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Why We Get Fat
Why We Get Fat is an invaluable key in our understanding of an international epidemic and a guide to what each of us can do about it. A follow up to his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century, none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat, and the good science that has been ignored, especially regarding insulin’s regulation of our fat tissue.

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In its most basic form, carb cycling (or carbohydrate cycling) is an approach to eating in which you greatly restrict your carbohydrate intake for a set period of days, followed by a brief period of medium to high carbohydrate intake. Then you repeat this cycling process: carbs off for a while, then on briefly, then back off. The idea behind it is to get your body to use it’s fat stores for energy rather than the carbs you’re feeding it.

Low-carb diets are hard to sustain for long periods of time, especially if you’re on an intense exercise regimen. If you’re doing an extreme program AND you’re going low-carb, you’ll start “bonking” in your workouts around the six-week mark. One way to potentially combat this is by carb-cycling rather than just doing low/no carbs in general.