To go on diet you need is to keep hormone and your food if you cannot maintain a balance between the two then you will not be never get slim body that you want. You can do a blood test to the doctor but the are easiest way to determine whether you need a diet for your body is to remove your clothes and look in the mirror. If you are obese then you have to go on diet or maybe too thin, and you also want to increase the weight to be the ideal body shape. Only by maintaining our diet and hormones so we can get. The ideal body shape, may also be coupled whit exercise . If you take slimming drugs may be at risk.
To go on a diet, you should star thinking in terms of food three categories : proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. All food consist of three " macronutrients " to various degrees. The most foods containing a portion of one group, and trace amount of the other. Just to make sure we are talking the same language. I often tell people that " protein moves around, and carbohydrates grow in the ground. " Obviously, fish and chicken are both proteins, since they move around. But what about carbohydrates ? Well, pasta is a carbohydrate because it comes from wheat and that grows in the ground. What about broccoli? It grow in the ground, so it also must be a carbohydrate. And apple ? They come from apple trees, which grow in the ground. That also makes an apple a carbohytrate. The fact that fruits and vegetables are carbohydrates comes as a major revelation to most Americans. One reason people are so confused about what to eat is that they often don't fully understand what they are eating. Protein, carbohydrates, and fats all have unique hormonal. Impacts. Carbohydrates stimulate insulin, protein affects the hormone glucagon, and fats affect still another group of hormones called eicosanoid. How these three hormone systems impact your life is the science behind the diet.
Let's take insulin firts. Insulin is a "storage hormone." It tells the body to store incoming nutrients. Without adequate insulin, your cells starve to death and you die. On the other hand, too much insulin will make you fat, and accelerates the aging process. There are two ways to increase insulin and drive yourself out of the Zone. The first is to eat too many carbohydrates at any one meal. Carbohydrates are powerful stimulators of insulin secretion.
The other is to eat too many calories at any one meal. Excess calories (especially carbohydrates) increase insulin levels because they must be stored somewhere in the body, and that demands more insulin.
Furthermore, any excess calories the body cannot immediately store will be converted to fat and sent straight to your hips, stomach, or other problem areas for storage. Unfortunately, the same high levels of insulin that cause you to store fat will also block the release of any stored body fat for energy. This is why excess insulin makes you fat and keeps you fat. On the other hand, dietary protein stimulates the release of glucagon, which has the opposite hormonal effect of insulin. Glucagon is a “mobilization hormone.” It tells the body to release stored carbohydrate in the liver to replenish blood sugar levels for the brain. Without adequate levels of glucagon, you will always feel hungry and mentally fatigued because the brain is not getting enough of its primary fuel—blood sugar. Insulin and glucagon are constantly performing this balancing act. If one hormone goes up, then the other hormone goes down. This is why the balance of protein to carbohydrate at every meal and snack is critical for maintaining insulin within the Zone.
Finally, there is fat. Fat has no direct effect on insulin. Nor does it have any effect on glucagon. So why not simply take all fat out of the diet? The reason is that fat has an affect on another group of hormones call eicosanoids, and these hormones also help control insulin levels. In many ways, eicosanoids are master hormones that orchestrate the functions of a vast array of other hormonal systems in your body. In away, eicosanoids are analogous to a computer. Each of these hormones is shown below in a cartoon- like format.
The zone is about how these three hormonal systems ( insulin, glucagon, and eicosanoids ) are controlled by the food you eat. The zone is about hormonal thinking, not caloric thinking. It's a new way of looking at the food we eat, and that's what makes the zone controversial, even thought it is ultimately based on balance and moderation.
More than three million Americans have entered the Zone, and they can attest that the Zone works. Yet how could our government and all the nutritional “experts” have missed the boat? Because they are still thinking calorically, not hormonally. Before you can fully understand the revolutionary implications of the Zone and all the vast benefits of being in the Zone, you need to clear your mind of many misconceptions about nutrition.
All too frequently, the dietary advice you read about in newspapers or magazines is totally conflicting, if not downright dangerous to your health. Yet the more you hear something, the more you read about it, the more you’re likely to believe it. With all the news reports and TV commercials touting the wonders of bagels, pasta, and breakfast cereals, you have more than likely been piling on these fat-free carbohydrates at the expense of protein and fat. Nutritional mantras like “eat no fat,” “avoid protein,” and “use pasta as the main course” dance around in your head at every meal. What passes as nutritional “wisdom” can sabotage your weight and health unless you understand some Zone facts that are based on hormonal thinking. These facts upset much of this nutritional mythology that currently pervades America.
