Bantadiet. com Explains How the Fat Burning Index of Foods and Meals Works For Weight Loss
In a diet with fixed calorie amount, the higher fat content, the higher fat burning (lipolysis) rate, concluded Dr. E. Coyle and coauthors in an article published by American Journal of Physiology (Endocrinology & Metabolism) in 2001. BantaDiet. com used this fact to develop food lists and recipes with high fat burning ratio to insure weight loss without controlling portions and counting calorie, carbohydrates, or fats.
(PRWEB) October 16, 2004
"As our diet popularity increases, we receive lots of questions concerning the principles it is based upon. Let me give a couple of very simple definitions to clarify the matter," says Tanya Zilberter, PhD. "There's nothing mysterious at all.
The fat burning rate is the number of milligrams of fat burnt by 1 kg of body fat in 1 minute. Our Fat Burning Index is just a term; we use it for quantitative description of foods' and meals' potentials to burn or to store fat."
The point can be best explained in terms of ketosis, which any low carb dieter is familiar with. Ketosis is a biochemical condition that occurs when the body produces ketones (ketone bodies) at a higher rate than glucose's release into the blood.
Ketone bodies provide energy for the body's needs when there is a total food restriction, carbohydrate restriction, and/or long enough physical effort.
In the beginning of ketosis, ketones provide up to 75% of total energy requirement, including energy required by the brain. Most dieticians say that carbohydrate is the only fuel for the nerve cells but it is not true. It's a preferred fuel, yes, but not the only one. If there are little or no carbohydrates, all tissues of the body including brain tissue can adapt to using alternative fuel.
As the body undergoes the process of adaptation to ketosis, the amount of carbohydrates required reduces. This explains why brain fog and muscle weakness can occur in the beginning of ketosis but becomes very rare after a week or two. In fact, it's true that a diet is considered low carb if it contains less than 100 carb grams a day, but it's only true until the adaptation to ketosis develops. After it is completed, the carb requirement is around 40 grams. None of non-clinical low carb diets takes this fact into account.
After 1-2 weeks, as the process of adaptation to ketosis develops and the tissues no longer rely on carbohydrates for fuel, they send less signals requesting the beta-cells in the pancreas to release insulin -- resulting in decrease of insulin concentration in the blood.
Low insulin level frees its antagonistic fat burning hormones from suppression resulting in increased levels of glucagon, growth hormone, catecholamines, and glucocorticoid.
Glucagon is the most important insulin antagonist; it's up to glucagon to control fatty acids' release from fat stores to be burnt for fuel. So, as glucagon release increases, insulin goes down. It is thought that to initiate ketosis, carbohydrate intake should be reduced to less than 30g/day.
"There's a most important condition grossly overlooked by the authors of low carb diets," warns Dr. Zilberter. " Any food is either ketogenic or glucogenic depending on it's influence on the competition between glucagon and insulin. To make ketosis possible, a meal should contain at least 1.5 g of fat per every 1 g of protein plus carbohydrate combined.
Only that or higher of a ratio makes food ketogenic enough to allow eating without portion and calorie control. Foods with ketogenic indexes below 1 promote insulin release and are essentially anti-ketogenic. Foods with indexes between 1 and 1.5, though not anti-ketogenic, require calorie control since their ketogenic properties are not strong enough to significantly suppress the carbohydrate metabolic pathway and mobilize body fat for fuel thus causing healthy hunger decrease."
BantaDiet. com offers food lists, meal plans and recipes selected for their high Fat Burning Index.
"I feel I was successful with your diet. I lost 25 lbs and 2-3 inches around the waist. I achieved this in about three months and was able to maintain this weight most of the year until the holidays when I gained back about 8 lbs. I am back on it now and back to 195. I had no trouble maintaining 190 after I reached that weight. I plan to get back to 190 again which seems to be okay for me. I am 5'10"". Age 79. Am not getting the exercise I need but hope to get back on that regimen again soon also. I was at 225 when I started the diet," wrote Lloyd, a dieter from UK, in response to BantaDiet. com yearly follow-up.
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