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How to Cheat
on a Low Carb Diet
by Tanya
Zilberter, PhD
How to cheat
on a low carb diet and still be losing weight
For Part 1 click
here
How does it work?
The green tea extract may play a role in the
control of body composition via activation of thermogenesis, fat
oxidation, or both. First of all, green tea works by increasing energy
expenditure. Green tea has thermogenic properties and promotes fat
burning beyond that explained by its caffeine content per se.
Researchers at the University of Fribourg,
Fribourg, Switzerland,reported that green tea extract stimulated brown
adipose tissue thermogenesis to an extent which is much greater than
can be attributed to its caffeine content, and that its thermogenic
properties could reside primarily in an interaction between its high
content in catechin-polyphenols and caffeine with an increase in
noradrenaline release.
Green tea also works by normalising lipid
metabolism. Green tea extract has preventive effects on blood
cholesterol suggesting that green tea has anti-atherosclerotic
activity.
Should it be necessarily green tea?
Perhaps, if we are talking about the fat-burning
effects. Maybe not, as it comes to the saliva enzymes inhibition. Tea
decoctions prepared from
a number of black and green teas inhibited amylase in human saliva.
Black
teas gave higher levels of inhibition than green teas, and removal of
tea
tannins with gelatin led to the loss of inhibitory activity from all
decoctions.
Salivary amylase starts the digestion of food
starches to low molecular weight fermentable carbohydrates. In a
clinical experiment conducted by the Center for Research on the
Biological Effects of Foods, Forsyth, Boston, subjects consumed salted
crackers and rinsed subsequently for 30 s with black
or green tea decoctions, or water. The carbohydrate Maltose
concentration was reduced by up to about 70% after rinsing with the
teas. Black tea decoction was significantly more effective than green
tea.
What's on shelves
The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris,
contains an alpha-amylase inhibitor, which is one of a plant's
insect defence proteins found in a number ofbean species. With a
reduced amount of amylase available to break down andassimilate
(digest) the carbohydrates, it can have a better chance of
travelingthrough the body without being assimilated, or made available
as energy,and eventually excreted rather than being used as energy or
stored as fat.
CBlock
If you hate cutting way down on your carbs, try
CBlock.
The active ingredient is the trademarked
"Trimplex" (Phaseous vulgaris) which has been shown to effectively
partially prevent the body from absorbing starches. CBlock is safe.
There have been no known reported side effects with this product.
Ingredients:
• White kidney bean extract 700 mg
• Chromium (as chromium dinicotinate glycinate)
200 mcg
• Vanadium 100 mcg Carb Block
Carb
Block will help prevent up to 38 grams of sugars and carbs from
being absorbed.
Carb Block also provides a second, equally
important benefit. Gymnemalin, an extract of the plant Gymnema
sylvestre, is a hypoglycemic agent. When
combined with the patented chromium formula, alpha lipoic acid and
vanadium,
Gymnemalin will improves insulin function and sensitivity thus
preventing
your body from sharp increases in insulin levels following a
carbohydrate-rich
meal
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