The fructose diet, sometimes referred to as the Shangri-la diet, was made popular by Seth Roberts, Ph.D professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He reportedly used himself as a lab rat and tried the fructose diet on himself.
Roberts' fructose diet is based on the Set point theory. According to the theory, each person has built within him or herself a control system that dictates how much fat they should carry. You feel hungry when your weight is less than your set point. You feel satisfied when your weight is about the same as your set point and you feel full when your weight is above your set point.
Roberts believes he's found the solution to feeling satisfied, by drinking unflavored granulated fructose and unflavored canola or extra light olive oil between meals. Drinking this concoction essentially tricks the bodies set point into thinking it's full.
Drinking 2-5 tablespoons per day of either granulated fructose or unflavored canola or extra light olive oil 1 hour before eating does the trick. According to Roberts this should give you a feeling of fullness and therefore eat less.
Roberts states that "our set point is determined by the flavors that we eat." And according to him, as you eat foods more and more, the better it tastes. And because granulated fructose and extra light olive oil have no flavor, you stop thinking about eating your favorite foods and they become less attractive. He claims that this fructose diet has allowed him to lose 40 lbs. and he has kept it off.
You'll find testimonial after testimonial in his book, The Shangri-La Diet. However, there are many doctors and nutritionists who are highly skeptical of this fructose diet. Many claim it to be outright dangerous. There is much scientific evidence which show fructose may in fact be a contributor to the obesity epidemic.
One study done by the University of Lausanne's Department of Physiology in Switzerland on seven normal men, showed that fructose actually caused insulin resistance in them.
Regardless of whether or not the fructose diet works, it is clear that fructose carries with it a lot of baggage and should be looked at with caution. - 15266
Roberts' fructose diet is based on the Set point theory. According to the theory, each person has built within him or herself a control system that dictates how much fat they should carry. You feel hungry when your weight is less than your set point. You feel satisfied when your weight is about the same as your set point and you feel full when your weight is above your set point.
Roberts believes he's found the solution to feeling satisfied, by drinking unflavored granulated fructose and unflavored canola or extra light olive oil between meals. Drinking this concoction essentially tricks the bodies set point into thinking it's full.
Drinking 2-5 tablespoons per day of either granulated fructose or unflavored canola or extra light olive oil 1 hour before eating does the trick. According to Roberts this should give you a feeling of fullness and therefore eat less.
Roberts states that "our set point is determined by the flavors that we eat." And according to him, as you eat foods more and more, the better it tastes. And because granulated fructose and extra light olive oil have no flavor, you stop thinking about eating your favorite foods and they become less attractive. He claims that this fructose diet has allowed him to lose 40 lbs. and he has kept it off.
You'll find testimonial after testimonial in his book, The Shangri-La Diet. However, there are many doctors and nutritionists who are highly skeptical of this fructose diet. Many claim it to be outright dangerous. There is much scientific evidence which show fructose may in fact be a contributor to the obesity epidemic.
One study done by the University of Lausanne's Department of Physiology in Switzerland on seven normal men, showed that fructose actually caused insulin resistance in them.
Regardless of whether or not the fructose diet works, it is clear that fructose carries with it a lot of baggage and should be looked at with caution. - 15266
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If you want to give the fructose diet a try, you may also be interested in a new substance that author Deen Dragonovich has researched which prevents some of the negative affects of fructose by blocking it's ability to convert to fat.
