Cutting Calories Is Bad for Your Bones

If you are overweight, chances are your doctor
will tell you to do one thing: Cut calories. 

Don’t do it. 

For one thing, it doesn’t work. 

Your chances of losing weight on a traditional low-calorie
diet and keeping it off for five years are just 5%.[1]

And now, new research
shows that low-cal diets are not only ineffective, but dangerous.

Researchers at the
University of North Carolina looked at fat in the bone marrow of mice.

Bone marrow fat makes
bones weaker. The less fat in bones, the healthier they are.

For the new study, the
research team examined the effect of a low-calorie diet on bone fat and overall
bone health.[2]

They found that a low-cal
diet led to weight loss in the short term. But it also increased bone marrow
fat and decreased bone density.

Typically, exercise makes
bones stronger. But when the animal subjects were on a low-cal diet, exercise
actually made their bones weaker.

Dr. Maya Styner was the
senior study author. She said that, “from a human perspective,” the findings
show that a low-cal diet “can have negative effects on bone health, especially
paired with exercise.”[3]

A Better Way to Lose Weight

The findings are important because many people
start dieting in middle age. This is the same time that osteoporosis begins to
become a threat. Cutting calories could accelerate bone weakening.

To lose weight, ignore calories.

Study after study shows that insulin reduction is far more important than how many calories you
eat. 

How do you cut insulin? Read our monthly journal Independent Healing to find out. You’ll discover that:

• Calorie counting was originally devised as a way to gain,
  not lose, weight.