Do Low-Carb Diets Cause Insulin Resistance?

April 28, 2015

pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-55272″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/low-carb.jpg” alt=”” width=”320″ height=”217″ /A few weeks back in the #8220;a title=”25 Ways to Improve Your Insulin Sensitivity” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/25-ways-to-improve-your-insulin-sensitivity/”How to Improve Your Insulin Sensitivity/a#8221; post, I apparently dropped a bit of a bombshell: that very low carb diets can induce insulin resistance. Many of you wrote to me asking about the effects of low-carb dieting on insulin sensitivity and wondering whether you should begin eating more carbohydrates to counter it. Well, maybe, but there#8217;s a right way and a wrong way to eat carbs if you#8217;re low carb. The wrong way is to just add a ton of carbohydrates on top of your low-carb Primal eating plan without changing anything else. Doing that, especially in perpetuity, will likely lead to weight gain, hyperinsulinemia, and even more insulin resistance. Bad all around./p
pNow, many people are perfectly happy on a perpetually low-carb diet. I function quite well on […]

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