Eat More to Lose Weight?
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010This sound strange isn’t it?
The explanation is when you cut down on the fat in your diet and increase the complex carbohydrates, you can consume larger amount of food for the same calories.
If one gram of fat contains 9 calories and one gram of carbohydrates and protein contains 4 calories, that means when you consume fat, you have consumed a larger amount of calories. It also means 1.5 ounces of potato chips has the same amount of calories as two medium potatoes or twelve ounces of potatoes.
So you can actually consume more food for the same amount of calories intake.
But in my opinion, I think the best policy is a balance diet. Chinese believed in Ying and Yang which stressed the importance of balance in everything.
