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A number of different factors
are responsible for putting on weight and need to be systematically
narrowed down and analyzed. Understanding how fatty cells grow is the key
to understanding weight gain or loss. Insulin allows sugar and fat to enter
the fatty cells causing their volume to increase. The key to weight control
is limiting the amounts of insulin, fat and sugar. All diets act on these
three factors. 
Without insulin, sugar
and fat cannot penetrate the cell. Without these three elements, the fatty
cells do not increase in volume. Scientists are becoming more concerned
with the glycemic index of food then of the calorie content. For example;
1000 calories coming from oysters and 1000 calories from doughnuts will not
be stored in the body the same way.
The calories from the
oysters are burned immediately, whereas the calories from the sugar and fat
rich donuts become stored in the fatty cells. The glycemic index is
non-existent for oysters and very high in doughnuts. The latter, by the
massive arrival of sugar, triggers the insulin output which then allows the
sugar and fat to enter the fatty cell increasing its volume.
To avoid insulin output,
it is important to maintain the blood sugar level by eating smaller
portions regularly throughout the day. It is the massive arrival of sugar
that triggers the insulin output. This explains why starvation diets are
not successful or healthy. It is simple, the greater is the hunger, the
more insulin will collect and store any fat and sugar it receives.
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