Lo Carb Diets

The lo carb diet is one of the most successful and popular food plans for losing weight.

The carbohydrates we eat in everyday food provide us with much of our energy; so a lo-carb or low carbohydrate diet helps create weight loss situation by starving your body of the easy energy it normally gets from those carbs. Therefore, your body is forced to burn body fat to provide you with the energy you need to move around.

In fact, all of us have to burn up some energy just to breathe and stay alive. When we run out of energy and fuel completely we die. Simply, it's called starvation.

Don't worry. You won't die from following a sensible lo carb diet for some weeks. With no food at all and just water to drink, a healthy adult can stay alive for about 30 days. That's with no food intake at all, remember.

A low-carbohydrate diet plan will provide you with protein, fruit and vegetables so your body gets all the nutrients it needs. It just burns up some of your body fat to make up the fuel to give you energy to move around and breathe.

Even digesting a meal uses up some of your body’s energy. But that’s no excuse to eat too much, or to binge on the wrong types of foods like sugary foods. These are even more damaging to your system than fatty foods, because they act like a narcotic and keep you craving for more.

That’s why manufacturers add sugar to most of the foods they process for public consumption.

Did you know that the 12-step group, FAA (that’s Food Addicts Anonymous), publishes a list for its members listing 500 names of sugar? These are fancy names the big food factories use in their ingredients listings (printed on the food container) which disguise the fact they are adding sugar to your food. The manufacturers use cute misleading names like fructose and malt instead.

We really do have to read the labels on the stuff we buy in supermarkets and food stores! And if in doubt, we can always look it up on the internet.

Now let's check out the Pritikin diet. (This food plan is actually a high-carb diet.)