I tire of people continually saying that certain foods are responsible for obesity and those foods need to be completely avoided.
There's is zero room to deny that carbohydrates lead to an increase in blood glucose levels which stimulates insulin production. There is also no room to argue that your body can metabolize adipose tissue while insulin levels are elevated. And again, there's no room to argue against the fact that falling blood glucose levels stimulate hunger. All of that means eating carbohydrates prevents your body from metabolizing adipose tissue and creates a cycle of hunger that leads countless people to overeat. When you eat more carbohydrates than you need for energy your liver turns it into fat. Your elevated insulin levels prevent you from burning that fat. Boom. You're fat.
Perhaps your being tired is a sign that you it's time educate yourself about human metabolism and metabolic disease rather than parroting what others have told you.
Even then, it's not just obesity. Obesity is just one effect of eating carbohydrates. There are a lot of disorders that are caused by prolonged elevated insulin.
it's time educate yourself about human metabolism and metabolic disease
I'm pretty well-educated, and I do know about carbohydrates in the diet and also quite a bit about nutrition in general. Too much of anything is not good for you. I am not advocating for "prolonged elevated insulin." But also, bread is not poison.
If you advocate eating anything that has any significant amount of carbohydrates, including bread, on a regular basis, you ARE advocating for prolonged elevated insulin. That's what happens when you eat carbohydrates multiple times a day. That's why obesity and type II diabetes skyrocketed starting in 1980 when the dietary guidelines to eat more "healthy" (no such thing) carbs like whole grains.
"When you eat more carbohydrates than you need for energy your liver turns it into fat. " If you eat more of anything than you need for energy your liver turns it into fat. Caloric intake balanced to exercise is more responsible for weight than the type of calories.
on a regular basis
What is a "regular basis?" Eating a single slice of bread once per year would be a regular basis but I dont think that in itself would cause diabetes. I once attended a speech by a health expert (he was the Health Officer for the state of California at that time but that was years ago and he was soon fired): --he opined that the explosion in obesity and diabetes in the United States could largely be attributed to the federal subsidies encouraging fructose (corn) sweetener, which became a replacement for sucrose (cane and beet sugars) and is now included in most packaged foods including nearly all soft drinks in the United States.
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