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.
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.
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