The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (The Wellness Code)

potential food shortage—leptin levels are low. The relative absence of leptin’s message tells the brain, “I don’t have enough body fat!” Your brain then tells you to eat more and move less, which serves to change your behavior until your body fat is within a safer range. You become hungrier (and probably eat more), your metabolism slows down (thank

When cortisol is elevated, any carbohydrate intake will immediately promote fat storage, and most likely as the deep abdominal fat called visceral fat, which is the most dangerous and inflammatory kind of fat. This makes concentrated carbohydrate consumption uniquely damaging to a stressed-out person.

in order to lower insulin and the body’s tendency to accumulate fat, we should avoid eating easily digestible, high-carb food: sugar, bread, cereal, grains, pasta, potatoes, rice, corn, juice, beer, wine, soda.

The ingestion of lots of carbohydrates, followed by the secretion of lots of insulin causing low blood glucose levels, is perceived as a stressful event by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. This homeostasis-monitoring part of your endocrine system triggers the fight-or-flight response, causing your adrenal glands to release epinephrine