Trying to LOSE WEIGHT? Here’s a tip... if it’s
white, don’t eat it!
(All wheat products, bananas, breads, rice, sugar, and potatoes.)
Research has shown that these foods almost triple your blood
sugar rise in proportion to how many calories they carry...
nobody knows why for sure but it’s clear that foods
high in carbohydrates cause your pancreas to increase your
insulin production.
The reason we “pack fat” is insulin. Insulin is
commonly thought of as “what's missing” from a
person with diabetes. But it’s more than that. Besides
controlling the level of blood sugar in your body, it causes
you to be hungry!
It sends you searching through your house at night for chocolate
and cookies! It turns on the fat storing machine in the fat
cells of your body and further, blocks those fat cells from
releasing their stored fat.
The result is that as you eat and exercise, your body can’t
convert the stored fat to sugar to burn for energy, which
is the desired result of both eating and exercise... which
makes you want to eat more after the effects of your workout
pass. It’s a vicious cycle!
One powerful way of blocking the effect of carbohydrates and
the rise of insulin is to put high quality proteins into your
metabolic system in front of everything you eat. Even if you’re
eating wedding cake, try to take in some protein before you
eat it... a piece of lean beef or a soft boiled egg. The protein
turns on the metabolic processes in the cells to burn the
blood sugar faster and therefore stop the insulin rise.
90% of what we eat has to be turned into sugar to be passed
through the energy burning systems of the body. Controlling
insulin is not just about stopping sugar intake.
You must understand that many foods, especially the white
ones, get turned into sugar. It’s easy to lose track
of this fact. Watch those carbs! They are the precursor to
the production of sugar in your body which over-stimulates
insulin and it ’s the insulin that “packs the
fat ” on you.
People commonly think that bananas are healthy food because
they provide potassium. These days, bananas are mostly picked
green and shipped, and the potassium content isn’t nearly
what it used to be. The potassium benefit really doesn’t
outweigh the negative effects of the high sugar content.
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