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.
If you eat more of anything than you need for energy your liver turns it into fat.
Yes, but without insulin the fat can't be deposited in your fat cells. Insulin is required to deposit fat. Without an insulin response there is no mechanism for fat deposition. If you disagree, please explain the metabolic pathway.
As a side note, your body can only use about 5g of carbohydrates at any given time. The rest is guaranteed to be converted to triglycerides by the liver and deposited as adipose tissue by insulin. That's not even the worst effect of carbohydrates. What's worse is that they drive the formation of small dense LDL cholesterol and glycation of ApoB-100 on those LDL particles, a process which drives atherosclerosis. A glycated ApoB-100 causes cholesterol receptors in the liver to no longer be able to recognize LDL, so it builds up in the blood.
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.
What is a "regular basis?"
A regular part of your diet that you eat on a daily basis.
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.
There's no biological basis for this hypothesis. Sucrose (table sugar) is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. HCFS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose. There's no way 5% changed the course of humanity.
What did change, and you can see it in charts of macronutrient consumption, is that people started cutting out fat and replacing it with vegetable oils and carbohydrates.
Ermighard !! You're so much smarter than me !!! But anyway here is the way it was explained to me by Dr. Jackson:
Sucrose (table sugar) is 50% glucose and 50% fructose.
Sucrose is a disaccharide, also known as a "double sugar," typically derived from cane or beets. Each molecule of sucrose is equivalent to one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose, however they are chemically bonded together at the molecular level, which is what gives sucrose its own definition as a sugar. When eaten, each molecule of sucrose must be broken down by the acids and enzymes in the digestive tract, resulting ultimately in pure glucose, which is what the body utilizes to transport the nutrition to each of its cells.
HCFS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose.
I think you are referring to HFCS, or High Fructose Corn Syrup. (I looked up HCFS and it stands for Hardcore Foot Sex). Yes. corn syrup actually contains pure 100% glucose, but enzymes are added to it which digest some of the glucose and convert it into fructose, which provides a sweeter flavor. The actual ratio of glucose to fructose may vary. Both of these, however, are separate simple sugars which are not chemically bonded together and hence are more directly absorbed into the body during the digestive process.
Consuming an excessive amount of sucrose will signal the brain to give the feeling that you have had "too many sweets," as the digestive juices are used up in the breakdown of each sugar molecule, and the body subsequently needs to produce more.
Consumption of simple sugars do not signal the brain in the same way, as they are absorbed more directly: --thus, people will readily overconsume the soft drinks and other foods that contain HFCS, which may result in obesity and/or diabetes.
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