The long and short of our analysis of weight loss products shows that the historic approaches to weight loss delivers short-term benefits.  But, once the: stimulants, fat blockers, carb blockers, starvation diets, specialty diets, special packaged foods or strenuous exercise stops, people regain weight.

Some time ago, we prepared a paper titled:  “Today’s Choices are Tomorrow’s Consequences”.  In it, we made the point that the dietary choices people are making, everyday, contribute to either declining health or reliable health. 

Choosing fast, processed and preserved food is a choice, made knowingly or unknowingly, to accept the prospects of declining health.

Further, we suggested that people could reduce the likelihood of enduring the symptoms of declining health by choosing whole, fresh food more often and filling the gap with supplements.

Next, we prepared a paper titled:  “The Missing Diagnosis”.  In it, we made the point that many of the discomforts of declining health can be attributed to one diagnosis:  Hand to Mouth Disease.

Frankly, I can only empathize with those of you who are experiencing declining health, because I am healthy.  I make the choice, everyday to invest in health.

I chose to consume foods and beverages that feed my body rather than those that challenge my body.  And, I use supplements to fill the gaps brought on by choosing to eat cooked foods (I take enzymes) and live in Colorado where fresh fruits and vegetables aren’t grown year-round. (I take trace minerals, red and green phytonutrients).

We prepared a paper title:  “Invest in Health or Pay to be Sick” to describe the logic involved in making a decision like the choice I make to care for my body.

The point is:  dealing with being overweight or obese is not like dealing with an occasional headache.  You can’t take a pill and make it go away.  Gaining weight, from our perspective, is one of the symptoms of declining health brought on by dietary choices that culminate in metabolic dysfunction, malnutrition, constipation and addiction to foods with a high glycemic load.

Being overweight is a symptom.  It is a predictor – that you will experience other symptoms, in future years, that are the consequences of you choices.

Some years ago, we presented a paper, Healthy People Don’t Get Sick.  It is as true today as the day we presented the paper.  While you should read this paper, the summary is:  if you treat you body with respect, it will return the favor. 

There are 4 Simple Truths that everyone should know about staying healthy.  Rather than outlining the subject, you can read them for yourself.   The 4 Simple Truths demystifies the issues surrounding what you need to do to protect your health.

Another report:  “Caring for Your Body”, strips away the scientific jargon to examine, in plain English, the simple elegance of the functioning of the body.  But, it is only applicable once you examine and discard the myths that are contributing to declining health.

Back to Weight Loss …

A good guess is that most of you are malnourished from eating too many “quickie” meals and over-stimulated at work and home.  Why throw more wood on the fire?

All of the attempts to deal with weight gain fail to deliver, in the long run, because they fail to account for the cause – habits.  The false paradigms the allow people to believe they can ignore the needs of their bodies and still stay healthy; that someone, or something, can fix what they have broken.

When you stop treating weight gain and obesity as a disease, and recognize that it is a sign of declining health, which is a symptom of Hand to Mouth Disease, the prospects for meaningful long-term weight management improve dramatically.

The choice is yours.  If you continue to abuse the resiliency of the human body, it will, sooner or later, fail to bounce back from your abuse.

 

You have a lot to see, and to consider, if you’re trying to get information about losing weight from the web.

 With all those options, it is no wonder people are confused.

 Earlier this year, we went through an intensive analysis before we decided to re enter the weight loss supplement market.  The analysis was insightful and, surprisingly similar to the analysis we concluded in 1990.

 You may find the analysis interesting, and it may help you make sense out of all the “stuff”, on the web, about weight loss.

 Here is an overview of our analysis of the weight loss options we investigated.

 There are several options available to assist people during the weight loss process in the market today. 

They are:

 Eat less – Exercise More

Certainly, there is nothing new here.  Logic dictates that this approach should work, but, in most cases, it doesn’t!

 In fact, it may contribute to the difficulties for long-term weight management.

 In the world of metabolism, the body views less food, with more exercise, as a famine.  It responds by turning down Basal Metabolic Rate (the metabolism that is responsible for burning 70% of you calories, everyday) to conserve energy expenditure.  When the famine continues, the body begins to use the protein, in tissue, as a source of BMR energy (ketosis) to conserve the ready source of energy in fat for emergencies.

