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Low-Carb For Really Busy People Cookbook
The low carb cookbook with over 150 tasty, quick and easy recipes!
Bonus: shopping list and nutrition plan to copy
Brady Jones
Contents
Introduction
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ur daily food is far more important than most people imagine. It brings you energy. It brings your body the substances it needs for growth in children, for regeneration and healing, and for health. It means that the food determines everything. It can make you feel powerful or tired. It can make your wounds heal quickly or slowly. Eating can improve your health or it can make you sick.
Food is so important and in order for it to give you energy, regenerate your body and strengthen your health, it has to be the right food. So that you enjoy eating the right food, it has to be varied and bring you lots of ideas.
In the opinion of many people, the right food is low carb. It gives you the energy you need, it does not make you fat, it gives your body the substances it needs to regenerate and heal and it strengthens your health.
Low carb is tasty. You want to eat it, and there are many recipes that follow this diet. You can cook, vary and experiment for yourself and develop and realize your own ideas with it.
You can find a number of selected recipes here. So you eat yourself slim, have a tasty diet and can really let off steam in the kitchen. You can enjoy, find your own variations, thus, you can strength your body and your health.
What is low carb?
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ow carb is a very simple diet in itself. You reduce the amount of carbohydrates in the dishes and replace them with protein and fat. It seems a little strange at first, but behind it lies an interesting finding from food science.
Carbohydrates can be divided into single, double and multiple sugars. It includes two important pieces of information. The first is that carbohydrates are just like sugar in action. The second is that there are simpler and more complicated variants of it.
Our body has to process or digest the food we eat. The energy contained which is released and the important nutrients are removed and transferred into the blood. In order for all of this to happen, the body has to break down the food or its molecules. It is a very, very important fact.
Let's compare carbohydrates with fat and proteins. All three of them contain energy and they are made up of molecules. However, the molecules of fat and protein are significantly longer and more complex. It means that they also contain more energy than the carbohydrates.
Let's compare both. On the other hand, we have the carbohydrates. They consist of short molecules and contain a lot of energy. In addition, they are sugar or act like sugar. Moreover, we have fat and protein. These have molecules with long chains. They are high in energy and they do not act like sugar.
What makes the difference between the two? This results from the long or short molecules and the sugar-like effect.
The carbohydrates can be processed very quickly due to their short molecules. Your body will be done with them quickly and hungry again. He gets a lot of energy and hardly uses it to digest food. At the same time, it contains little or no substances for regeneration. The short molecular chains just do not give anything.
Additionally,they are the long-chain fats and proteins. Here digestion has to work a long time to get the energy and the substances. This will keep you full for a long time and your metabolism itself consumes a lot of energy. You are practically eating yourself lean. Instead of artificially increasing your energy consumption with exercise, you increase it through your digestion.
The long-chain molecules also allow them to be restructured after being broken down into the substances that our body needs for regeneration. So you get energy and healing.
With that alone, the proteins and the fat beat the carbohydrates by far. But there is also the effect as sugar. The carbohydrates cause your blood sugar level to skyrocket. However, too much sugar in the blood is harmful to the cells. So your pancreas is now releasing insulin so that the sugar in the blood can be used up. This has two negative consequences.
The first negative consequence is that the insulin lowers the blood sugar level too much. Itwill make you crave sweets. It means you have just eaten and will soon be hungry again. This will put you in too many calories and make you fat.
The second episode is a long-term episode. The insulin allows the cells to absorb and use the sugar from the blood. But when it is released, the cells slowly become resistant. Then even more insulin has to be produced in the pancreas. In contrast, the cells become resistant again and the pancreas has to work even more. It results in a cycle, at the end of which the pancreas gives up overwhelmed the mind. The result is diabetes.
In additional, low carb keeps your blood sugar level constant. So there is neither cravings nor resistance to insulin. Moreover, you burn more calories through your metabolism and your body gets more important nutrients with low carb.
The diet with low carb
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ou can do low carb from easy to extreme. The difference is how many carbohydrates you include in your diet. It is important to understand that the carbohydrates cannot go away completely and the fewer of them there are, the shorter you can use the diet.
Even low carb is not about no carb. This is simply because your brain needs the glucose that you take in with the carbohydrates. Therefore, you cannot banish them entirely.
A normal low-carb diet, as shown here with the recipes, can be sustained indefinitely. Other forms of nutrition, such as the Keto diet, reduce carbohydrates to the extreme. But this can only be maintained for a short time, otherwise your brain will be undersupplied.
If you absolutely want to lose weight quickly, you can eat according to the keto principle for two to six weeks. Then you can avoid the yo-yo effect by switching to the classic low carb diet. But you don't need to start with the extreme, because the low carb diet will bring you a steady, slower and healthier weight loss.
Now you may have concerns about fat and cholesterol. Cholesterol is the substance that is made to move fat through the blood. This is done by combining fat with protein. The more protein, the better. Then the LDL and HDL differ. LDL contains fewer proteins and is harmful because it clogs the arteries. HDL, on the other hand, is high in protein and can even clean the arteries.
For you, low carb means that you consume a lot of protein. If you eat carbohydrates, then you have pure energy. This is converted into fat by your body, more precisely by your liver. However, this creates LDL, which is harmful because you are not consuming any proteins. If, on the other hand, you also eat a lot of protein thanks to low carb, then you produce HDL from it and the fat that has also been absorbed, which cleans your arteries.
Theory and approaches
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e advocates of low carb will quickly explain to you that carbohydrates are generally not good for you. These have a negative impact on health in general and cause obesity and the associated complications. The idea is that humans are born to feed on the principle of the hunter-gatherer. In such a diet, carbohydrates are only very much reduced. Instead, the body feeds on fat and protein. Therefore, the low carb diet is also known as the Stone Age diet. There are, however, some differences from such a diet that are beyond the scope of this book.
Carbohydrate metabolism
Putting the theories of good and bad food aside, it has been proven that the body processes carbohydrates quickly. He usually receives this as a single or double sugar, plus the multiple sugar.