The Surprising Truth About Calories

It seems that mainstream medicine has just discovered you can get fat without eating more. And you don’t have to eat less to lose weight.1 I was as surprised by this revelation as they were – although not quite in the same way. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a very prestigious medical publication, has admitted that weight gain is really about the kind of calories you eat, and how the body’s insulin responds. I’m sure this news came as a huge shock to the medical establishment. But if you’re a regular reader of mine, or a patient at my wellness clinic, the truth about calories and insulin is old news. What surprised me was that the JAMA would essentially admit that 100 or so years of mainstream advice on obesity and weight-gain has been completely wrong. I’ve been telling my patients for years that we should be looking at our insulin response to food and not the amount of calories we consume. Now, it seems, JAMA and the rest of the mainstream medical establishment are beginning to come around. The JAMA article said:  “States of increased insulin action … predictably cause weight gain, whereas decreased insulin action results in weight loss.” In other words, when you eat foods that cause a flood of insulin, you gain weight. When you eat foods that don’t produce an insulin response, you lose weight. I thought they were finally getting it… until a few sentences later. That’s when the aut...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Nutrition Weight Loss blood sugar fat loss Source Type: news