Low Carb High Quality Diet: Food for a Thinner, Healthier Life
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Drawing on the latest research about health and weight, Low Carb High Quality Diet shows how to slash daily carb consumption in half, how to cook food properly for maximum nutrition, and how to get the energy to exercise and train. Low Carb High Quality Diet reveals the science behind carbohydrates, proteins, fat, and more, and how these affect body weight and health. Burn fat, build muscle, and decrease your risk for diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, all through consuming delicious, great quality food.
Featuring a full weekly program for tasty and nutritious breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, Low Carb High Quality Diet is all you need to get started living low carb high quality. LCHQ isn’t a calorie-restrictive diet; it’s a lifestyle that will have you looking and feeling the best you’ve ever felt!
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Low Carb High Quality Diet - Fredrik Paulún
Introduction
When I more or less introduced the people of Sweden to the Glycemic Index in the late 1990s, one might say that the population was struck with carbohydrate fever. Or with fat phobia. This resulted in fat-free yogurts with more sugar than soda and other absurd products. Today we know better. Research and studies have advanced our knowledge. It’s become evident that we should care not only about the Glycemic Index—fast- or slow-acting carbohydrates—but also about the number of carbohydrates in our food. The carbs we consume should, of course, be slow-acting, but most people would also benefit from reducing their intake of carbohydrates overall. That being said, it’s just as unwise to eliminate all carbohydrates as it is to drastically reduce your intake of fat. The body is at its healthiest with a little bit of each, and this is exactly what the Low Carb High Quality (LCHQ) diet offers.
LCHQ is my interpretation of what constitutes the best food and what is the appropriate number of carbohydrates and kinds of fat you should eat.
In the modern diet, there is one thing that predominates when it comes to causing disease and obesity: white sugar. The average American consumes way too much sugar, resulting in a surplus of energy and a nutrient deficiency. LCHQ helps eliminate sugar and prioritize nutritious food to strengthen rather than harm the body.
LCHQ is my interpretation of what constitutes the best food and what is the appropriate number of carbohydrates and kinds of fat you should eat. And, naturally, LCHQ is a lifestyle that promotes physical activity.
What Is LCHQ?
LCHQ is the abbreviation of Low Carb High Quality. It indicates a low-carb diet of high quality. High quality refers to both the quality of the food you eat, your experience of the food you eat, and how this affects your quality of life. Of course, food should provide you with energy, rather than drain energy from you. It should include enough nutrients to feed your muscles, brain, and immune system, as well as anything else that’s fighting for the nutrients in your blood and cells. I’ll describe the significance of that later in the book, but in general LCHQ is about reducing the number of carbohydrates in our diet without excluding them entirely.
Fat is a natural part of our diet, but it’s not meant to be consumed in extreme amounts and the quality of the fat we do take in is very important. Some nutritionists recommend that you eat large amounts of animal fat, as they claim it doesn’t harm your heart. In my opinion, this is misleading; there are plenty of other disadvantages to eating too much animal fat. For example, recent studies suggest that consuming too much animal fat reduces life expectancy and that saturated fat may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (66). LCHQ was created to provide dieters with the right amount of fats that will burn fat, build muscle, reduce inflammations, and keep us healthy.
The protein intake in LCHQ is higher than what most people are used to, but it provides great health benefits, such as reduced blood pressure, increased muscle mass, and a better feeling of fullness or satisfaction after a meal.
This is not a diet that restricts caloric intake. It’s a lifestyle that makes your body feel healthier and look better—without the anxiety that other diets often generate. LCHQ also includes exercise, because by simply moving your body and exercising your heart and other muscles, you can start feeling great. LCHQ is designed to be a lifestyle for the rest of your life.
Food should be enjoyed but not at the expense of your health.
What’s behind LCHQ?
I have worked with dietetics for almost twenty years and I have a master’s degree in nutrition. In plain English, this means that I’m a nutrition physiologist, and over the years I have met with and helped thousands of people. At Paulún’s Nutrition Center, my staff and I have seen many people who feel fantastic as a result of following the LCHQ diet. Their blood lipids have improved, as well as their sensitivity to insulin. In general, they’re able to sleep better and their mood is lighter now that they are making the choices that LCHQ promotes. Additionally, they tend to lose weight inadvertently, and the best part is that their body composition improves as a result of increased muscle mass. They are also left with the energy to exercise and they feel completely satisfied after each meal, which is incredibly important in order to maximize quality of life. No individual benefits from reducing his or her food intake over a long period of time, regardless of whether that means reducing portion size or simply omitting certain nutrients or foods that he or she actually enjoys.
I have firsthand experience of the benefits of LCHQ, and my own findings are supported by scholarly research that has been conducted on the topic. I have chosen a number of studies and will present them either in parenthesis at the end of my sentence or will reference them throughout the book. Please note that this is far from all the research that has been conducted on the subject; it is, however, a representative sampling.
My experience with LCHQ
I was born in 1970 and have been interested in various diets since the late 1980s. Since that time, I’ve tried pretty much every existing diet, including veganism, lacto veganism, the Stone Age diet, the junk food diet, fitness food, LCHF, low-fat diets, and everything in between. My goal has never been weight loss but simply to feel healthy and have enough energy for work, exercise, and leisure. Of course, I also have aesthetic and health reasons for keeping my body fat low. This is why my food needs to both maintain my quality of life and keep me in shape.
One can argue that LCHQ is a compilation of all of my favorite aspects of other diets. This is knowledge I have acquired over my years dieting and from the studies that I have read, and I am convinced that this is the optimal diet for us as humans.
By eating this way, I receive enough energy to exercise and plenty of nutrients for my cells. At the same time, I don’t deprive myself of anything, nor do I suffer from either a surplus or a deficiency of any nutrients. This enables me to keep to the LCHQ diet as long as I want without any negative repercussions—something that is a risk with other diets. In fact, much of the LCHQ diet resembles the Stone Age diet, with a low caloric intake and an adequate intake of the right quality of fat.
Many of my colleagues in the nutrition industry stick to a diet that resembles LCHQ, and most people who exercise for aesthetic reasons do so as well. The former group follows this diet because LCHQ food is nutritious, whereas the latter do so because it’s appropriate for building muscle and burning fat.
One of the biggest reasons why I like LCHQ is because of its versatility and vast array of ingredients. It’s said that food should be enjoyed but not at the expense of your health. With this diet, I argue that you get both. This is why I believe you will like the LCHQ diet and will feel as great as I do if you follow it.
Carbohydrates: Quantity and Type
LCHQ is a diet with a considerably reduced average intake of carbohydrates—but