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Sugar makes you fat and fat free food isn’t really free of fat.
Sugar isn’t inherently evil. Your body uses sugar to survive, and burns sugar to provide you with the energy necessary for life. Many truly healthy foods are actually broken down to sugar in the body – through the conversion of long and complex sugars called polysaccharides into short and simple sugars called monosaccharides, such as glucose. In additions to the breakdown products of fat and protein, glucose is a great energy source for your body.
The energy stored in our food is measured in terms of calories. Technically, one calorie is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). The Calorie measure used commonly to discuss the energy content of food is actually a kilocalorie or 1000 real calories. For this reason, the Calorie in food is often written with a capital C. Different foods can be used by the body to produce different amounts of energy.
However, there are two ways that sugar can sabotage your body and cause fat storage. Excess glucose is the first problem, and it involves a very simple concept. Anytime you have filled your body with more fuel than it actually needs (and this is very easy to do when eating foods with high sugar content), your liver’s sugar storage capacity is exceeded. When the liver is maximally full, the excess sugar is converted by the liver into fatty acids (that’s right – fat!) and returned to the bloodstream, where is taken throughout your body and stored (that’s right – as fat!) wherever you tend to store adipose fat cells, including, but not limited to, the popular regions of the stomach, hips, butt, and breasts.
Carbohydrate e.g. sugar contains less than 4 calories, whilst fat contains 9 calories per gram. This means 5 g sugar in a product has about 20 calories, whilst 5 g fat has 45 calories. Therefore a good way to decrease the calories in your food is to lower the amounts of fat. But just because a food is labelled fat-free, it doesn´t mean it is calorie-free. Indeed, most fat-free foods still provide a lot of calories from carbohydrates and proteins.
Once these regions are full of adipose tissue, the fatty acids begin to spill over into your organs, like the heart, liver, and kidneys. This reduces organ ability, raises blood pressure, decreases metabolism, and weakens the immune system.
Insulin is a major hormone in the body, and is released in high levels anytime you ingest what would be considered a “simple” carbohydrate, which would include, but not be limited to: fruit juice, white bread, most “wheat” bread (basically white bread with a little extra fiber), white rice, potato, wafers, waffles, corn chips, cornflakes, cake, jelly , sugary drinks, beer, and anything that has high fructose. when the insulin levels are disturbed or high First, the body’s fat burning process is shut down so that the sugar that has just been ingested can be immediately used for energy. Then, insulin takes all that sugar and puts it into your muscles. , that does not mean except those body builders so called Iron man ,athletes and 8000- calories-per-day exercisers .As soon as the muscles energy stores are full, the excess sugars are converted to fat and, the fatty acids released from the liver, stored as adipose tissue on our waistline.
After the blood sugar has been reduced by going into the muscles or being converted to fat in the liver, the feedback mechanism that tells the body to stop producing insulin is slightly delayed, so blood sugar levels fall even lower, below normal measurements. This causes an immediate increase in appetite, which is usually remedied by eating more food, the production of a stress hormone called cortisol. Cortisol triggers the release of stored sugar from the liver to bring blood sugar levels, which combined with the meal you eat from your appetite increase, begins the entire “fat storage.
The excessive cortisol that accumulates in the body eventually disturbs your hormonal system and results in other issues, including a further decrease in metabolism, obesity, depression, allergies, immune weakness, chronic fatigue syndrome and other serious side effects.
We must also remember that the human body needs a certain amount of oils for good health; because they contain fat soluble vitamins and nutritionally essential fatty acids.
Fats can be either saturated or unsaturated (which includes mono-unsaturated and polyunsaturated). Most Saturated fats should be reduced because they raise blood cholesterol. Cholesterol is a fat-like substance found only in animal foods. Excess cholesterol furs up arteries and is linked to heart disease and strokes.
Monounsaturated fats, found in abundance in olive oil and peanut oil, appear to protect against heart disease because they replace saturated fats in the diet.
Polyunsaturated fats can be further divided into the omega-6 and the omega-3 .Which has a positive impact on heart health and an important role in brain and eye function. Oily fish such as salmon, and mackerel are a good source of omega-3s, which are also found in walnuts and some oils like soybean and rapeseed.
Here is a list of carbohydrates do not trigger such a strong insulin response and instead provide long-term, stabilized energy: apples, oranges, pears, plums, grapes, bananas (not overly ripened), grapefruit, oatmeal, brown rice, bran cereal, barley, and other whole grains, beans, peas (especially chick and black-eyed), lentils, whole corn, sweet potatoes, yams, milk, yogurt (preferably low-fat or fat-free) and soy. Stay away from processed and packaged foods as much as possible, because they are highly likely to include artificial sweeteners (which basically have a similar effect as sugar), as well as colour, and preservatives refined sugars. Keep your eye out for fake names for sugar (ingredients) that include sucrose, maltose, dextrose, fructose, galactose, glucose, arabinose, ribose, xylose, deoxyribose, lactose, Even “healthy” juice and many health food products will need to be avoided if they contain high levels of sugar.
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Jagdish Naik (HR) at AMP CLINIC