Tuesday fitness fun fact
A wise, old man (and very healthy old man I might add) once said, "If it has a bar code on it, don't eat it." Extreme, YES but it's always a better idea to focus your eating with fresh meats, fruits and veggies vs. canned, processed foods.
The Fat ****tail: The science behind processed food
By Dr. Robert J. Moore
What do you get when you mix sugar, salt and fat? Answer: a ****tail that promotes fat production and storage.
If you really want to sabotage your weight-loss and weight-maintenance efforts, just make sure that your meals contain simple carbohydrates and salt and fat. Eating the three together is like mixing gin, beer and wine during a night on the town. The combination does far more damage than any one alone, and a fat hangover lasts much longer than an alcohol hangover.
While fat by itself is an obvious waist expander, adding salt and sugar will increase the release of the storage hormone insulin. And consuming a Fat ****tail™, like having one drink, can leave you wanting more.
Here’s why: The pure sugar found in foods like candy, cake, crackers, chips, ice cream and doughnuts gives your body a 100 percent shot of simple carbohydrates. To add insult to insulin, most of the processed products that contain the simple carbs also contain salt or sodium. When salt and sugar enter your system together, they turn on a specialized protein in the intestines that literally pumps more sugar into the bloodstream, even if your bloodstream contains as much sugar as it can normally handle from a large meal or sweet dessert.
When this happens, the body responds as if you ate more carbs than you really did and releases more insulin. This means everything you ate–not just the sugar and salt, but also the extra protein, fat and other carbs–will be more easily stored as fat.
And if that is not bad enough, a high level of insulin also temporarily disables the body’s fat-burning capabilities. In biochemical terms, the high levels of insulin being forced into the bloodstream shut down the very enzyme that works to break down fat so the body can burn it. In the end, the fat from your meal or any extra calories still hanging around from an earlier meal are then easily escorted into your fat cells. The result: fat storage is maximized–the perfect Fat ****tail!
The Fat ****tail: The science behind processed food
By Dr. Robert J. Moore
What do you get when you mix sugar, salt and fat? Answer: a ****tail that promotes fat production and storage.
If you really want to sabotage your weight-loss and weight-maintenance efforts, just make sure that your meals contain simple carbohydrates and salt and fat. Eating the three together is like mixing gin, beer and wine during a night on the town. The combination does far more damage than any one alone, and a fat hangover lasts much longer than an alcohol hangover.
While fat by itself is an obvious waist expander, adding salt and sugar will increase the release of the storage hormone insulin. And consuming a Fat ****tail™, like having one drink, can leave you wanting more.
Here’s why: The pure sugar found in foods like candy, cake, crackers, chips, ice cream and doughnuts gives your body a 100 percent shot of simple carbohydrates. To add insult to insulin, most of the processed products that contain the simple carbs also contain salt or sodium. When salt and sugar enter your system together, they turn on a specialized protein in the intestines that literally pumps more sugar into the bloodstream, even if your bloodstream contains as much sugar as it can normally handle from a large meal or sweet dessert.
When this happens, the body responds as if you ate more carbs than you really did and releases more insulin. This means everything you ate–not just the sugar and salt, but also the extra protein, fat and other carbs–will be more easily stored as fat.
And if that is not bad enough, a high level of insulin also temporarily disables the body’s fat-burning capabilities. In biochemical terms, the high levels of insulin being forced into the bloodstream shut down the very enzyme that works to break down fat so the body can burn it. In the end, the fat from your meal or any extra calories still hanging around from an earlier meal are then easily escorted into your fat cells. The result: fat storage is maximized–the perfect Fat ****tail!
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