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Unlike the high carb diet that can work against the body's system of growth producing hormones, the Anabolic Diet maximizes the production and utilization of the Big 3 growth producers - testosterone, growth hormone and insulin - and does it naturally. It also shifts the body's metabolism from that of a sugar burning, fat producing machine to that of a fat burning machine. With the body packing on extra muscle and simultaneously burning both dietary and stored body fat, the bodybuilder finds himself twice blessed. The Anabolic Diet stresses a high fat/high protein/low carbohydrate approach to nutrition.
Many in the general public will dismiss it out of hand, citing the popular beliefs that fat is a prime component in heart disease, cancer and obesity. Likewise, many bodybuilders have come to assume that dietary fat smooths the bodybuilder out and blurs definition. But they couldn't be more wrong. Dietary fat, when utilized properly as in the Anabolic Diet, can be the key to growth and success. And while some will see the Anabolic Diet as a new, revolutionary, even dangerous approach to nutrition, its basics actually originated with the dawning of mankind.
For more than 20 years the American public has been told to watch its fat intake or suffer the consequences. The national "fat hysteria" got so bad that back in 1989 the National Academy of Sciences advised everybody, regardless of the presence or absence of risk for coronary heart disease, to go on a restricted diet low in fat. The Lords of Lowfat loved this, and the food industry proceeded to take advantage of the situation, as they always do, and come out with a whole new line of "lowfat" or "fat free" products, many of which were neither.
Why groups such as premenopausal women and children, who are largely immune to coronary heart disease, should go on such a restricted diet was not explained. Meanwhile, other complex, interlinking causes of coronary heart disease like lack of exercise, obesity, stress, genetics and caloric intake went largely ignored. Fat was the culprit. Any possibility that dietary fat could be utilized in the cause of good health and physical performance was conveniently dismissed. As a result, people began eating those carbs. They began watching what they ate. Above all, they became aware of the fat they were eating and did their best to avoid it like a plague. And, guess what? As a society we got fatter than ever. We're getting fatter all the time.
The heart attack parade hasn't stopped. What's wrong with this picture? Meanwhile, bodybuilders didn't seem to be getting the kind of growth they were looking for from all those carbs. Sure, they got big. But they also got fat. By contest time, they were most often right about where they'd been before they started the whole diet cycle. The siren song of steroids became ever more inviting.
But now, you've got an alternative. A healthy and effective one. It's called the Anabolic Diet and it's been striking telling blows against the Lords of Lowfat and getting bodybuilders the growth they want without all that added bodyfat. In this chapter we'll outline the many benefits to be gained from the Anabolic Diet and begin to look at the reasons why it works. By its end, I don't think you'll be too tempted to return to the old grind of that high carb diet.
Physical benefits of the Anabolic Diet
1. Increasing Lean Body Mass Without Steroids
2. Decreasing Bodyfat Without Sacrificing Lean Mass
3. Maximizing The Effects Of Endogenous Anabolic Hormones
4. Increasing Strength While Losing Bodyfat
5. Decreasing Catabolic Activity In The Body
6. Avoiding The Health Problems Of The High Carbohydrate Diet
7. Staying In Shape Year Round Instead Of Peaking Once Or Twice
8. Improving Contest-to-Contest And Year-to-Year/No Plateaus
9. Endurance Increases
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