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7 Amazing Ways to Prevent Diabesity While Burning Fat

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2018-04-24/by SANE

How to Lower Your Setpoint Weight and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

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If you’re like most people who have fought to keep their weight down – then watched helplessly as it crept (or leapt) back up – you’re more than a little interested in learning how to lower your setpoint weight to achieve lasting weight loss. If you have type 2 diabetes, it’s more important than ever […]

2018-04-20/by SANE

7 Amazing Ways to Prevent Diabesity While Burning Fat

SANE Health

2018-04-24/by SANE

How to Lower Your Setpoint Weight and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

SANE Health

2018-04-20/by SANE

7 Amazing Ways to Prevent Diabesity While Burning Fat

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Diabesity – the combination of type 2 diabetes and obesity – has become a public health crisis. This makes finding a healthy, sustainable way to lose weight essential for many of us. But if you’re like most people who struggle with weight problems, you’ve already tried losing weight and keeping it off. Many times. With nothing to show for it but wasted time, effort, and heartache. You’re probably wondering, at this point, if it is really possible for you to prevent diabesity while burning fat.

The answer is a resounding YES.

Prevent Diabesity While Burning Fat: How Did Weight Become Such a Big Problem?

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Just a few short decades ago, there were no discussions about how to prevent diabesity while burning fat. There was no diabesity. Obesity and type 2 diabetes weren’t much of a problem, either. Then something changed.

The National Institutes of Health list the following reasons for obesity in the US:

Television
Computer
Phone
Sleep habits
Eating habits
Medications
Physical inactivity
Medical conditions
Access to healthy foods, and safe places for physical activity
Genes

Although all of these items are factors in obesity, the biggest influence has been a shift toward poor-quality, inSANE dietary habits, starting roughly in the mid-70s.

Factors in Poor Quality Dietary Habits

Many players spurred obesity and the current diabesity epidemic. They are also responsible for the weight you’ve struggled with for many years, as well. Here are just a few of them:

Sugar

Though sugar has been around forever, and your grandmother used it to sweeten her homemade pies, sugar was never consumed regularly as it is today. It was considered a delicacy, to be enjoyed as an occasional treat.

Today, however, people are consuming sugar in vast quantities. Depending on which statistic you read, the average American consumes nearly 152 pounds of sugar per year. That’s a whopping 6 cups of sugar a week.

And it’s not just that people are eating more sweet foods; rather, the majority of processed foods have added sugar, even foods that are not sweet.

But where do you suppose most sugar consumption comes from? If you guessed “soft drinks,” you’re correct. Studies show that 33 percent of the added sugar in the average American’s diet comes from soft drinks. That’s not surprising considering that this is one of the industries that has super-sized their offerings. So…if you drink a 20-ounce bottle of soda, you’ll not only get a tasty beverage, but you will also consume 15 to 18 inflammation-causing, setpoint weight-raising teaspoons of sugar. (More on setpoint weight later.)

Processed Food Consumption

As Americans have become busier, their processed food consumption has increased. The processed food industry also responded by becoming more technologically savvy and more efficient in how they processed food. They found out how to create ultra-processed food, which strips the nutrients, fiber and protein from foods. It also adds more sugar, fat and carbohydrates to the mix.

A study published in Population Health Metrics revealed some disturbing findings:

The average American gets one-half of their calories from ultra-processed foods.
Less than one-third of their calories came from unprocessed or minimally processed foods, such as beans, pasta, vegetables.

The majority of most American’s diet, therefore, is super-processed. Most people are getting inadequate nutrition, and their body fat and health is reflecting that.

Given these findings, it is not hard to understand why diabesity has become an epidemic. Preventing diabesity while burning fat is a SANE goal, one that will help prevent many of the health problems associated with obesity.

Health Complications of Obesity

Obesity increases the risk of many serious medical conditions, including:

Cardiovascular disease
High blood pressure
Some cancers
Stroke
Osteoarthritis
Gallbladder disease
Sleep apnea
Asthma
Type 2 diabetes

Because obesity and type 2 diabetes are symptoms of the same metabolic disorder – the body’s inability to properly use insulin – obesity is the number one risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Once you develop type 2 diabetes with obesity, you have diabesity, which puts you at risk for even more serious health problems. Along with the above illnesses, diabesity increases your risk for:

Kidney disease
Blindness
Limb amputation
Altzheimer’s
Neuropathy (nerve damage)

How Extensive is the Problem?

