Forget salads – bacon, cheese and cream are the key to weight loss.
Eating fat – rather than carbohydrates – is the key to slimming down, according to Grant Petersen, author of Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog.
For years, Mr Petersen tried to lose weight in the conventional way – through eating a low fat diet and exercising for up to three hours a day.
While he says he wasn’t fat by American standards, he wasn’t losing weight and became frustrated.
After researching different diets, he came to believe that rather than weight loss being a simple matter of calories eaten versus energy expelled, it concerns the hormone insulin.
When a person eats carbohydrates, they are broken down into glucose in the blood.
The pancreas secretes insulin, which clears away glucose from the blood into cells, so it can be used as energy.
But insulin causes calories to be stored as body fat, and prevents people using their own body fat as fuel, Mr Petersen argues.
Cutting out carbohydrates and eating all calories from fat lowers insulin levels, and therefore weight gain.
Eating no more than 50g of carbohydrates a day – the equivalent of a slice of bread and a banana puts the body into a state known as ‘ketosis’, in which it burns its own fat for energy, he says.
It also prevents hunger, which mostly comes from craving sugar, he maintains.
Here, Mr Peterson explains why people should stop eating fruit, add oil to their morning coffee and exercise so intensely they are gasping for air… (continue reading)