If you want to lose weight, there is one thing you cannot ignore...better blood sugar levels. If not, your weight loss program is bound to fail. When you lose fat to lose weight, you are likely to cure your diabetes or prediabetes. Many obese people have what is called insulin resistance meaning that the body cannot utilize the insulin the pancreas is pouring out. As such glucose cannot enter the cell to be oxidized as energy. This is where fat cells (adipocytes) take over storing the fat instead of burning them. This shows that insulin resistance is a cause or contributory factor to chronic systemic weight gain.
By the way another name for insulin resistance is borderline or pre-diabetes (the more common name). If left unchecked or with prescription medication, insulin resistance can progress to full-blown type II diabetes.
Healthy weight and balanced blood glucose levels go hand in hand--you really can't have one without the other. In fact, it is estimated that when you have blood sugar elevation due to insulin resistance, you have a 90% chance of being overweight. You need to understand the real link between weight gain and rising blood glucose levels.
It's called insulin resistance. This happens when your body becomes less sensitive to its own insulin, and this makes it harder for insulin to carry blood sugar into your cells where it's used to generate energy. Your body responds by producing even more insulin, and unused glucose then roams your body and turns into fat, especially around your abdomen.
Insulin resistance is associated with pre-diabetes or full diabetes, weight gain in more than 80% of cases, dyslipidemia (high total cholesterol, high LDL, low HDL, and high triglycerides), sometimes high blood pressure and hormonal imbalance like excess estrogen which further increases weight gain. Non-alcoholic fatty liver complicates the whole issue because a healthy liver is also needed to burn fat and control blood cholesterol levels.
The key here is to lose weight by natural means, using holistic diet, whole food multivitamins, green tea and chromium. Chromium is particularly important because it acts as a gate keeper that makes sure that insulin enters the cell by improving insulin sensitivity at the receptor sites. The better chromium is not the popular chromium picolinate but at least 400mg of chromium polynicotinate.
By the way another name for insulin resistance is borderline or pre-diabetes (the more common name). If left unchecked or with prescription medication, insulin resistance can progress to full-blown type II diabetes.
Healthy weight and balanced blood glucose levels go hand in hand--you really can't have one without the other. In fact, it is estimated that when you have blood sugar elevation due to insulin resistance, you have a 90% chance of being overweight. You need to understand the real link between weight gain and rising blood glucose levels.
It's called insulin resistance. This happens when your body becomes less sensitive to its own insulin, and this makes it harder for insulin to carry blood sugar into your cells where it's used to generate energy. Your body responds by producing even more insulin, and unused glucose then roams your body and turns into fat, especially around your abdomen.
Insulin resistance is associated with pre-diabetes or full diabetes, weight gain in more than 80% of cases, dyslipidemia (high total cholesterol, high LDL, low HDL, and high triglycerides), sometimes high blood pressure and hormonal imbalance like excess estrogen which further increases weight gain. Non-alcoholic fatty liver complicates the whole issue because a healthy liver is also needed to burn fat and control blood cholesterol levels.
The key here is to lose weight by natural means, using holistic diet, whole food multivitamins, green tea and chromium. Chromium is particularly important because it acts as a gate keeper that makes sure that insulin enters the cell by improving insulin sensitivity at the receptor sites. The better chromium is not the popular chromium picolinate but at least 400mg of chromium polynicotinate.
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