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The Body Clock Diet – How does it Work?
The Body Clock Diet was created by dietitian Lyndel Costain. Your body has its own clock to regulate all the processes in your body such as metabolism, appetite, energy levels and sleeping time. All of the processes are preprogrammed and take place in their time.
If you cooperate and work with your body clock you can lose weight and live healthier. When you eat a well balanced diet on a regular basis, the feeling of hunger is turned on and off by the natural way. The Body Clock Diet keeps the dieter in sync with his or her natural rhythms. The key is a healthy diet along with the right timing.
The Body Clock Diet is based on the healthy approach of balancing your diet with the necessary nutrients such as plenty of starchy carbs, protein rich foods, low-fat diary products, fruits and vegetables.
The Body Clock Diet is a 14 day diet plan and each day includes 3 well balanced main meals and 2 snacks between them. Whit this diet plan it’s very important when you eat to be in sync with your body clock. Grains and cereals should be eaten in the morning to gain effect of insulin on the brain, low glycemic index carbs and lean proteins should be consumed at dinner to gain most effect on the digestive process.
With the Body Clock Diet you may lose up to 2 pounds per week. This diet plan should be combined with healthy levels of exercise at least thirty minutes per day four to six times per week
Are Low-Fat Alternatives Help Emotional Eating?
We all have times when we eat emotionally. Emotional eating is not eating to satisfy hunger, but rather to heel some negative emotions, like boredom, sadness, loneliness and many more.
There was a recent study at the Oregon Research Institute on the effects of eating on the pleasure center of the brain. They selected two groups of woman, and gave them both a real, full fat chocolate milkshake. One group was told it was low calorie, the other group was told it was the real deal. The researchers watched the brain activity in a CT scanner.
The results were very interesting. The women that thought they had the real milkshake showed activity in the brain’s pleasure center. The women that thought they had the low-calorie version showed far less activity in their pleasure center. Again they both had the same tasty drink.
People who eat emotionally also show greater activity in their pleasure centers of their brain when they eat in general, as compared to other people who do not eat emotionally. It means that some of us eat to activate the pleasure centers of our brains to feel better. However the milkshake study showed that the low-fat version results in less pleasure which means more eating.