For the past four decades, the rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes have been growing together at an astronomical rate. These two conditions are so intertwined that it’s hard to know which came first – obesity or type 2 diabetes?

But there is no doubt that working on lowering the rate of obesity is the best way to handle this problem. If we don’t do something about this, diabesity will become an even bigger epidemic. Consider these statistics:

Over one in three American adults, and more than one in six children (ages 6-19) is obese. (Source: State of Obesity)
More than 70 percent American Adults are overweight or obese. (Source: National Institutes of Health)

You Can Prevent Diabesity While Burning Fat

It’s not as hard as you might think to prevent diabesity while burning fat. It doesn’t take any complicated diet and exercise program. You don’t need to count calories or starve yourself, or workout out for hours in the gym. In fact, those methods actually work against your efforts to prevent diabesity while burning fat.

There is a much SANEr way.

The SANE Way to Prevent Diabesity while Burning Fat

SANE has been tested in over 13,000 clinical trials to be the best way to burn fat permanently. It focuses on the root cause of your weight gain – your setpoint weight – not just the symptoms.

Want to Prevent Diabesity while Burning Fat? Lower the Setpoint Weight

Have you ever noticed that no matter how many pounds you lose on whatever diet you try, you always seem to go back to the same weight you started at? (Well, usually you gain more than you started with, more about that later.)

That weight, the one you’ve tried so long to shed, is your setpoint weight. This is the amount of fat your body has decided you need to stay alive, and it just doesn’t come up with this amount will-nilly. The hormones in your brain, gut and fat send signals to your metabolism to either burn or store fat.

The communication between these hormones is constant and designed to keep you alive. It makes sense, then, that if you cut your calories, your cells panic. They believe you’re starving, and they need to save their (your) life. The first thing that happens will probably be hunger or maybe weakness or food cravings.

If you ignore those signals, your body takes more drastic measures. It slows your metabolism to conserve energy. All your efforts at cutting calories by this much because it will make you lose this much by the end of this week – according to the calorie deficit theory – is this much hogwash. You’re body doesn’t work by that mathematical theory.

Cutting Calories Drastically Does NOT Lead to Burning Fat

The calorie-deficit theory of weight loss has been proven incorrect by many studies. Oh, calories are a measure of energy and having less of them than your body needs is the way to burn fat. However, the calorie-deficit theory of weight loss treats all calories the same. In other words, if you eat a piece of cake and a piece of steak – each having the same amount of calories – your body treats these calories the same way.

So using this logic, it’s okay to eat anything you want, as long as you stay within your calorie limit. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, your body metabolizes each macronutrient differently. For instance, your body turns carbohydrates into fat super-easily, but it is not that easy to do the same thing with protein. Plus, your body burns more calories digesting protein than it does any other macronutrient. So lumping all calories into the same category is ludicrous.

Back to Hormones…

Anyway, your body is designed to keep your fat at a healthy level. But if you eat a steady diet on low-quality, inSANE foods, such as sugars and processed foods, your body doesn’t work the way it should. Your hormones send incorrect signals to each other. To keep you safe and alive, they err on the side of too much fat.

You will be stuck at this setpoint weight and not be able to prevent diabesity while burning fat – until you decide to go SANE.

Here are 7 ways to Lower your Setpoint Weight to Prevent Diabesity while Burning Fat.

Eat Non-1. Starchy Vegetables and Nutrient-Dense Protein

Non-starchy vegetables: Research has shown that eating non-starchy vegetables make you feel full quickly. It’s almost impossible to overeat non-starchy vegetables because you would be too full. For best results, eat at least 10 servings of non-starchy vegetables – such as broccoli, kale, and spinach – per day.
Nutrient-dense protein: Studies have shown that eating nutrient-dense protein sends signals to both your short- and long-term satiety hormones, meaning that protein fills you up quickly and keeps you full longer. Eating more protein also has a fat-burning effect. Try to eat 30-50 ounces of nutrient dense protein — such as lean meats, plain nonfat Greek yogurt, egg whites, or liver — with each meal.

2. Eat Whole-Food Fats and Low-Fructose Fruits

Eating whole-food fats and low-fructose fruits round out the four basic SANE food groups. Here are some guidelines:

Whole-food fats: Include a serving with every meal. Some excellent choices include coconut, chia seeds, avocado and almonds.
Low-fructose fruits: You can enjoy up to three servings of low-fructose fruits per day, such as goji berries, strawberries, lemons, and grapefruit.