 Once the calorie restriction stops, BMR may, or may not, reset to its healthy “burn rate”.  The individual, whose BMR fails to reset, soon gains the lost weight back – and often more!  Thus begins the cycle that is the phenomenon referred to as the YO-YO effect.

 Fat Blocker Dietary Supplements

This category of supplements for weight loss, espouse another concept that seems to make sense.  The theory goes:  if you stop fat from leaving your digestive system, you can stop the fat from accumulating around the body.

 You need to know that calories are a measure of the energy value of food:  Protein offers 4 calories/gram, Carbohydrates – 4 calories/gram, Fat – 9 calories/gram. (For most of us, a gram is approximately 3.5 ounces.)

 Back to the world of metabolism, fat is a critical part of energy production.  The engine that sparks metabolism (mitochondria) burns water, glucose (sugar) and fat to produce energy.   Stored fat requires more internal activity than dietary fat, which slows down the production of energy at the cellular level.

 The issue boils down to the good fat – bad fat dilemma.  Indiscriminately blocking fat may not be such a good thing for supporting healthy metabolism.

 Carbohydrate Blocker Dietary Supplements  (Recently, this category has been recast as a sugar blocker)

To understand the theory of carb blocking, you need to know that all carbohydrates are rendered into glucose in your digestive system and that glucose is the primary energy-producing component of metabolism.

 There are two types of dietary carbohydrates, categorized by how quickly the body converts them into glucose:  Simple and Complex.

1. Simple Carbohydrates are converted very quickly into glucose.  They are generally white:  flour, starchy grain (white rice), milk (and things made from milk), sugar, fruit juice and starchy tubers (things that grow underground).
2. Complex Carbohydrates require more digestion, and, therefore, the glucose “trickles” into the metabolic process.  They are typically whole foods:  grains, fresh vegetables (that grow above the ground) and fresh fruit.

 While both types of carbohydrates have the same caloric value, 4 calories/gram, the impact is vastly different.  An easy way to understand the difference is:  simple carbohydrates “explode” into the metabolic process while complex carbohydrates are “metered” in.

 The best analogy is to view the process like the way gas is metered into a car’s engine.  Too much fuel, too soon, the engine will flood.  In the case of glucose, the body works hard to avoid “flooding out”.

 The issue boils down to a good carb – bad carb dilemma.  Like fat blockers, blocking the source of glucose, the primary source for energy, will affect healthy metabolism.

Stimulants

Natural stimulants, like caffeine, are common and widely used in weight loss supplements.  Their theory is: stimulating the adrenal system, with a natural stimulant, will increase caloric demand thereby increasing the burning of stored fat to accommodate that demand.

 The issue boils down to one question:  “How much is too much.”  A typical consumer ingests lots of caffeine:  coffee, tea, soda, and now, energy drinks.  Besides caffeine, sugar, contained in these various beverages, in processed and fast food and in juices, is stimulating the adrenal system.

 Add stress, at work, home and the background stress created by worrying about economic issues, friends, etc, the adrenal system is at a tipping point as it is.  Adding more pressure on the adrenal system, without supporting it, might carry the process too far.

 In fact, one of the most likely new supplement categories will be adrenal dysfunction.  Research is surfacing that suggests that modern lifestyle choices may already be taxing the adrenal system.  As a result, NUPRO is evaluating historical uses of herbs, various current findings to access the possible application of a natural supplement, or system, to address the issue.

 Other Approaches

As one would expect, from an issue that impacts so many people, there is a plethora of choices.  Strenuous exercise tops the list, followed closely by weigh-in clubs, clubs with mail order “healthy food portions”, Clinics offering injections, hypnosis and bariatric surgery that seeks to restrict, or remodel the digestive tract to disrupt the absorption of nutrients.

 On the main, the options in this category are expensive, and due to the radical life style changes they require, provide a possible short term benefit that diminishes once the participant can no longer afford the time or expense or lacks the discipline to proceed.

 Judging by the almost epidemic state of being overweight or being obese, these approaches may not be  working quite as well as one would expect.  The weight management issue is big … and growing.  There is ample opportunity if … .

Next week:  What are the  formulation objectives for NUPRO’s new weight loss products.

 

 We just finished the landing page for the NUPRO weight loss systems and products.  I would appreciate you taking a look and, if you have a minute, reporting your impression.  Thanks for your time.

