Thursday 20 June 2013

Counting Calories...

One of the reasons why our programmes are so effective long term, is that we help our valued clients re-learn how to eat and what constitutes a healthy meal.  Counting calories is not necessarily a sensible way to measure the value of your food, as many low calorie food may be neither healthy nor help reduce weight.  In fact many low calorific foods are packed with sugar which does nothing but stimulate the desire for more food and before you know it eating becomes a battle instead of a joy.  We don’t recommend embracing the Atkins Diet as the perfect way to eat, but what Dr Atkins clearly did demonstrate is that it is not necessarily fat that makes you fat, in fact some research suggests that it can be the very lack of fat in the diet that inhibits weight loss.  The sceptical camp is growing against the ‘calorie is a calorie’ idea, which simply sees a calorie as a unit of energy and the rules of body thermodynamics are becoming debunked.  Studies area showing that eating a bag of sweets at 300 calories or a handful of nuts at 300 will have a very different effect on the body, regardless of calorific value.  Different foods require differing levels of energy to process.  Take a look at www.nuval.com which has been put together by a team of top nutritionists which considers food not by calories but my its health merits and minuses.  It also looks at the measure of satiety, vitally important for clients who are wanting to shift a few pounds.  Let us know what you think.www.homefieldgrange.co.uk