Quick Metabolic Balance dinner

Jazz up your dinner in Phase III

Steamed prawns and vegetables depending on what is on your plan. (weights dependant on your plan)

• 1 Tablespoon coconut oil
• 135g raw prawns de-veined and shelled
• 30g Pack choi
• 30g grated carrot
• 20g chopped spring onion
• 30g sliced button mushroom
• 30g broccoli
• Juice of half a lemon (if permitted)
• 1 clove garlic chopped
• 1inch ginger peeled and chopped

Method:

1. Heat the coconut oil in a wok or large frying pan
2. Add the chopped garlic and ginger and fry for two minutes
3. Add the rest of the ingredients except the prawns and sauté for five minutes
4. Now add the prawns and steam until pink
5. Season with salt, pepper and chilli flakes and lemon (if permitted)

Serve!

America – blessed with corn syrup

I couldn’t wait to go back to The States, not only for the incredible fresh oysters and Lobster on Cape Cod, fresh air and great beaches, but also to make sure it really is true and what I saw last time and read every day is fact…..the obesity epidemic. Why is this such a problem? Well, it is multi-factoral, I know, but one reason could be the enormous amounts of fructose they are consuming in the form of soda, processed food (especially so called diet food) and almost everything else which can be bought in a packet.

It is not the fructose from three fresh fruits which are a problem, the problem is the vast quantities which are consumed DAILY from corn syrup. It is a cheap alternative to sugar and it is in everything. Yes, it may be natural, but consuming 70kg a year per person is NOT natural.

Dr Lutsig, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, has been a pioneer in decoding sugar metabolism. His work has highlighted some major differences in how different sugars are broken down and used:

• After eating fructose, 100 percent of the metabolic burden rests on your liver. But with glucose, your liver has to break down only 20 percent.
• Every cell in your body, including your brain, utilizes glucose. Therefore, much of it is “burned up” immediately after you consume it. By contrast, fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL (the damaging form of cholesterol), and triglycerides, which get stored as fat.
• The fatty acids created during fructose metabolism accumulate as fat droplets in your liver and skeletal muscle tissues, causing insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Insulin resistance progresses to metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes.
• Fructose is the most lipophilic carbohydrate. In other words, fructose converts to activated glycerol (g-3-p), which is directly used to turn FFAs into triglycerides. The more g-3-p you have, the more fat you store. Glucose does not do this.
• When you eat 120 calories of glucose, less than one calorie is stored as fat. 120 calories of fructose results in 40 calories being stored as fat.
• Glucose suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin and stimulates leptin, which suppresses your appetite. Fructose has no effect on ghrelin and interferes with your brain’s communication with leptin, resulting in overeating.

One of the very important factors of The Metabolic Balance program is to ‘re program’ the metabolism and stimulate the hormone leptin, which prevents over eating.

Through avoiding fructose in the form of corn syrup and processed food, the following can be prevented:

• Insulin resistance and obesity
• High blood pressure
• Elevated triglycerides and LDL cholesterol
• Depletion of vitamins and minerals
• Cardiovascular disease, liver disease, gout and arthritis.

Take home message: ALWAYS read the labels and eat and drink like a cave man/woman.

Who can benefit from Metabolic Balance?

Everyone! It never seizes to amaze me how profound the effects are of this program. Not only do patients loose weight that they have been struggling with for ages, but their blood pressure comes down, their heart rates slow down, sleeping is a dream (no pun intended) and they realise how little food they need to feel satisfied. Although the portions are small, the food choices are of high biological value and keeps you full! YouThe metabolism is in balance and therefore so many other aspects of health just falls into place.

Patients are taking responsibility for their health, preparing their own food and adopting a great attitude to food and to eating. They realise how much they would snack at times when they really weren’t hungry – but bored or stressed or frustrated. These factors are life changing and in fact could save your life!

It’s a lifestyle choice and the best insurance you could ever invest in! Metabolic Balance

Metabolic Balance®

In my years of practice as a nutritional therapist I have helped many people loose weight successfully through diet and lifestyle changes. I have seen diets come and go as I am sure you have, and as I am sure you have tried many. I don’t like using the word ‘diet’ it sounds like it has a beginning and a definitive end, meaning that as soon as you are ‘off your diet’ you can go back to your old wicked wicked ways.

If there was a magic bullet or magic pill it would make someone very rich indeed, for we are officially in the middle of a obesity epidemic. Two in four Americans have Type II diabetes, children are getting fatter and we are getting more ill everyday due to poor dietary and lifestyle choices.

The bad news is that there is not a magic pill or bullet, but the good news is that there is help out there and you CAN change things around. You CAN alter your metabolism in order too lower your cholesterol, loose weight, lower your blood pressure, prevent Type II diabetes and most of all look and feel AMAZING!

The kind of diets that the majority of people follow contain way too much carbohydrates and sugar, food is depleted of essential nutrients, protein and phytonutrients. These foods stimulate the production of insulin which is our main metabolic hormone and too much of this hormone can have negative consequences to our health, body and weight.

So, does food affect our hormones? I will have to say YES, because the kind of food you eat can affect insulin production and have an effect on 30 other hormones in your body.

Through adjusting your metabolism with the aid of your own personal metabolic-balance® program you can regulate your weight healthily and naturally as well as strengthen your metabolism gently and permanently.

Is this the magic bullet we have been waiting for? The proof is already in the skinny puddings who have embarked on the program and are experiencing the benefits everyday.

Nutrition by Suné