How to be Slim and Active

Follow the Recommended Dietary Guidelines

Green top milk, low fat with, and high carbohydrates and lots of vegetables.

Exercise more.

The Dietary Guidelines are Wrong

If people eat more fat, they feel satisfied and so they naturally eat fewer calories.  On a high fat diet, you never feel hungry.

If people eat more carbohydrates they get sugar highs and lows.  As the sugar level falls they "feel hungry" and choose to eat again. Hence they tend to eat more.

If you rely on carbohydrates for your energy you always seem to be hungry.  You end up eating every 2-3 hours. Therefore, insulin is on all day, and you are potentially storing fat all day.  If you over-eat you will generate more adipose tissue.

Guidelines - Faulty Thinking

The guidelines rely on the assumptions that all calories are the same.  Therefore is makes no difference what you eat.  If you eat too much you'll put on weight unless you exercise enough to burn off any excess calories.

Much is made of the fact that 1gm of fat contains 9 calories, while 1gm of carbohydrate contains only 4 calories.   Too much simple mathematics and not enough understanding of bio-chemistry.