A SANE diet combines water, protein and fiber, which will help to prevent diabesity while burning fat.

3. Exercise Smartly

Do you think you have to workout for hours at the gym? Think again. Eccentric exercises puts the emphasis on the extended part of the exercise. Think of picking up a weight to do a curl. You pull the weight to you, and then lower it. Lowering it is the eccentric part of the exercise, and if you focus on that part of the movement, you will burn more fat in much less time.

That’s not to say it’s easy, of course. Eccentric exercising takes only 10-20 minutes a week because you’re exercising deep muscle fibers that you hardly ever – or never – use in traditional exercise. It takes awhile to heal after an eccentric workout, but the results are much greater than regular workouts.

Try it and see. These eccentric circuit training and eccentric cardio exercises will help you prevent diabesity while burning fat.

4. Relax

We have such busy lives, it’s often difficult or impossible to relax. But that’s exactly what you need to do to prevent diabesity while burning fat. Research has shown that stress increases levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the bloodstream, which leads to accumulations of belly fat.

In addition, belly fat has been found to be a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and a number of other health problems.

So take time to relax. Listen to music. Go for a walk in the park. Take up yoga or meditation. It will work wonders for your body and your mind.

5. Get Enough Sleep

You wouldn’t think sleep would make much of a difference to your waistline, but research shows that it does. Again, the culprit is cortisol. It seems that your well-rested peers may have lower levels of cortisol circulated in their blood streams that you do.

To prevent diabesity by burning belly fat, aim for 7-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep per night.

6. Drink More Water

And don’t forget the water. Proper hydration is extremely important to fat burning. It has been shown that water helps cells burn fat. Also, studies have shown that drinking ice water actually revs up the metabolism because it has to warm up the water. This helps burn more calories.

7. Make One Small Change at a Time

If you feel overwhelmed at the thought of switching to a SANE lifestyle, there’s good news: you don’t have to make all these changes all at once. Just one small step toward SANEity will help you prevent diabesity while burning fat. Keep building on your success and, before you know it, you will be completely SANE.

How awesome is that?

Next Step: Prevent Diabesity While Burning Fat with SANE

There is much more to the SANE lifestyle. Getting 7-8 hours of sleep a night, reducing stress, staying hydrated, and performing eccentric exercises are other important factors in lowering your setpoint.

Ready to finally break free from the yo-yo dieting rollercoaster that can lead to diabesity? By balancing your hormones and lowering your body’s set-point weight, SANE is the solution you’ve been dreaming of.

Want to know the exact foods and serving sizes scientifically proven by over 1,300 peer-reviewed research studies to boost metabolism, burn fat and enjoy virtually effortless weight loss like a naturally thin person?

Begin your exciting journey to lasting, healthy weight loss today. Download the free SANE metabolism boosting food list, cheat sheet and “Eat More, Burn More” weight loss program by clicking here

2018-04-24/by SANE

How to Lower Your Setpoint Weight and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

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But it can’t happen by taking the same approach to weight loss – the counting calories, calorie deficit approach – that has failed so many times before.

To be super clear: you have not failed those diets. Those diets failed you! Obesity is a disease just like its sister disease, type 2 diabetes. Restricting the quantity of calories you consume will not fix this problem or reverse type 2 diabetes. Improving the quality of the calories you eat, however, will work miracles at lowering your setpoint weight and preventing or reversing type 2 diabetes.

Yes, Lowering your Setpoint Weight CAN Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

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The SANE Solution has proven, in over 13,000 clinical trials, to effectively lower setpoint weight, helping hundreds of thousands of people lose weight effortlessly and permanently. Such weight loss can and does reverse type 2 diabetes.

Before we dive into the details of how to lower the setpoint weight to reverse type 2 diabetes, though, we should discuss obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Insulin Resistance, Obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes

Doctors have known for quite awhile that there is a close relationship between obesity and type 2 diabetes. They have known that obese individuals often develop type 2 diabetes, but they didn’t necessarily know the reason for this. Science, however, has provided the reason.

Research has proven that insulin resistance causes obesity.

