Carb Control - T NATION

Tip: Is White Rice the Same as Table Sugar?

TC Luoma — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 19:00:00 +0000

A Harvard Medical School study reported that eating a single serving of white rice has "almost the same effect as eating pure table sugar." Well, since it's a Hah-vard study, I guess we have to believe them. And really, all you need as evidence is to look at white-rice eating countries like China and Japan

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Eating Like a Lifter Makes You Age Faster

TC Luoma — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 04:28:25 +0000

Whenever you cook a steak or burger, you're witnessing what's known as the Maillard reaction, which is simply the binding of proteins to sugar. It's also virtually identical to what happens in your body when you habitually keep blood sugar levels above what the medical profession considers to be the normal fasting range (70 to

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How to De-Fang Your Favorite Carbs

TC Luoma — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:26:36 +0000

Make Carbs Great Again I don't want to get into a whole thing about the meaning, history, and validity of the glycemic index (GI) of foods, but suffice it to say that it's a tool by which we measure the relative ranking of foods according to how they affect blood glucose levels. Foods that have

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Tip: We Might Have Been Wrong About Diabetes

TC Luoma — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 03:31:17 +0000

All of us diet and nutrition types were pretty sure we knew all the causes of Type 2 diabetes. Whenever the topic came up, we'd look for the nearest soapbox, hook our thumbs in our suspenders, and start to drone on about its causes. We'd tell you how this here disease, folks, is brought about

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Tip: Carb Intake for Natural Lifters

Christian Thibaudeau — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Carbs for Protein Synthesis For natural lifters, it's hard to build muscle at an optimal rate when you don't consume any carbs. I'm not saying you CAN'T do it if your protein and calorie intake are high enough, but it'll be much harder. So how can carbs consumed around the workout period increase muscle growth?

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Tip: The Insulin Factor

Christian Thibaudeau — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Removing a nutrient from your diet (carbs or fat) doesn't make you lose fat if you're consuming a caloric surplus. For losing fat, calorie consumption is the most important factor. I've known plenty of keto dieters and intermittent fasting proponents who've not been remotely lean despite eating that way for a year or more. It's

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Tip: The Supplement Cure for Binge Eating

Chris Shugart — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000

A Quick Test How many of these sound like you? At least once a week... I eat a very large amount of food, to the point of feeling discomfort. It's like I can't stop once I start. I inhale this food quickly. Sometimes I take another bite before I'm finished chewing the previous mouthful. I

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Tip: C3G – How to Source the Good Stuff

TC Luoma — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G) is a polyphenol found in blueberries, grapes, black beans, and pretty much any fruit or vegetable that has a reddish blue or indigo cast to it. Studies have shown it to have anti-diabetic effects, which means that it makes you more insulin sensitive so that nutrients can be preferentially shuttled off to

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Tip: Boost Insulin Sensitivity with ACV

TC Luoma — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Most people know apple cider vinegar as the stuff you reluctantly pour over your salad when you're out of ranch dressing, but it actually has a fairly noteworthy past. The ancient Persians allegedly used it to prevent weight gain, and if that lean Xerxes from the movie 300 is evidence of its efficacy, sign me

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Keep Your Carbs, Raise Your Testosterone

Sam Miller — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Testosterone Origins Is it possible to boost testosterone with just macronutrients? If you've read your share of nutrition articles, you know dietary fat and cholesterol get all the attention when it comes to hormone production. Testosterone, like many of our other hormones, is derived from a hormone called pregnenolone. Pregnenolone relies on a cholesterol precursor

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