 As an aside, any of you who are paying more that $3.00 per day for your weight management program, or supplements, should pay close attention to the featured system at the site.  It is a bargain at the suggested price; with the discounted sale price, it is a steal.  So, no excuses about money.   What is the price tag for your health? 

 I wrote, earlier, that the campaign would be called:  A New You in 90 Days!   It is and it performs as advertised!

Thanks again for your help.

 

•  There are theories espousing the merits of dieting that range from starvation to consumption of mostly carbohydrates, mostly protein and mostly water.
•  There are theories extolling the merits of exercise from gym enthusiasts, yoga, and other instructors.
•  Others, who adamantly believe they have found a secret potion, lotion or twig, extoling the anecdotal benefits of their remedy for obesity.

 At this point, you must know our Company formulates and sells dietary supplements.  So, bear that in mind as you read on.

 To help clear up matters, there isn’t one simple way to lose weight (or to become healthy).  Each person is different – with diverse lifestyles, diet and heritage so results may vary.  But, there is a commonality the runs through all of us.

Humans are not the fastest or strongest creatures on the planet – we are among the most successful species on earth because our ancestors were farmers and ranchers.

• Early on, living by harvesting wild plants and animals and, later on, harvesting domesticated versions of the same.
•  There was, amonst our ancestors, a minimum level of exercise required to keep thier bodies fit.  It involved walking to find food, stooping to pick it up, light lifting to make their environment habitable.
•  Our ancestors were experts at recognizing a pending danger from one of the stronger, faster other creatures and taking an appropriate action by choosing to fight or run. 

 On one hand, those who didn’t, or couldn’t, follow this regime are not our ancestors because they didn’t survive.   On the other hand, thanks to the survivors who are our ancestors, we are blessed bodies that are adaptable, resilient and forgiving bodies.

 This brief review of the past 5000+ years of history is particularly helpful when applied to the context of the last 100 years. 

Today, we have automobiles, supermarkets, homes that are automatically heated and cooled and jobs with challenges that are often threatening. 

 The adaptability of the human body is being tested by this explosion of creature comforts and stress.  They are creating disparity between what the body expects and what it is getting that, if left unfilled, produce the predictable outcome we are experiencing:  obesity and declining health.

 One would think that we could overcome 5000+ years of adaptation in short order with all the technology at our disposal, but we haven’t – so far.

 Researchers are predicting that this generation of children will be the first that have a shorter life-span and experience more health challenges than any other generation in modern times.

And, judging from the ever-expanding use of healthcare services, our generation isn’t doing so well, either.

 Personally, I think it is this misconception that technology will win the day that is to blame.  This paradigm lulls us into relying on something or someone to undo the harm we cause to ourselves.

 Resilience is another characteristics that our ancestors passed on is resilience.  It allows for the body to bounce back to balance if and when it expectations have been met.

 Herein lies the your opportunity.  You can change the way things are by changing the things you do.

Our ancestors:

• experienced moderate exercise, waking, stooping and light lifting. 
• They consumed whole, fresh food.
• They dealt with threats, in a civil fashion, and then forgot about them. 

Do that!

 Admittedly, there will be gaps, particularly in your diet.

Fill those gaps with well-rounded quality supplements that will cost less than a quicky, fast-food meal or a designer cup of coffee.

 A forgiving body is the final characteristic we inherited from our ancestors which offers all of us hope.

Using its newly found bounty of moderate exercise, wholesome nutrition and lower stress levels, the body will begin to restore itself to the fullest potential.

 The questions, at this point, are:

• How many of you will actually relinquish the false paradigm that technology will save the day?
• How many of you will take responsibility to be good shepherds for your body?

 While not suggesting a return to Neanderthal time, you can manage many important factors. 

You have the power.

• The power over your checkbook.  Stop purchasing foods that you know aren’t wholesome.
• The power over how you spend your time.  Use it wisely in your work, with your family, for moderate exercise and rest.
• The power over the stress that you allow in your life.  Deal with it the forget it.

 And, if you’re still wondering what else you can do, here’s a good place to start.  Read this material.

 Returning to weight management, the same culprits, diet, exercise and stress are blame.  Losing weight is a three-step process:

1.  Maintain your weight going forward

• Change the things you do.
• Do more thing right than wrong.

