Instead, moderate the amount of protein in your diet to fall within 20 percent to 30 percent of your total calories.

Sleep in complete darkness. Sleep in loose fitting clothes. Keep regular sleeping hours. Try to get seven to nine hours of sleep each night. See the light first thing in the morning. Keep your bedroom slightly cool. Do not keep a TV in your bedroom.

realize that it is not as a nutrient, but as an anti-nutrient—where its benefit lies. Fiber has the ability to reduce absorption and digestion. Fiber subtracts rather than adds. In the case of sugars and insulin, this is good. Soluble fiber reduces carbohydrate absorption, which in turn reduces blood glucose and insulin levels.

Tired of feeling so lousy, she abandons the failed diet and resumes eating 2000 calories per day. Since her metabolism has slowed to an output of only 1500 calories per day, all her weight comes rushing back—as fat. Those around her silently accuse her of lacking willpower. Sound familiar? But her weight regain is not her failure. Instead, it’s to

Eggplant, kale, spinach, carrots, broccoli, peas, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, asparagus, bell peppers, zucchini, cauliflower, avocados, lettuce, beets, cucumbers, watercress, cabbage, among others, are all extremely healthy carbohydrate-containing foods. Quinoa, technically a seed but often used as a grain, is one of the so-called ancient grains.

The increase in life expectancy from 1900 to 1950 reinforced the perception of a coronary-disease epidemic. For a white male, the life expectancy in 1900 was fifty years.7 By 1950, it had reached sixty-six years, and by 1970, almost sixty-eight years. If people were not dying of tuberculosis, then they would live long enough to develop their heart

Third, sugar may be ingested by itself, which may cause people to overeat sugary treats, as there is nothing else within the food to make you “full.” There is often no dietary fiber to help offset the harmful effects.

energy for the long term; it uses glucose/glycogen in the short term. When short-term stores are depleted, the body turns to its long-term stores without problem. Hepatic gluconeogenesis provides the small amount of glucose necessary.

Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset during the holy month of Ramadan. The prophet Muhammad also encouraged fasting every week on Mondays and Thursdays. Ramadan differs from many fasting protocols in that fluids, in addition to food, are forbidden, so practitioners of this particular fast undergo a period of mild dehydration. Further, since eating i