No I don't really care about your feelings, I'm talking about insulin sensitivity.
You know that hormone the prevents you from being poisoned by glucose and stores the excess as fat. What? You didn't read yesterdays blog? Go back now and do it!!! (find it here)
Right then, so if your body becomes insensitive to insulin or 'insulin resistant' your body will produce more and more insulin as it can't use the current levels properly.
This will lead to more fat storage of ingested glucose (not just sugar itself but the components of the food you eat as it breaks down). It will also prevent the stored fat from escaping which means that you can't use it for fuel, so you get hungry and you eat and it gets stored and it can't escape and you get hungry...
How does this resistance happen? Why do our bodies not just correct the issue? Well it would appear from research I've been reading that it's due to the type of food we're now eating. Our bodies have just not evolved to know how to use it as it's not been around for long enough.
What food you ask...easily digested carbohydrates (like bread and breakfast cereals), the things that many governments have been telling us to focus our diets on for years (based on some faulty research in the 1950's). These foods breakdown too quickly in the body and cause a spike in our insulin production that after many years of eating them can lead to the insensitivity issues.
So, that's the introduction done. Next I'll be talking about what you should eat to lose fat and avoid this problem.
You know that hormone the prevents you from being poisoned by glucose and stores the excess as fat. What? You didn't read yesterdays blog? Go back now and do it!!! (find it here)
Right then, so if your body becomes insensitive to insulin or 'insulin resistant' your body will produce more and more insulin as it can't use the current levels properly.
This will lead to more fat storage of ingested glucose (not just sugar itself but the components of the food you eat as it breaks down). It will also prevent the stored fat from escaping which means that you can't use it for fuel, so you get hungry and you eat and it gets stored and it can't escape and you get hungry...
How does this resistance happen? Why do our bodies not just correct the issue? Well it would appear from research I've been reading that it's due to the type of food we're now eating. Our bodies have just not evolved to know how to use it as it's not been around for long enough.
What food you ask...easily digested carbohydrates (like bread and breakfast cereals), the things that many governments have been telling us to focus our diets on for years (based on some faulty research in the 1950's). These foods breakdown too quickly in the body and cause a spike in our insulin production that after many years of eating them can lead to the insensitivity issues.
So, that's the introduction done. Next I'll be talking about what you should eat to lose fat and avoid this problem.
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