Carbohydrates Past 6PM Will Make You ... Lean! Eating All Carbs in the Evening Increases Body Fat Loss by 28% Compared to Standard Low-Calorie Diet.
Image 1: This are not the Israeli police officers from the study. How do I know that? They are not obese; the officers in the study ( Sofer. 2011 ) had BMI >30 (photo by Mark Probst ) While everyone in the health-and-fitness bloggosphere knows Martin Berkhan , from leangains.com , I suppose that only a few insiders will be familiar with "Kiefer's" Carb-Nite program. The counter-intuitive, or, should I say innovative (?) idea behind Carb Nite is to refrain from eating carbohydrates in the course of the day to then do a major carb-up in the evening. An interesting idea Kiefer, a fellow physicist, developed based on the observations that against what you read on various health bulletin boards insulin resistance is naturally high early in the day and high carbohydrate (re-)feeds or "carb back loading", as Kiefer calls it, have been found to reset a metabolic machinery that has been downregulated by previous...