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health herbal herbs metabolism slim down slimming slimming diets slimming product weightloss One solution to this additional hunger and the weight gain caused by insulin is to drastically cut back on carbohydrate consumption. This is, obviously, what low carb dieting is all about! One stops eating the foods that drive the weight gain, by restricting carbohydrate consumption. That means cutting out refined carbohydrates in all shapes and forms, including both sugars and highly processed foods, which naturally upset the body´s ability to handle the hormone insulin. It becomes harder for insulin to do it´s job, therefore the pancreas produces MORE insulin. The scientific name for this is condition is insulin resistance. Insulin resistance causes the body to store fat due to excessive carbohydrate consumption, because the carbs are absorbed into the body and trigger insulin production, which, in turn causes body fat to be stored, and it also restricts the body´s ability to burn it´s own fat for fuel. When you consider the fact that most of the carbohydrates found in the modern American diet are simple carbohydrates (like sugar,) and that the foods we have eaten are refined, overcooked, and over-processed; it is easy to see that all this has contributed to American weight gain! Much controversy has erupted recently in the low carb diet community over carb blockers or carb cutters that contain a substance called Phaseolamin. The patented, high quality version of this is also known as Phase2™ from Pharmachem Laboratories. This compound supposedly interferes with one´s digestive process to reduce the amount of dietary nutrients absorbed from starches. Its actions are said to inhibit, or block the action of the enzyme alpha-amylase in the intestines. This process, the critics charge, DOES WORK in the test tube, but not in the body, the critics say. My reaction to that logic in both directions, pro or con, is how do you know? In other words, the naysayers of carb blocking technology say, There is no substitute for not eating carbs! ´Carb blocking´ is a joke, a hoax, or ´snake oil!´ Why? These same critics seem to admit it works in the laboratory. Promoters of Phaseolamin say that it is a wondrous discovery that allows you to eat all the carb containing foods you used to eat. Could the truth, as usual.. be somewhere in the middle of these two extreme positions? Phaseolamin is supposed to do: starch is a large molecule and the enzyme alpha-amylase present in your digestive tract breaks down starch molecules into smaller components, which can then be absorbed into one´s system and then be burned for energy. The idea of carb blockers is to reduce, or block, the action of the body´s alpha-amylase enzymes which then results in less starch breakdown.. and therefore, less carb absorption into the body. This should mean less stimulation of insulin, and therefore, less fat storage, by our body systems. In one study, it was found that use of a starch blocker, containing Phaseolamin, reduced sugar levels and insulin levels following meals in both normal subjects and in diabetic subjects. In another study, it was found that appropriate doses of a starch blocker can inhibit amylase activity in the small intestine on wheat starch (in the case of this specific study, spaghetti) by more than 96%. And a third study demonstrated that a starch blocker not only improved insulin levels, reduced starch digestion, but also reduced the release of sugar into the blood stream.
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