The Insulin Factor: Can’t Lose Weight? Can’t Concentrate? Can’t Resist Sugar? Could Syndrome X Be Your Problem?. Antony Haynes
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Can’t Lose Weight?
Can’t Concentrate?
Can’t Resist Sugar?
Could SYNDROME X Be Your Problem?
THE INSULIN FACTOR
ANTONY J. HAYNES
For Bharti and Ben
Contents
Part One What is Insulin Resistance?
Chapter 1 Tell Me About Insulin Resistance
Chapter 2 Are Refined Carbs and Sugar the Bad Guys?
Chapter 3 What’s My Risk of Insulin Resistance?
Part Two Let’s Take a Look at Diet
Chapter 4 How Your Digestion Affects Insulin
Chapter 5 Carbs and Proteins – Your Key to Reverse Insulin Resistance
Chapter 6 What’s So Essential About Essential Fats?
Chapter 7 Antioxidants: Your Defence Against Excess Insulin
Chapter 8 Key Nutrients to Reverse Insulin Resistance
Part Three Could Your Lifestyle Be Contributing to Insulin Resistance?
Chapter 9 Is Stress Affecting You More Than You Think?
Chapter 10 Are You Exercising Enough?
Part Four The Insulin Factor Plan
Chapter 12 Your Plan to Reverse Insulin Resistance
Chapter 13 The Insulin Factor Diet Plan
Chapter 14 What Supplements Should Take and When?
Glossary of Key Words and Terms
Why should I read this book?
If your answer is ‘yes’ to one, two or more of these questions you may well have an imbalance of a hormone in your body called insulin. And you are not alone: as many as four out of every five people have some degree of what is known as Insulin Resistance. Most of us aren’t even aware of it and, generally speaking, it is only the 22 to 25 per cent of the population who have full-blown Insulin Resistance who are more likely to get a proper diagnosis.
What is Insulin Resistance?
Insulin Resistance, also known as Syndrome X and the Metabolic Syndrome, is a condition that occurs when, for a variety of reasons, your body makes too much insulin.
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