Health fitness

1.After you eat excess carbohydrates and/or too much protein, your blood glucose stays at a higher level longer because the glucose can’t make it into the cells of the muscles. This toxic level of glucose is like tar in the bloodstream clogging arteries, binding with proteins to form damaging AGEs (advanced glycation end-products) and causing inflammation. This high level of glucose causes triglycerides to go up, increasing your risk for coronary artery disease.

2.Starch and sugar get stored as fat. (Remember, starch is just glucose molecules hooked together in a long chain, and the digestive track breaks it down into glucose. So, a sugary diet and a starch diet are the same thing.) Because the muscle cells basically have a crust over top of them (called glycation), the cells aren’t getting glycogen and are therefore considered “resistant.” Additionally, since insulin stops the production of the fat-burning enzyme lipase, now you can’t even burn stored fat! You can workout all you want, but if you continue to eat oatmeal before your workouts, you will never be a fat-burner: you will remain a sugar-burner and you will continue to get fatter until eventually, those fat cells become resistant too.

3.If the above information isn’t bad enough, I have more bad news: insulin levels continue to stay at a higher level longer because the pancreas mistakenly believes, “if a little is not working, more is better.” This is not good. Insulin is very toxic at high levels, causing cellular damage, cancers, plaque buildup in the arteries (which is why diabetics are more likely to have heart disease) as well as many other inflammatory issues such as nerve damage and pain in the extremities. Starch and sugar destroy nerve tissue, causing tingling and retinopathy, which in turn cause glaucoma and cause you to lose your eyesight.

4.Sorry, but I have more bad news … Our cells become so damaged after a life of cereal and skim milk for breakfast that not only does insulin resistance block glucose from entering muscle cells, but the crust we have formed over our cells also blocks amino acids from entering. Amino acids are the building blocks for our muscles that are found in protein. So now, you can’t even maintain your muscles. If that isn’t bad enough, your muscles become cannibals. Because your body thinks there is not enough stored sugar in the cells, it sends signals to start to consume valuable muscles to make more glucose (sugar). You get fatter and you lose muscle.
5.Instead of feeling energetic after you eat, you feel tired, and you crave more carbohydrates. Since you now have less muscle, exercise is getting too darn difficult, and the sad cycle continues.
6.Now comes even more bad news: because of everything your body has been through up to this point, thyroid disorders can occur. When your liver becomes insulin resistant, it can’t convert thyroid hormone T4 into the T3, so you get those unexplained “thyroid problems” which continue to lower your energy and your metabolism.







 1.Lower your carbohydrates, moderate your protein intake, and increase healthy fats. Do it not only for yourself, but for your kids, too! It is important they don’t end up as insulin sensitive as we are.

2.Exercise. I’m not referring to exercise for calorie expenditure, but for hormone control. Even if you are simply walking after meals, your body will benefit. Moving has a major impact on improving insulin sensitivity since muscles burn your stored glycogen as fuel during and after your workout. People mistakenly think that they need to exercise to create a calorie deficit in order to lose weight. This is not how exercise helps with weight loss. Exercise builds muscle, and muscle builds mitochondria. It is in the mitochondria where fat is oxidized so you can keep your cells and your liver insulin sensitized.
“Healthy” metabolism is different than a “fast” metabolism. I was obviously referring to a fast metabolism, but a fast metabolism isn’t with a fast metabolism were the “unhealthy” people who died young. But today, they are the people who tell me that they do not have to diet or watch what they eat because they are thin and “healthy.” Really? You have no complaints about your health? No ailments that bother you? Just because you are thin does not give you permission to eat sugar and starch in abundance. The higher a person’s metabolism is, the more calories are needed to maintain weight. This most likely translates into that person consuming more food than someone with a slow metabolism. While eating more is not a health issue in and of itself, more often than not it means a person is eating less healthy foods than someone who has always struggled with weight. These unhealthy sugary and starchy foods increase risk for metabolic syndrome, and they also increase risk for cardiovascular issues, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, joint pain, and inflammation. So even if you are not overweight.