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steady supply of energy and won’t get the cravings or lethargy that comes

with sudden spikes and troughs. It also means you can increase your insu-

lin sensitivity and improve your body’s ability to use energy in an efficient

manner. At the same time, simply by avoiding a lot of carbohydrates like

bread, potato, crisps, chips, cake, Coca-Cola etc., you will be able to re-

duce your intake of ‘empty calories’ that increase your calories without of-

fering any useful nutrition.

The ‘slow carb’ diet takes a slightly different approach to this by simply ban-

ning ‘simple carbs’ and focussing instead on complex, low GI carbohy-
drates such as vegetables and whole grains.

There are problems here though too. For one, the slow carb diet does not

guarantee a nutritious meal and nor does it guarantee you’ll lose weight.

Some people will follow the slow carb diet thinking it’s okay to eat as much

fat as they like and they’ll end up drastically increasing their calories as a

result!

Moreover, carbohydrates serve a useful role in the diet just like every other

food group does. Low carb diets have been shown to cause low energy

and low testosterone and if you’re going to be completely strict then avoid-

ing carbs would mean avoiding fruit and vegetables too!

The Paleo Diet

The problem with eating low-fat foods is that they make it harder to absorb

the nutrients and don’t keep us as full.

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