Make Weight Loss Effective: 10 Scientific Words We Need to Know Right Now!

Weight loss is being talked about everywhere — and we mean everywhere.

On Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, in magazines, on TV and by our friends, our co-workers, and even our family.

But is all of this chatter about weight loss today helping us lose more weight or understand weight loss better?

Not by a long shot.

Almased, a unique low-glycemic high-protein (LGHP) diet formula, can give the body a metabolic weight-loss advantage compared to a regular diet, but more about Almased and how to order it later…

Weight-Loss: Some Surprising Facts

A lot of the information out there about weight loss is just plain wrong, inaccurate and, in some cases, even dangerous!

One of the biggest weight-loss myths over the last 40 years has been “All you need to do is exercise like crazy and you’ll be okay.”

However, a recent study looked at Americans during two periods of time. Researchers specifically dug into diet data for 36,400 people from 1971 to 2008 and physical activity info for 14,419 people from 1988 to 2006.

Guess what they found? 

That people today who eat and exercise exactly the same as did people in the 1980s are somehow 10 percent heavier!

1. Adiponectin - Just like leptin, adiponectin is also released by fat (adipose) tissue. The body uses adiponectin to regulate the metabolism of sugar and fat, for both energy and weight loss. However, low levels of adiponectin are often linked to obesity. 

Even though adiponectin is produced by fat cells, obese people generally have much lower levels of adiponectin than do lean people.

Adiponectin also has anti-inflammatory effects and has been shown to help the body fend off insulin resistance — including metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes — in addition to heart disease.

This is critical, because if we’re getting enough high-quality protein and amino acids through diet and supplementation, we decrease our hunger hormones and increase hormones that make us feel full.

3. Body fat percentage – According to Jamie Luu, RDN, LDN, “Percentage of fat is the amount of body fat you have out of everything else in your body, such as your water weight, muscles and bones.”

Belly fat, also called visceral fat, is not limited to the extra layer of padding located just below the skin (subcutaneous fat). While it’s located around several vital organs — the liver, stomach, pancreas, and intestines — it can also build up in the arteries

And regardless of your overall weight, having a significant amount of belly fat increases your risk of heart disease. 

Although you can target abdominal muscles and tone them with crunches, the best belly fat exercises alone will not get rid of belly fat. 

The good news is that you can reduce the threats that stem from stomach fat because visceral fat responds to the same diet and exercise strategies that lower your total body fat.

4. Circadian rhythm – This is our internal body clock that’s synched with the time of day. 

Living in sync with natural circadian rhythms help the body function at peak performance. Studies show that metabolism and circadian rhythms are tightly linked. 

Eating, sleeping, and waking at regular times further support weight loss. Natural sleep support is mainly focused on giving your body the nutrients it needs. 

One super-important nutrient is L-tryptophan, an amino acid that helps the body make serotonin, a chemical in the brain needed for relaxation and sleep. Tryptophan is also needed to make melatonin, a hormone that controls the “sleep-wake cycle,” or the circadian rhythm.

7. Insulin – Insulin is the body’s master metabolic hormone, one which acts as a key that unlocks cells’ front doors so that glucose can enter and fuel them with life-giving energy. 

But if we regularly eat too much-added sugar, make unhealthy food choices every day and are sedentary, we can develop insulin resistance. 

Insulin resistance is when cells in your muscles, fat, and liver don't respond correctly to insulin and they’re not able to use some of the glucose from your blood for energy. To make up for it, your pancreas produces more insulin. Over time, your blood sugar levels go up. High levels of blood sugar and insulin resistance contribute to (and can lead to) a number of diseases, including diabetes.

8. Ketosis - When glucose levels are cut off (or reduced) due to low-carb intake, the body starts to burn fat instead and produces chemicals, called ketones, that can be measured in the blood. Once glucose is no longer freely available from food sources, we start to burn stored fat instead, or fat from our food. 

A low-glycemic diet can enable us to enter what is called “mild ketosis,” where we burn fat first, but, since it is not extreme, we’re still able to eat from all of the food groups, including carbs from vegetables.

9. Keto diet - the Ketogenic Diet (or Keto Diet) features low-carb eating for weight loss, but it’s different from Atkins or others. On the keto diet, the objective is to keep your carb intake very low, putting the body into a metabolic state called ketosis. 

But it is not a safe or sustainable diet, however, since a strict keto diet calls for 75% fat, 20% carbs and 5% protein each day. While some people swear by it, a strict keto diet is most definitely not recommended for most people.

10. Leptin - Leptin is a hormone, made by fat cells, that decreases your appetite. Levels of leptin — the appetite suppressor — are lower when you're thin and higher when you're overweight. 

This is because the brain doesn’t respond to leptin after a while, so these folks keep eating even though they have enough (or too much) fat already stored, a problem known as “leptin resistance.” This causes fat cells to produce even more and more leptin that isn‘t able to communicate with the brain. So these leptin-resistant people keep eating and eating, but always feel hungry. 

Protein, like the protein in Almased, naturally supports hormones that work to burn fat and help control appetite by making us feel full.

Facts win out over online misinformation every time. And the best diet is always the one that works. 

Almased could simply be the easiest, healthiest lifestyle change you ever make!