Why do we need to eat? Food gives the body the energy & fuel it needs to nourish the cells. 

What form of energy does your body use?  Glucose.

Which foods convert easily to glucose?  Carbohydrates, because glucose is already a pure and simple carbohydrate, your body doesn't have to work hard to get energy from it.  And like every thing else the easy way always seems better than the hard way.

Did You Know?

Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S.?  (Only smoking kills more people!)

Six out of ten American adults (98 million people) are overweight or obese.

Obesity-related health problems are the second leading cause of death in America, accounting for about 3000,000 deaths a year.

When you decide to lose weight and consider some type of weight management or weight control,  you don't have to stop eating the foods you love, but you should try to eat less Bad Carbohydrates.  Food Items such as Candy, Cookies, Cake, Cheesecake, Donuts, Fudge, Pie, White Bread, Mashed Potatoes, French Fries, Soft Drinks & Beer should be portioned down and consumed less often.  If and when you incorporate this trend into your new eating habits you will lose weight faster and it will be much easier to maintain your desired weight permanently. 

The addition of proven diet supplements such as Slimbuterol , Dream Shape, and Body Slim, will accelerate fat metabolism and fat loss enabling you to reach your desired body weight more easily.

Another important fact most people don’t know is that when it comes to losing weight, Diet is more important than Exercise. Eating less (smaller portions), of fatty and high glycemic “bad” carbohydrate foods will give faster weight loss results than eating whatever and as much as you want, and then trying to exercise the extra calories away.

And when it comes to exercise, recent studies have found that it's not the type or how much or hard you exercise, but just that you exercise. This means that walking, riding a bike, shopping, house cleaning, dancing in front of the TV stretching, swinging your arms, or just using your imagination to come up with something that you can stick with will work just fine. Just remember to get up off the couch and do more than eat and watch TV!  Some type of exercise is required each and everyday for weight management and overall good health.

We can't talk about Carbohydrates with out explaining "GI" Glycemic Index, "GL" Glycemic Load, and Blood Sugar Levels.  What you eat contributes to all three and all three contribute to Obesity and Diabetes.  For the most part Obesity and Diabetes have a lot in common and contribute to many diseases, and the food you eat is at the root at the whole problem, and in the USA, It's becoming a Big Problem.  We sell weight loss diet pills on this web site and my customers tell me that Slimbuterol is very good at helping control blood sugar levels besides being a good appetite suppressant. There are many other products and information on this site that I personally feel may help others lose weight and control body fat with out major lifestyle changes, and we will continue to add new weight management and diet supplements as they become available. 

Glycemic Index or G.I.  This index is a measure of a carbohydrates quality based on how quickly individual foods raise blood glucose, (blood sugar) levels.  Recent studies indicate that the risks of disease such as type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease are strongly related to the G.I. of the overall diet.  Low G.I. foods by virtue of their slow digestion and absorption, produce gradual rises in blood sugar and insulin levels, and have proven benefits for health. 

Eliminate or at least cut back on high glycemic foods if you want to lose weight and keep it off. Processed grains, sugar and other high glycemic response carbohydrates are the biggest saboteurs of your weight management plans. The resulting insulin release causes you to store body fat and crave sugars leading to a never ending cycle of packing on the pounds!  (See Chart & List).

How does this work?  The problem starts with glucose.  Glucose is the primary fuel for all the cells in your body.  But, in whole foods, starches are molecularly bound together and your digestive system has to break down the food to turn in into glucose.  This digestive procedure takes place slowly over a period of time. 

Processed foods like white flour and sugar, need relatively no digestion time, (that's where the sugar rush comes from).  They're absorbed rapidly into your system flooding your blood and cells with glucose. Now, your body knows high blood sugar is extremely dangerous, so an emergency alarm is sounded. Your glands send insulin to the rescue to deal with the catastrophic flood of glucose, and in the process insulin turns the glucose into fat to get it out of your blood. However your body is not designed to manage glucose alarms on a daily, sometimes hourly basis, and so bad things start to happen over time.

The sugar surge depletes, replaces and uses up important vitamins, minerals and phyto-nutrients.  It quadruples adrenaline output, inhibits immune functioning, lowers metabolism, raises cholesterol and increases triglycerides.  The glucose that's produced from refined foods gets stored as fat for a later date when food is scarce, but when you keep storing body fat and the lean times never come, you get fat.

The conversion process not only causes fatty deposits on your body, but also in your liver, kidneys and other organs.  The constant bombardment of blood sugar raises you risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, premature aging, and cancer.  This just is just not good!

Glycemic Load or G. L.   This is the measurement of the Glycemic Index times the amount of carbohydrates per serving. For example to satisfy a thirst you could drink a 12oz can of cola (G.I. 90) or a 12oz glass of cranberry juice (G.I. 105).  Although the cranberry juice has a higher G.I. it has a lot less carbohydrates per ounce, (the cola is loaded with refined sugar) and so converts to glucose much slower.  Remember G.I. times amount of Carbs per serving = Glycemic Load. The reason this  is important is because many foods that have a high G. I. do not contain that many carbohydrates  per serving size and therefore do not digest quickly and cause glucose level spikes. 

  So the important stuff is that some foods convert to glucose slowly and some like (white bread, sugar, and baked potatoes convert in a flash thus causing roller coaster blood sugar "spike" conditions causing your body to deal with them in a way that sooner or later packs on the pounds. Some examples are: the starch in a baked potato converts much faster than the starch in brown rice, cheerios converts faster than oatmeal ect. This explains why diets based on eating proteins and fats will cause weight loss since they digest slowly and don't normally cause glucose spikes.  However many of the proteins contain bad fats which cause a different kind of fat problem, (think of lard in your arteries, ouch!).  A combination of low G.I. Carbohydrates, Proteins with good fats (fish, lean meats, low fat dairy products), and good Fat's like (Olive Oil, Canola Oil, and Omega 3 Fats found in Flax Oil and Fish), are your best bet for keeping the extra weight and body fat off, and for long term good health.  Thankfully there are more Good than Bad Carbohydrates and many but not all are not listed here.  The following chart contains a sample of the good, bad, and ugly carbohydrates.

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