In an increasingly consumer-friendly world, where the availability of highly processed products is at hand, there are more and more people with overweight and obesity. No time to prepare a meal, and often even eating it causes that busy people reach for products that have a positive effect on the deposition of adipose tissue. The worst thing is that this problem also affects children. Why is this happening?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Sugars – the importance of processes in the body
- What is insulin resistance?
- How fat burning occurs
- Sugars – the importance of processes in the body
Two hormones insulin and glucagon are responsible for storing and burning fat in the body. Insulin is a hormone that controls blood sugar levels, making sure that it is not too much in it. Glucagon has an antagonistic effect to insulin. When there is too little glucose in the blood, glucagon is supposed to provide it.
What relationship with these hormones has highly processed foods? Very big. Fast food, sweets, some fruits are products with a high glycemic index. The glycemic index is an indicator of the effect of a given product on the level of sugar in the blood within 2-3 hours after ingestion. Eating a high GI product causes a sharp increase in blood sugar levels, which in turn is a signal for insulin to lower this level.
Insulin removes glucose from the blood mainly to the liver and skeletal muscle, and if the body is unable to use it, it is stored in the form of triglycerides (TG) in adipose tissue. The problem starts here. The amount of simple sugars in the diet is what our body will look like. If there are too many of them, and additionally physical activity is negligible, sugars will be transformed into triglycerides and stored in the form of adipose tissue.
If the daily menu consists mainly of simple carbohydrates, that is white bread, white pasta, white rice, etc., the blood glucose levels will increase rapidly, and sudden outbursts of insulin will immediately remove it from the bloodstream. Consequently, it will not be in the brain tissue for which it is a nutrient. If the brain has nothing to derive from it, it gives a signal that it needs sugar – which causes wolf hunger.
As a result, the organism is overfeeding and, as a consequence, it accumulates adipose tissue. The more the level of sugar is higher than the norm in the body, the more often the standard of insulin level in the blood is exceeded. Such conditions affect the development of overweight, atherosclerosis and the risk of heart disease. Permanently managing such a diet and lack of movement after some time lead to insulin resistance, and later, type II diabetes develops.
- What is insulin resistance?
Normal blood sugar is controlled by insulin. Constant reproaches mean that the body gets used to its often high level. Therefore, it becomes more resistant to its operation. This leads to a condition in which a high level of insulin in the blood does not lower the level of sugar contained in it.
This is a pre-diabetic condition. High levels of insulin in the blood can lead to abdominal obesity, overweight, hypertension, and high levels of blood lipids. Their presence in turn may affect the development of cardiovascular and cancer diseases. Insulin also affects the level of cortisol, called the stress hormone, which in turn affects the development of inflammation.
- How fat burning occurs
The previously mentioned glucagon is responsible for the processes related to the breakdown of adipose tissue. Its role is to break down fat, to release sugars from triglycerides. When is glucagon released?
When your blood sugar level drops to a very low level. Therefore, in order to achieve the effects of a slimming diet, it should be remembered that not the quantity but quality of food is important. First of all, you need to control the addiction to sugar, which forces the body into a number of troubles.
Having diet plans in mind, let’s analyze your eating habits, let’s think about what we can start with. What will be the easiest to give up, of which the most difficult – and let us implement our observations.
Let’s just remember one used diet that promises windshield effects, without changing your eating habits will not do anything because the months of struggle with kilograms, yourself, (because you often eat what you need on a diet, and you do not want to) will cause that when you go to celebrate a shapely figure, you will finally go to a pastry shop or pizzeria.
It will stay that way later, and the kilograms will come back faster than you expect. Take care of yourself by controlling your blood sugar on an empty stomach and after eating and remember that too high or too low blood sugar levels can be dangerous for your health. Therefore, make sure that the standards are maintained.
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