Mens Diet Plans

Are you aged 40+ with an expanding waistline, high blood pressure or cholesterol, and stress? Professor Charles Clark is a leading expert on the health of middle-aged men and has transformed the lives of hundreds of his patients.  In his book Health Revolution For Men: Kick-start your weight loss  he shares his ideas for revolutionising men’s health and diet.

Prof. Charles Clark is an internationally recognised specialist in diabetes and glaucoma. His outstanding academic record includes the unique achievement of Doctorates in Science, Medicine and Surgery and fellowships from Europe, US and Australasia. Charles Clark and Maureen Clark are the authors of several diet books.

This book  focuses on different areas of mens health, on being diet and reaches the conclusion that controlling insulin is the key to protecting a man’s heart, and also protecting him against a host of potential killers – raised cholesterol, diabetes, cancers– as well as reducing his risk of arthritis and obesity, and even boosting his libido.

Dr Clark and others believe sugar, and its effect on the hormone insulin, is the real dietary evil behind our ever-rising obesity levels and our frightening incidence of heart disease.  In the book, he claims that controlling insulin is the key to protecting a man’s heart, and also protecting him against a host of potential killers — raised cholesterol, diabetes, cancers — as well as reducing his risk of arthritis and obesity, and even boosting his libido.

Modern diets have become dangerously carbohydrate-heavy, says Dr Charles Clark. All carbohydrates consist of sugar molecules joined together — the typical Western diet can contain as much as 66 teaspoons of sugar in one day.

While public health advice recommends carbohydrates form a major part of a healthy, balanced diet, most carbohydrates are completely surplus to our bodily requirements, Dr Clark suggests. Refined carbohydrates such as white bread, pasta and rice provide only energy, he says. They don’t provide any form of nutrition at all. What’s more, if your diet is dominated by these you could be producing too much insulin. Insulin is the master hormone for weight management, commanding the body to convert excess sugar in the bloodstream into fat — which is stored primarily in the abdomen.

Keep carbohydrates to no more than 50g a day (a small, 5cm diameter, baked potato has around 15g). For every meal, energy should, instead, come from protein, ideally both plant and animal protein and a wide variety of fruit, vegetables and salads.

When we consume proteins, the body breaks them down into amino acids, which are absorbed through the wall of the bowel and form skin, bones, muscles, tendons, and all the organs such as the brain and the heart.

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