Consider this:
We, as a nation have been steadily decreasing our consumption of fats and cholesterol, yet the incidence of obesity, disease and death from lifestyle diseases have been increasing. How is this so, the experts have told as for decades the best way to eat is low fat but we are still getting faatter and sicker. The answer ..................................................once again points out to carbohydrates and sugar.
Whilst foods are lower in fat they are much higher in sugar. Since the turn of the 20th century sugar consumption has increased 150%. Sugar become a cheap preservative, it has become an addition to just about all processed foods, fat has been reduced and sugar has been increased. So if the fat is taken out why are we still getting fatter?
There are 2 main reasons:
The first is quite simple, filling your body with more fuel than it actually needs. This is done easily with high sugar foods, basically your livers sugar storage capacity has been exceeded. When the liver is maximumally full the excess sugar is converted into fat and returned to the bloodstream to be stored as fat!!
The 2nd reason is that the sugar will cause excess insulin. Insulin which is a required hormone in the body (a major hormone at that) is released when you ingest carbohydrates, especially simple carbs that are high in sugar (e.g. fruit juice, white bread, white rice, chips, cereals, desserts, sweets, sodas etc). Two actions occur when the insulin levels are spiked. 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. The insulin takes all that sugar and puts it into your
muscles. The muscles can only take so much though and when muscle energy stores are full, the excess sugars are again converted into fat, just like the fat released from the liver, it is stored as fat in the body.
The low fat - high carb diet is slowly killing us, do not use diet or low fat products with out checking the sugar content. This is suicide to consume high sugar foods. Good chance any processed food has high sugar, no wonder we are struggling, people start their day with a cereal.............bam sugar overload straight away. Try starting day with a protein shake or eggs, say buy to cereals and toasts.
And another thing, food products that use artificial sweetners are just a toxic, artificial sweetners are not a good alternative. More on that later!!!