syrup is a refined product that is composed of up to 90% fructose. This is very hard for the body to process. In fact fructose is more readily converted to fat and easier to store as excess pounds on your body compared to other nutrients. Take a look at a recent study:
32 overweight men and women were instructed to drink a sweetened drink three times a day. In one group the drinks were sweetened with glucose and in the other group they were sweetened with fructose.
Ten weeks later both groups had gained three pounds, but not in the same place. The fructose group gained a disproportionate amount of abdominal fat – the most dangerous type of fat!
In the first group the yoghurt was sweetened with sugar. In the second group it was sweetened with saccharin.
The researchers noticed that over two weeks the rats given saccharin yoghurt ate more than the other rats. Apparently their appetite had been stimulated.
AND – the rats fed with saccharin showed a decrease in core temperature which means their metabolism had SLOWED DOWN.
Apparently low calorie sweeteners may confuse the body by interfering with the natural ability of the body to use sweet taste to estimate caloric content.
The body has learnt that a sweet taste means a lot of calories, but when you eat foods sweetened with artificial sweeteners the body learns it can no longer use its sense of taste to gauge calories.
The body may be fooled into thinking a product sweetened with sugar has no calories and… Read more…
