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Reduce Sugars to Lose Weight
"Reducing weight using some very simple principles"
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For several million years, humans
existed on a diet of animals and vegetation. It was only with the
advent of agriculture a mere 10,000 years ago - a fraction of a
second in evolutionary time - that humans began ingesting large
amounts of sugar and starch in the form of grains (and potatoes)
into their diets. Indeed, 99.99% of our genes were formed before
the advent of agriculture; in biological terms, our bodies are
still those of hunter-gatherers.
While the human shift to agriculture produced indisputable gains
for man - modern civilization is based on this epoch - societies
where the transition from a primarily meat/vegetation diet to one
high in cereals show a reduced lifespan and stature, increases in
infant mortality and infectious disease, and higher nutritional
deficiencies.
Contemporary humans have not suddenly evolved mechanisms to
incorporate the high carbohydrates from starch- and sugar-rich
foods into their diet. In short, we are consuming far too much
bread, cereal, pasta, corn (a grain, not a vegetable), rice,
potatoes and Little Debbie snack cakes, with very grave
consequences to our health. Making matters worse, most of these
carbohydrates we consume come in the form of processed food.
That 65% of Americans are overweight, and 27% clinically obese, in
a nation addicted to sesame seed buns for that hamburger, with a
side of French fries and a Coke, is no coincidence. It is not the
fat in the foods we eat but, far more, the excess carbohydrates
from our starch- and sugar-loaded diet that is making people fat
and unhealthy, and leading to epidemic levels of a host of
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If you are experiencing any of the
following symptoms, chances are very good that the excess
carbohydrates in your body are, in part or whole, to blame:
We all need a certain amount of
carbohydrates, of course, but, through our addiction to grains,
potatoes, sweets and other starchy and sugary foods, we are
consuming far too many. The body's storage capacity for
carbohydrates is quite limited, though, so here's what happens to
all the excess: they are converted, via insulin, into fat and
stored in the adipose, or fatty, tissue.
Any meal or snack high in carbohydrates generates a rapid rise in
blood glucose. To adjust for this rise, the pancreas secretes the
hormone insulin into the bloodstream, which lowers the glucose.
Insulin is, though, essentially a storage hormone, evolved over
those millions of years of humans prior to the agricultural age,
to store the excess calories from carbohydrates in the form of fat
in case of famine.
Insulin, stimulated by the excess carbohydrates in our
overabundant consumption of grains, starches and sweets, is
responsible for all those bulging stomachs and fat rolls in thighs
and chins.
Even worse, high insulin levels suppress two other important
hormones - glucagons and growth hormones - that are responsible
for burning fat and sugar and promoting muscle development,
respectively. So insulin from excess carbohydrates promotes fat,
and then wards off the body's ability to lose that fat.
Excess weight and obesity lead to heart disease and a wide variety
of other diseases. But the ill effect of grains and sugars does
not end there. They suppress the immune system, contributing to
allergies, and they are responsible for a host of digestive
disorders. They contribute to depression, and their excess
consumption is, in fact, associated with many of the chronic
diseases in our nation, such as cancer and diabetes.
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