2.  Put you body back into balance by addressing:

• Waking time metabolism
• Sleeping time metabolism
• Nutritional deficiencies
• Mineral Cofactor deficiency
• Regularity

3.  Address other deficiency or dysfunction:

• Nutrition:  ranging from a balanced, whole food diet to crucial trace minerals
• Phytonutrients:  found in colorful vegetables and fruit
• Digestion:  adding back the food enzymes that cooking destroys and renewing intestinal microbes
• Ph Balance: concentrate on foods that restore internal alkalinity
• Specific Male or Female issues

 Health isn’t a destination, it’s a journey and you’re in charge.

 As you were previously warned, NUPRO offers a comprehensive family of weight management systems and products to help you address the issues of weight management.  After 4 years of development, we are quite proud of our efforts.  We named the 4 systems composed of 6 products, Thinrite™ by NUPRO.  If you are thinking about embarking on a program to manage your weight, it is well worth considering.

 P.S.  While you’re there, request the comprehensive package of tips, recipes and information.  It will be worth your time.

 

 Well … take it easy on me big fellas!

 If gym exercising is your deal, more power to you.  If you find solace in your time in the gym, or however you choose to “sweat”, knock yourself out!  If others choose to join you, more power to them, too.

But, you need to know that many of us don’t share your enthusiasm.

Gym exercise is not my thing.  My exercise of choice is riding horses.  For me, the experience is physical, mental and, because I compete in events with other like-minded people, social.  I particularly enjoy the therapeutic qualities of the partnership with my highly athletic partners – my quarter horses.

While there is a multitude of ways to manage weight – all of them must involve 3 things:

1. Better diet
2. Exercise that fits your schedule, ability and proclivity
3. Lifestyle choices including: sleep, rest and stress management

 When people have lost, or are losing, their ability to control their weight, one, two or all three of these components conspire to layer on the unwanted pounds and put their health at risk.

 The issue can be viewed as a balanced mathematical equation:  Diet + Moderate Exercise + Lifestyle = Healthy.

When any one, two or all of the pieces of the left side of the equation is out of balance, the result is “not healthy”.

 Of course you’ve heard or seen this before, because it is an unshakable truth with a predictable outcome.

That truth is:  the body will begin to decay when the health equation is out of balance.   The symptoms of decay, and the path they take, are predictable, too.

1. At first, it is weight gain
2. Followed by self-medicating with stimulants like caffeine and/or mood enhancers like comfort food and/or alcohol;
3. Followed by over the counter medications;
4. Followed by prescriptions for a condition that can’t be resolved – only managed;
5. Followed by a search for the “magic bullet”
6. Followed by the ultimate symptom of an imbalanced health equation – premature death.

 Of course, there’s always the issue of bad luck to consider.

People experience accidents and/or infections.  Depending on your overall health, the severity of the injury or infection and the competency of your medical doctor, accidents or infections may be bumps in the road, or not.  If you want more details regarding the conflict between Germ Theory and Pleomorphism, we have prepared a paper on the subject for your review.

 Personally, I believe that weight gain is a sign of decaying health; that this particular sign, weight gain, is brought on by disregarding the health-equation. 

And, while simply putting the equation back to balance will change things going forward, it will do little to change the systemic dysfunction caused by the prolonged imbalance.

 Weight gain may have as many 5 factors:

1. Imbalance in calories (consuming more empty calories than you burn)
2. Imbalance in nutrition (satiety and/or cravings)
3. Dysfunction in daytime metabolism (sluggishness and or alertness) and/or nighttime metabolism (sleep and/or moodiness and anxiety)
4. Irregular bowel habits
5. Producing fat cells to wall off internal acids and other toxic substances

 The penchant for identifying one culprit for weight issues is the source for frustration, and often failure, for most people choosing to lose weight. 

Typically, being overweight or obese is a combination of several or all of the factors:  diet, moderate exercise and lifestyle.

 When you change the health equation you will change the situation, going forward.  And, when you support the dysfunctional bodily systems with high quality, well-crafted dietary supplements that support healing the dysfunction(s) of weight management, or health for that matter, the dysfunctions will begin to right themselves.

 The false paradigm – there is a quick fix to address the manifestations of a dysfunctional body – is an unfulfilling, and often risky, track to follow.

On the other hand, electing to balance your health equation will pay dividends.

