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If you eat brown, whole-wheat, whole-grain bread then you’ll provide your

body with a lower GI ‘complex carb’ and you’ll be supplied with a slower

and steadier supply of energy throughout the day. You’ll be less likely to

snack and you won’t damage your insulin resistance. What’s more is that

this food will provide you with more nutrition from the seeds and the germ

of the wheat.

The Fall and Rise of Saturated Fat

But you know what else has a low glycemic index? Saturated fat.

The same saturated fat that the NHS still advises you avoid can actually

help you to lose weight. Although fat contains more calories than bread for

instance, it sits in the stomach longer and releases that energy more

slowly. This therefore means you can fill yourself up and stay fuller on a

smaller number of calories overall. A little meat or a couple of eggs is much

better than a lot of crisps or a lot of chocolate.

What’s also important to recognize is that your body won’t react to each

food group in isolation. If you have a plate of carbs, fats and proteins then

they can combine to be digested slower together overall. That means that

‘diet food’ that removes fat from what you eat is actually a very bad idea.

And this is especially important when you consider that fat has other bene-

fits for the health. Fat is what the body uses to create testosterone (which
significantly increases your metabolism and anabolism by the way) and it is

what a large proportion of the brain is made from.

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