Alkaslim: The truth about the soy protein diet shake.
Realize those who lose weight and keep
it off almost always follow the same strategy: balanced nutrition with
portion control, daily exercise and especially important, they find
a long-term motivation to change their lifestyle. Well, common sense
dictates that if you restrict yourself to two meals a day plus a shake,
your caloric intake will decrease substancially, hence weight loss.
With or without these expensive bottles of protein powder you will lose
weight by decreasing caloric intake. As long as you are choosing to
decrease your meal and calorie intake while adding soy protein to your
diet, doesn’t it make more sense to save your money, find a basic food
plan with an emphasis on including more soy protein and begin a long-term
daily exercise program?
The conventional wisdom is that soy protein
is healthy and is effective at lowering cholesterol, but is best consummed
in foods rich in them.
Information about Soy Protein for Weight
Loss
Let’s examine the facts about Soy Protein
Soy is naturally a low-calorie, low-carbohydrate
food, but doctors at Iowa State University have recently documented
two key properties of soy protein that help with weight loss independent
of calorie content. In other words, soy has inherent medical properties,
apart from low calorie content, that help with weight loss!
This Iowa State study shows that consumption
of soy protein rich in isoflavones decreases fat deposition (storage)
while increasing muscle mass. The researchers concluded that, Isoflavone-rich
soy may attenuate the increase in fat deposition and prevent loss in
lean tissue during menopause. This is extremely important as lean
muscle tissue even at rest burns up to 17 times more calories than the
same amount of fat tissue.
Let’s examine these two concepts more closely:
1. Soy helps decrease the amount of fat
your body stores. With soy you convert less calories into fat from the
food that you eat. Soy protein is also good at controlling insulin levels.
Reduced insulin fluctuations results in fewer sugar cravings.
Binge eating due to sugar cravings often defeats the heroic efforts
undertaken by millions in their diets.
2. Soy helps increase your muscle mass.
Your muscles burn energy (in the form of calories) for daily maintenance
and during exercise. Increased muscle mass burns more calories on a
daily basis even if you are not exercising. This means that you lose
even more weight while just sitting around! Soy can also improve energy
levels (which you can use to start a regular exercise program).
Other weight loss properties of soy protein:
Soy increases the rate at which your fat
cells burn stored fat. Other studies have shown that soy protein increases
activity directly inside of fat cells. Another way of saying this is
that soy protein stimulates your metabolism!
Soy is a low-glycemic index food and thus
minimizes insulin fluctuations. This helps keep sugar cravings to a
minimum and helps you to feel more satisfied and less hungry until your
next meal.
Soy gives you more energy. More energy
provides you more willpower to exercise properly.
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