Calorie Restriction Diet - Made Easy
A calorie restriction diet
can slow aging and prevent chronic disease by keeping a normal glucose range. Including foods that increase serotonin and using diabetic testing supplies to monitor blood sugar can make this work for you.
The CR Way To Happy Dieting
A new program promises to make calorie restriction dieting easy and painless! This program works with your biochemistry rather than against it. Just like Judo where you use an opponents force to help you overcome him.
This method uses foods that increase serotonin and Tryptophan to help you control hunger and stick with the calorie restriction diet. Special recipes to raise these two neurotransmitters are included.
I have previously stated that no one diet is a perfect way of eating, but you can draw elements of a number of dietary systems, that you can combine to create a way of eating that will work for you and allow you to maintain normal glucose range.
The Role of Serotonin
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that affects your appetite. It makes you feel happy and satisfied. It is the trigger behind emotional eating. Tryptophan is a “precursor” (ingredient with which the body makes another substance) and thus Tryptophan levels have to be adequate to allow the body to make enough serotonin.
Not enough serotonin and you will have the compulsion to eat.
When serotonin levels are high you will be able to resist foods that are not on the diet.
So foods that increase serotonin are essential to your success with a restricted calorie diet.
The CR Way leverages the effects of serotonin to shut down your craving for foods, so that the diet does not become an issue of willpower, but rather one of leveraging your biochemistry to achieve the results you are after.
Using serotonin in this way, you literally “trick” your brain into thinking you are satisfied eating the foods on the diet and not needing to indulge in eating foods that are restricted.
The system also specifies foods to minimize something called neuropeptide y which has the opposite reaction to foods that increase serotonin. It makes you want to eat.
Importance of Maintaining Normal Glucose Range
Note that the calorie restriction diet will require the use of diabetic testing supplies to help you track your blood sugar levels.
We know that elevated glucose levels (over 80) even in non-diabetics result in damage to both your cardiovascular and cerebral vascular system. Think heart disease and Alzhemiers disease.
Post prandial (that is after meals) elevations of blood sugar over 140 result in significantly increased risk of damage to your vascular system, and so keeping blood sugar levels down is one of the most important things you can do for your health!
Blood sugar in the normal glucose range (below 80) results in a shift in metabolism where your body makes energy instead of storing it. Insulin production stops and glucagon is secreted instead.
This results in fat burning rather than fat storage, and is exactly the effect you are looking for. You want to restrict fat storage and promote fat burning to start drawing down on your stored bodyfat.
That is exactly that what a diet should do and this is what makes the calorie restriction diet different from others.
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