 In the end, it’s your life – it’s your choice.  Choose wisely

 

 I, too, have been moved to make resolutions, occasionally, over the years.  For me, successful resolutions have always been practical and accomplished with simple changes in my daily routines. 

Less complicated resolutions have met with greater success.

 As it happens, we are creatures of habit.  For example, most people, who actually prepare meals, rely on the same 7 recipes, often preparing them on the same day.  I’m sure you’ve done it, too.  When I was a boy, you could set the calendar by what my mother served for supper.  “If it’s Wednesday, it’s chicken.”

 If you’re in the dinnertime rut, we offer you a free packet of information, available here, that links you to10 easy to prepare, great tasting, healthy dinnertime recipes to support weight loss.

One very helpful resolution is to eat a home cooked meal with your family – prepared together – every night.  It helps you make memories.  For many people, take out has taken the place of a home cooked meal.  Changing that would be my #1 priority … but I am digressing.

 Habits are the fount of all resolutions.  They are the admission that something, that you are doing, is producing an unwanted outcome and it needs to be changed.

 Such is often the case when people resolve to lose weight.

 People have watched their bodies grow past their wardrobe and have, therefore, resolved to shrink back to fitting into their clothes.

•  “I resolve to eat less” means you plan to starve yourself to lose weight.
• “I resolve to exercise more” means you have time in your schedule to go to the gym for an hour every other day to lose weight.
• “I resolve to eat better” means you will wake up 30 minutes sooner to prepare breakfast and abandon you lunch time haunts.

 If you can find the time, discipline or courage to follow through with these types of resolutions then more power to you.  For me, these resolutions would be complicated and therefore, likely unsuccessful.

The fact remains that most of you need to lose weight.  If you can muster up a virtue, patience, you just might be able to lose those extra pounds in time for spring – in a more practical manner.

   Is 2 to 3 months too long for help fitting into your spring wardrobe?

 Steps to Take:

 Go to our retail site, register for the comprehensive package of tips for losing weight at the bottom of the page.  They will be sent to you immediately and they are free.

1.  Read the comprehensive material in your packet.
2. Water-fast for 24 hours.  Add a teaspoon of lime juice to each of the 8 to10 – 8 ounce glasses of water you will be consuming to eliminate the residuals from all the holiday excesses.  It is easier if you start after your evening meal since you will be sleeping through most of the fast.
3. Follow the instructions for the 3 day diet that is include in you package of information.
4. For many people, dietary supplements are extremely helpful.  There are many from which to choose.  Pick one to help you.  (We offer a pretty nifty line of exclusive weight loss systems and proprietary supplements.  You night want to check them out when you are getting you packet.)
5. Follow the program for 90 days.

 Regardless of whether you have resolved to lose weight because you want to look good or you want feel great, it can be a resolution that you can keep if you have a little patience and some help.  You could be looking good and feeling great by spring – if you get started now.

 NOTE:  We have worked diligently to develop a family of proprietary weight loss supplements and exclusive weight loss systems.  Lots of people are expressing their satisfaction with the results.  We encourage you to consider one of the ThinRite™ options – you will be the next satisfied client or we will send your money back to you.  To sweeten the pot, we are offering you a 15% discount.  When you checkout, use coupon code:  thinrite2011 to receive your personal discount.

 Happy New Year

 

Introduction

Promoting and maintaining your healthy weight is challenging because losing weight is more complex than it seems.

 Today, we would like to report on the progress we’ve made with formulae for effective, affordable weight management.

Discussion

 The project started with an analysis of currently available weight loss products.

 The prevailing theory is: take stimulants (natural or medical), eat less and exercise more.

 We discovered that, for the most part, the currently available weight loss products relied on natural or medical stimulants to raise basal metabolic rate (the minimum amount of energy required to operate your body).

 Their theory is: higher basal metabolic rate will increase caloric demand.  By restricting dietary calories, the body will burn stored fat to fulfill its energy requirement.  The theory is augmented by adding exercise, as additional caloric demand, that will increase the possibilities for burning stored fat; which, as you know is calories stored in particular areas around the body.

 Eat less – exercise more is the commonly accepted modality by professionals and the public.  It has been the working method for losing weight for quite some time.  However, if the theory for weight loss was practical, being overweight or obese should have long-since disappeared as a public health issue.

