Though diets and preferences vary throughout India, most people follow a primarily plant-based diet. In a nutshell, losing weight with insulin resistance is difficult because cells are starved of fuel when they're unable to absorb sugar and nutrients from the blood. This leads to metabolic changes and disturbed appetite regulation, which only adds to your weight loss woes. Ghrelin is a 'hunger hormone' that stimulates appetite, increases food intake and promotes fat storage. Research has found that insulin resistance is linked to decreased plasma levels of active ghrelin and increased belly fat.
My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind. But the closest I ever came as an adult to realizing that idyll was in the Ikea cafeteria, when my then-husband and I were furnishing our house and we always made time to eat Swedish meatballs with lingonberries, savory little nuggets with Dr. Seuss-like fruit—a Nordic mini-vacation.
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