This is how insulin works:

When you consume something with carbohydrates or sugar, your body converts it into glucose. (If you’re monitoring your blood sugar, you’ll see that your level goes up right after eating.) Your pancreas releases the hormone insulin, which acts as a key to open your cells to the glucose. The cells accept the amount of glucose they’re supposed to have, and if you’re monitoring your blood sugar, you will see that your blood sugar level goes down.

For whatever reason, many people’s cells become unresponsive to insulin knocking at their door. This leaves excess glucose and insulin circulating in their bloodstreams. Insulin tells the body that it needs more fat and that it doesn’t need to burn fat. With so much insulin always circulating in your bloodstream, you literally cannot burn fat.

Eventually, obesity-driven insulin resistance causes type 2 diabetes.

Causes of Insulin Resistance

There are many reasons why you might become insulin resistant. Genetic plays a role in your susceptibility to obesity and to type 2 diabetes. However, whether you develop type 2 diabetes usually involves a combination of factors, including:

Consuming a steady diet of inSANE foods, such as sugars, processed foods, and sugary sodas.
Living a sedentary lifestyle
Being overweight or obese
Having a family history of diabetes
Having high levels of inflammation
Experiencing heightened stress (yes, stress can disrupt your blood sugar control!)

Prevalence and Dangers of Type 2 Diabetes

The major cause of obesity and type 2 diabetes, however, is the consumption of low-quality foods that have become a regular part of the American diet, as it has worldwide. Indeed, the statistics on obesity and type 2 diabetes reflect these low-quality dietary choices.

For instance, a third of the population of the United States is obese, and this figure has been projected to rise to 50 percent by 2030. Over 600 million adults worldwide are obese. The statistics on type 2 diabetes have been keeping pace with those of obesity.

Though more than 29 million people in the United States suffer with diabetes, an estimated 8.1 million more may be undiagnosed and oblivious to the danger that lives inside them. According to the International Diabetes Federation, more than 400 million people worldwide have diabetes.

These figures are staggering, but only the tip of the iceberg to the future numbers if society doesn’t find a way to cure the obesity problem once and for all. What kind of problems?

Health Complications of Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes can affect every organ in the body, so its complications are varied and can be devastating. Some complications of type 2 diabetes include:

Blindness
Cataracts
Heart disease
Stroke
High blood pressure
Neuropathy (nerve damage)
Gallbladder disease
Kidney disease
Leg and foot amputations

Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes

The basic treatment for type 2 diabetes is to control blood sugar through diet and, if necessary, medication and/or insulin injections. The dietary recommendations for type 2 diabetes, if followed, will help keep blood sugar levels steady. However, lowering your setpoint weight can prevent or reverse type 2 diabetes, as well as help you lose weight safely and permanently.

Lowering Setpoint Weight: Key to Reversing Type 2 Diabetes?

Though you can reverse this disease by lowering your setpoint weight and making some lifestyle changes, it is always better to try to prevent type 2 diabetes than to reverse it. Research has shown that losing just 10-15 pounds can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, so working on weight loss issues is obviously a big issue. However, the way most people try to do this is counterproductive.

Severely restricting calories, going on starvation diets, working out for hours to burn calories and lose weight – those are methods that are second nature to most dieters. But these methods not only don’t work for long-term weight loss and to reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes, but they actually work against you. Instead of fat loss, these weight loss plans lead to muscle loss. Since muscle burns more calories than fat, losing muscle mass slows your metabolism.

The kind of dieting most people do also directly leads to yo-yo dieting, and this is because calorie restriction raises the setpoint weight.

The Thing about the Setpoint Weight

If you’ve struggled with your weight, you know how ornery and downright nasty your fat stores can be when you try to rid yourself of them. In the beginning, they give way a little bit. The first 10 or so pounds are a breeze to drop, just enough to get you excited, and then…

Nothing, or almost nothing.

Then, in defiance, you cut your calories even more, and it’s even worse. You wonder how some “expert” somewhere came up with that calorie-deficit theory, because it’s certainly not working that way for you.

You are correct.

Though calories are important in weight loss, the calorie deficit theory that we’ve been struggling to make work for over 40 years, missed the mark quite a bit. It assumes, for instance, that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Calories are the same, the theory goes, and it doesn’t matter from which food it comes, as long as you end up with a calorie deficit, you will use such-and-such number of pounds based on some calculation that they’ve been using forever.

There’s much more to it, than that.

