An oversimplified version of the idea behind The ROS Theory of Obesity is that a diet high in saturated fat will cause “physiological insulin resistance” in your fat cells and they will fail to store fat. This will make you lean in time. When I first posted The Croissant Diet, my assumption was that trying …
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After publication of The Croissant Diet, which promotes a diet combining highly saturated fat and starch for weight loss, I got a lot of questions along the lines of whether it mattered if fat was eaten before starch. Or maybe protein should be consumed first? The proposed mechanism of the croissant diet is that saturated …
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In The Croissant Diet specification, I advise against the consumption of pork fat. This is ironic since The Croissant Diet is loosely based on the historical diet of France and when I was at The French Culinary Institute every recipe started with the line “Saute pork belly in butter”. So why am I now saying …
I published Introducing The Croissant Diet (TCD) on December 3rd and it’s now the 14th so there hasn’t been a ton of time for people to experiment, but I’m getting a lot of feedback about how satiating the combination of starch and saturated fat is. That matches my experience on TCD. This could be due …
Much of the science behind The Croissant Diet and The ROS Theory Of Obesity is based on the interplay between insulin signalling and ROS production. The theory is that insulin is the signal to store fat and ROS blunts insulin signalling. With that in mind I made this 2D graph of the different macromolecules, with …
There are three basic kinds of fat, Saturated Fat (SFA), Monounsaturated Fat (MUFA) and Polyunsaturated fat (PUFA). Fats are also called “fatty acids”, hence the term PUFA: PolyUnsaturated Fatty Acid. Fats are a chain of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms bonded to them. Each carbon in a chain can bond to two hydrogen atoms. This …
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Are you serious? Is this some type of ruse or joke? Of course it is!! When I was explaining the diet to a good friend doing the carnivore diet I was laughing uproariously. I amuse myself and yes, it’s meant to be cheeky. BUT! I have done experimental science in a past life and I …
The specification of The Croissant Diet is a living document. I plan to update it regularly as we learn. The central tenet of the croissant diet is that a primary regulator of whole body energy flux is the ratio of saturated to unsaturated fat. The secondary tenet is that starch is a great delivery vehicle …
OR: How I eliminated my spare tire by eating croissants using the six scariest words in the english language: saturated fat, insulin resistance and free radicals. While researching for the series “The ROS Theory of Obesity“, I came across Valerie Reeves thesis via a post from Hyperlipid. She fed a group of mice a diet …