 We discovered that the opposite is true:  the body, when faced with limited food intake, triggers a self-preservation response; reduces basal metabolism and, here is the kicker, converts more of the ingested food into fat; choosing to burn its muscle tissue to supply energy.

 In order to avoid this natural trigger for self-preservation, people should be eating more.  Unknowingly, the long-held belief, “to lose weight a person needs to eat less and exercise more”, may have been contributing to the epidemic of being overweight or obese.

 Furthermore, we discovered that the quality of the food is far more important than the quantity that is ingested.  There is another “trigger” that, when the nutritional needs of the body have been met, turns off the urge to eat.  Cravings and constant hunger is an indication that the body’s minimum nutritional requirements have not been met.

 Finally, the current products and modalities focus on waking metabolism.  There is an untapped metabolic opportunity to burn calories that occurs during sleep.  The body burns significant calories during sleep for repairing and replacing cells and tissue that have worn out or have been damaged during waking hours.

Conclusion

 Formulating a natural, nutraceutical weight loss program needed to be a multi-dimensional approach:

• Address the self-preservation trigger and restore daytime metabolism
• Address the trigger for cravings and hunger to reduce foraging
• Address the nutritional deficiencies with practical dietary changes or with an adjunct nutraceutical supplements to trigger satiation – the feeling of being full
• Support and promote nighttime metabolism

 The task has been challenging.  And, I’ll admit that the process took longer than we anticipated.  Today, we are confident that we have met and exceeded our objective:  to create a practical, affordable method that people can rely on to lose weight and keep it off once they’ve reach their goal.

 You are among the first to examine and, if you so choose, to use our formulae and programs.  You can see for yourself at www.thinrite.net

 If you are facing a weight issue, you are not alone.  Being overweight or obese is an epidemic in the industrialized world.  Whether you view it as an appearance issue or as a health issue, managing your weight should be your #1 priority.

 

Weight management is really quite simple; there are four ways to lose weight:

1. Reduce appetite to lower food consumption and caloric intake.
2. Increase energy expenditure by boosting metabolism.
3. Activate brown adipose tissue (brown fat), which burns white fat.
4. Regulate production of the fat producing hormones (that stores fat around our hips, thighs and waistline), address insulin resistance and support healthy blood sugar levels.

Although it may seem very simple, creating a formula to address these areas for weight loss isn’t easy. NUPRO used this multi functional approach, based on proven and evolving science, as the backbone for developing our formulation to support long lasting weight management success. NUPRO has combined specific herbs, amino acids, vitamins and minerals to produce a remarkable, proprietary formula to help you achieve beneficial weight loss.

Manage Appetite and Cravings
5 HTP, an extract of the herb Griffonia simplicifolia (a relative of Carob), supports serotonin levels in the brain. Serotonin levels, supported by 5-HTP, help create a feeling of satiety (fullness) and suppress appetite. MIT researchers studying 5-HTP and its appetite suppressing benefit said, “It’s conceivable this amino acid might be helpful in diminishing overeating.” This lowering of caloric intake encourages the body to use its own fat for energy.

Manage Energy and Metabolism
Green tea and Kola nut are proven to increase energy and metabolism. Research has shown Green tea extract produced a significant increase in total energy expenditure, approximately 4%. This corresponds to an increase in the thermogenic component of total energy expenditure, about 35%–43%.

Activate the Fat Burners – Brown Adipose Tissue
Green tea and Kola nut have been clinically shown to increase energy expenditure by boosting adrenaline and noradrenaline. Increases of noradrenaline activate brown adipose tissue (brown fat) that burns accumulated body fat. In the February 2000 American Journal of Obesity, authors concluded that oral administration of green tea extract stimulated thermogenesis and fat oxidation and thus has the potential to influence body weight and body composition favorably.

Regulate Fat Producing Hormones
The polyphenol in Green tea, EGCG (epigallocatechen 3-gallate), has been shown to decrease the hormone leptin which controls fat storage and appetite, decrease insulin which controls fat storage and increase the neurotransmitter noradrenaline, a metabolsim booster.

Chromium is important for anyone trying to lose weight because of its role in managing blood sugar and the over stimulation of insulin production. Chromium helps prevent the insulin-glycogen “sugar crash” that produces the hormone that stores fat around the hips, thighs and waistline. In addition to the mineral’s effects on carbohydrate (glucose) metabolism, insulin also influences the metabolism of fat and protein.