Hormones, the Metabolism, and Setpoint Weight

Your body isn’t some tidy scale that measures and compares calories in with calories out. Rather, studies have shown that the body is more like a thermostat. It actually adjusts the calorie burn based on the needs of the body and the setpoint weight.

This is why a naturally thin people – you know, the ones you’ve always envied because they had such a “high metabolism” – could eat anything they wanted without gaining an ounce. Their bodies, you see, were adjusting the calorie burn of several metabolic processes to keep them at their lower setpoint weight. Easy peasy. It is doing it for you, too. It adjusts the calorie burn to keep you at your higher setpoint weight.

It should be obvious to you by now that you have a setpoint weight – it’s that weight that you tend to stay around – and it varies by 10-20 pounds. Your setpoint weight is the amount of fat your body thinks you should have based on signals from your hormones. There are hormones in your brain, your gut, and your fat stores, all sending signals of any changes so that the body can keep you alive. The body, you see, always seeks balance.

Though there is a large genetic component to obesity and type 2 diabetes, diet and lifestyle factors play a big role, as well. In this case, if you eat an inSANE, low-quality diet of processed foods, sugars, and carbohydrates, it creates a clog in your hormonal system. Your hormones can no longer send proper messages to each other. The result is fat accumulation, obesity and eventually, type 2 diabetes.

SANE Eating Tips to Lower your Setpoint Weight

As mentioned earlier, calories are important, but it’s your body’s job to monitor and adjust them. Studies have shown that it’s the quality, not the quantity, of the foods we eat that determines our setpoint weight.

The quality of food is based on three things:

Satiety: How quickly calories fill us up, and how long they keep us full.
Aggression: How much and how quickly a food impacts our hormones, namely sugars.
Nutrition: How many nutrients – such as vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids – these calories provide.
Efficiency: How many of these calories can the body store as fat.

The more Satisfying, unAggressive, Nutritious, and inEfficient at being stored at fat, the higher the calories’ quality. This makes it a SANE calorie or food item, one that heals our hormones, keeps us from overeating, and lowers our setpoint weight.

The exact opposite is the case for low-quality, inSANE foods. Foods such as sweets, starches and processed foods cause a hormonal clog, spur overeating, and raise your setpoint weight.

Many studies have shown that those who eat SANE diets lose more weight than those who eat inSANE ones.

Principles of SANE Eating

The principles of SANE eating are ridiculously simple. All you need to do remember, really, is try to eat foods as close to their natural state as possible. This means purchase vegetables in a state you could pick if you had your own garden – fresh or frozen is fine – and meat you could hunt.

SANE foods will be on the perimeter of the store, many of which may not have ingredient labels for you to read.

Here’s some basic principles:

Stay away from processed foods and anything with added sugar as much as possible.
Avoid all starches
Beef should be grass fed.
All meat and seafood should be humanely raised.

Specific SANE Food Tips

There are four SANE Food groups. Try to eat the first three together at every meal as these will work together to fill you up stabilize your blood sugar.

Non-starchy vegetables

Have 10+ servings of non-starchy vegetables per day. Having just three or four servings of non-starchy vegetables at each meal will give you the 10+ you need for the day. But if you aren’t a big veggie fan, don’t worry. Simply purchase a high-powered blender and make green smoothies. This is actually the very best way to get all your servings of veggies in a day.

Nutrient-Dense Protein

Have 3-5 servings per day. (A serving is the size of a man’s hand.) Studies have shown that protein sends signals to your short- and long-term satiety hormones, so eating this at every meal ensures you’ll fill up fast, stay full longer, and avoid snacking on bad things between meals.

Whole-food fats

Have 3-5 servings a day, and be sure you eat the food, and not just the oil. Contrary to what you may have heard, eating fat does not make you fat, and it is necessary to many bodily functions. Plus, fat satisfies your appetite and keeps you from overeating.

Low-fructose fruits

Have 0-3 servings per day. In general, berries and citrus fruits are your low-fructose options. They can be a yummy treat, or add some berries or half of an orange to a green smoothie.

Eating SANE is fun, easy, and it will help prevent and even reverse type 2 diabetes. What more could you want?

Next Step: Lower Your Setpoint Weight and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes with SANE

Begin your exciting journey to lasting, healthy weight loss today. Download the free SANE metabolism boosting food list, cheat sheet and “Eat More, Burn More” weight loss program by clicking here

2018-04-20/by SANE

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