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“What is Insulin?
Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, thighs, belly—and generally every place you don’t want it to be.Ìý”
― Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, thighs, belly—and generally every place you don’t want it to be.Ìý”
― Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
“The Premise ofÌýGlucose Control Eating©
You control the amount of glucose you put into your bloodstream. Put in less glucose, your body will produce less insulin, and you will lose weight. Put in more glucose, your body will produce more insulin, and you will gain weight. That brings us to the premise of this book.
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Control your glucose, and you control your weight.
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How do you control your glucose and your weight?Ìý
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How can you know which foods create lots of glucose and weight gain and which create less glucose and weight loss?
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In the book,ÌýGlucose Control Eating©, I will not only tell you,Ìýbut I will also show you, based on over 85,000 blood glucose tests, how much glucose different foods will create in your body.”
― Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
You control the amount of glucose you put into your bloodstream. Put in less glucose, your body will produce less insulin, and you will lose weight. Put in more glucose, your body will produce more insulin, and you will gain weight. That brings us to the premise of this book.
Ìý
Control your glucose, and you control your weight.
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How do you control your glucose and your weight?Ìý
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How can you know which foods create lots of glucose and weight gain and which create less glucose and weight loss?
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In the book,ÌýGlucose Control Eating©, I will not only tell you,Ìýbut I will also show you, based on over 85,000 blood glucose tests, how much glucose different foods will create in your body.”
― Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.”
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“Associated with this weight gain are increased risks
in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart
attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death.
Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating
adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy
nearly $150 billion in 2009.”
― Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction
in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart
attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death.
Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating
adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy
nearly $150 billion in 2009.”
― Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction
“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.”
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“Our eyes are meant to show us food when we are hungry, not to make us hungry when we see food.”
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“The slightest nudge can send a fruit pyramid collapsing into ruin. Perhaps this is why there is so little ancient architecture and art left in the world. Perhaps ancient fat people bumped into buildings and statues and made them fall. Perhaps this is the real reason Rome fell”
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“That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street.
The experts confirm what the obscured view in front of us tells us.
They estimate that 64% of adults in the United States are obese and
that this percentage is growing. Even our children are being affected,
as nearly every one in three American children under the age of 18
is overweight.”
― Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction
The experts confirm what the obscured view in front of us tells us.
They estimate that 64% of adults in the United States are obese and
that this percentage is growing. Even our children are being affected,
as nearly every one in three American children under the age of 18
is overweight.”
― Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction
“You can feel like you will starve to death if you do not eat within 21 seconds; not eat at all; and still be alive after 21 days.”
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“Never second guess a BBW”
― A Fat Girl's Confidence: Beating Depression and Building Self Esteem
― A Fat Girl's Confidence: Beating Depression and Building Self Esteem
“Growing up Fat Black Female and almost blind in america requires so much surviving that you have to learn from it or die.”
― The Cancer Journals
― The Cancer Journals
“Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth?"
"Couldn't tell you to save my life."
"Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world."
"De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason."
"Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there."
"Well then, what was they put here for?"
"To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.”
― Mules and Men
"Couldn't tell you to save my life."
"Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world."
"De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason."
"Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there."
"Well then, what was they put here for?"
"To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.”
― Mules and Men
“She let herself go physically: That has to be said. She became--there is not a polite way of putting this--blowsy. She sagged; for all her good works, her body became the emblem and manifestation of her grief.”
― Quichotte
― Quichotte
“We sometimes show lack of compassion by not giving a fat person a lift. Or by giving them one.”
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“Losing 10 grams of excessive fat is way more beneficial for our health than wearing something that makes us look 10 kilograms lighter.”
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“Researching Magee’s Disease led me to conclude that I was suffering from malnutrition, despite being 30 pounds overweight.”
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“Aw, he don’t look no better in his clothes than you do in yourn. He got a puzzlegut on ’im and he so chuckle-headed, he got a pone behind his neck.â€�
Joe looked down at his own abdomen and said wistfully: “Wisht Ah had a build on me lak he got. He ain’t puzzle-gutted, honey. He jes� got a corperation. Dat make ’m look lak a rich white man. All rich mens is got some belly on ’em.�
“Ah seen de pitchers of Henry Ford and he’s a spare-built man and Rockefeller look lak he ain’t got but one gut. But Ford and Rockefeller and dis Slemmons and all de rest kin be as many-gutted as dey please, Ah’m satisfied wid you jesâ€� lak you is, baby.”
― Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Joe looked down at his own abdomen and said wistfully: “Wisht Ah had a build on me lak he got. He ain’t puzzle-gutted, honey. He jes� got a corperation. Dat make ’m look lak a rich white man. All rich mens is got some belly on ’em.�
“Ah seen de pitchers of Henry Ford and he’s a spare-built man and Rockefeller look lak he ain’t got but one gut. But Ford and Rockefeller and dis Slemmons and all de rest kin be as many-gutted as dey please, Ah’m satisfied wid you jesâ€� lak you is, baby.”
― Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
“Jus' cause you done set round and growed ruffles round yo' hips nobody can't mention fat 'thout you makin' out they talkin' bout you.”
― Mules and Men
― Mules and Men
“I don't know why weighing 140 pounds means I'm middle-aged, but it does. It is a magic number. A matronly number. More important than wishing young people would get their hair out of their eyes and more important than thinking Green Day sounds banal and that MTV is too sexist. If I could lose ten pounds, then maybe I could put off middle age for a while. But the thought of dieting, of thinking of food all the time, seems like too much to contemplate.”
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“Because they are fat, some children look like their parents, and some look like they’re parents.”
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“The restless longing for food can only be truly satisfied when we allow God to fill that desire.”
― Daddy's Little Girl
― Daddy's Little Girl
“You need to be careful about being overweight as a man, as excessive fat produces the female hormone estrogen.”
― Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
― Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Losing weight revolves around changing your diet and exercising more.”
― Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
― Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Most people are eating too much and exercising too little. If you cannot get the food down, then the exercise must go up.”
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“Succeed and give, and it helps you live; But no man can help you die.”
― Health, Happiness, & Longevity: Eastern and Western Approach
― Health, Happiness, & Longevity: Eastern and Western Approach
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