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A country which is governed by understanding poverty and misery are shameful is the way. In a country that is run without understanding wealth and honors is shameful

Confucius

Another world famous diet is the non-carbohydrate diet of Duke. I tried it, but the effect on me again wasn’t a positive one. It made me feel poorly and dizzy - because of the drop in blood sugar. I am not being subjective and I’m not disputing the fact that people can lose weight while avoiding carbohydrates. Furthermore, I am sure that this diet has helped many of you in the fight against excessive weight, but I will briefly explain my experience from it.

For starters, let me explain what happens to the body if you stop eating carbohydrates. Your body will quickly extract accumulated energy in the muscles and the liver glycogen reserves to maintain the necessary levels of blood glucose. And as already mentioned - glycogen is brain food and energy for the body. Glycogen in the body is connected with water and when the body begins to derive glycogen reserves it releases the water with the urine. That is the main reason for drastic weight loss, when you start implementing the non-carbohydrate diet. Losing a few pounds in a week or two even eating foods with high fat content will cause absolute euphoria in you. Unfortunately, as soon as you start eating carbohydrates, your body will quickly begin to recover glycogen and water stores in the tissues.

Another reason is that the metabolic processing of carbohydrates and fats as an energy source for the body is much less efficient than that of carbohydrates, which means that the body consumes more calories processing the protein and fat than the carbohydrates.

The final metabolic waste product from burning protein is ammonia, which is highly toxic, it is processed by the liver into urea, which is less toxic than ammonia and is derived from the body by the kidneys through urine.

Overall the non-carbohydrate diet has the following effects on the body:

1.Increasing liver workload - when ammonia levels increase your brain function deteriorates and may lead to loss of consciousness - hepatic coma. You can easily recognize the increased amount of ammonia in the body – by people’s breath.

2.Increasing kidneys workload - increases production of urea and leads to severe loss of microelements, especially calcium, thus it is increasing the risk of osteoporosis, especially for women in menopause.

3.It is very likely that our bodies are exposed to the adverse effects of toxic waste products from the processing of proteins. Many people, falsely believe, that excessive meat consumption builds a healthy body and bones.

A diet of repetitive food, whatever it may be invariably leads to weight loss – just as the chocolate diet proved. I must admit that after two weeks only of meat, sometimes with vegetables, I began feeling sick at the thought of only eating meat. Furthermore, when I ordered steak instead of enjoying it I started to look at it without pleasure, while dreaming of a carbohydrate dinner. Soon I began to faint; I felt absolute bodily weakness and gave up the meat diet. The result was that the weight that I had lost with frantic effort and constant hunger was gained in just three weeks.

Most people believe that healthy eating and pleasure can’t go hand in hand. My nutritional system is designed to convince you of the opposite. I love food; I feel real pleasure from eating and I do not want to sacrifice my health on the quest for the perfect figure. I spent years trying all sorts of diets and after many attempts I concluded that health and delicious food are not mutually exclusive concepts. In case you had a bad experience with healthy food, I think that with this guide I have proved to you that I eat healthy and mostly importantly I take joy in doing it. This is my belief.

Enjoy the food, the company and experience the joy of all the moments in your life! Then you will be healthy and wholesome and achieve your desired figure.