Healthy Dieting

In order to understand the importance of CLA in the diet, lets examine the reasons why slimming diets continue to fail and why the low-kllojoule, quick-fix diet principle has become a major player in the obesity stakes. As you know, low-kilojoule diets seldom produce the desired results, And if they do, its extremely difficult to keep the lost weight off.

By now you are familiar with the pathology of the cycle known to every drastic dieter in the world: within a day or so of starting a low-kilojoule diet, the metabolism slows down. Almost all the fat consumed during this time is stored directly as fat reserves. The result? Your energy levels drop, your blood sugar levels drop, your body temperature decreases and you move less and burn even fewer kilojoules. To make matters worse, you are not losing as much fat as you think you are, in spite of your scale registering a positive loss in body weight. The reason is, of course, because this kind of diet mainly promotes the loss of water and lean muscle tissue – extremely important elements to keep your body healthy. Lean muscle tissue weighs more than fat, so naturally your loss will look quite dramatic: you’re losing heavy elements!

Eventually you dump this particular diet because its simply impossible to maintain, and you return to your normal diet. Your body now continues burning kilojoules at the reduced rate because you have permanently lost a large number of metabolically active lean muscle cells. Your fat cells fill up again (this time even more readily than ever before) and the lost weight finds its way back to your hips and thighs. Before long you’re back to your old weight, but now with added VAT, interest and penalties! I am sure you know this too well from personal experience: with every failed diet you regain more than you’ve lost in the first place. It is simple to understand: you’ve damaged your body by upsetting your fat-to-muscle ratio, meaning you have too little lean muscle tissue compared to fat.

A few additional back-handed insults of this syndrome (we know it as the yo-yo syndrome) are that, as your lean muscle tissue reduces and the fatty tissue increases, your figure deteriorates and becomes flabby and out of shape. Your skin receives insufficient oxygen and moisture and you develop cellulite and a dry, pallid skin tone. And as if that were not enough, fatty tissue stimulates hunger. So the more fatty tissue you carry, the more you experience food cravings!

In a nutshell, these diets will never work for us because they do not provide our bodies with all the nutrients required to achieve the correct fat-muscle balance, which is in turn essential for the successful and permanent loss of excess fat.

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