Body fat

WHY DO WE CREATE SURPLUS BODY FAT?

Read on the truth will be revealed'

When we eat any carbohydrate our bodies have to convert these into sugar before we can utilise any of these carbohydrates.

Our body is adept at doing this because carbohydrates have now become a major source of our food.

Now let us see what happens after having converted these carbohydrates into sugar.

We need to understand how the body uses sugar.

As most of us already know we use sugar for energy and the truth is because of the amount of carbohydrates and sugar we consume we finish up having a surplus of sugars.

( Did you know the average daily amount of sugar consumed is nearly half a pound)? Then we also have a huge amount of sugar being produced from the carbohydrates we eat.

Where is all this leading us?

Well, our bodies have an age old mechanism to deal with this over abundance sugar, it produces a hormone called Insulin.

One of the functions of insulin is to keep your blood sugar levels regulated, but more importantly the thing we need to understand is, IT ALSO ACTS AS A STORAGE FUNCTION.

When we have a surplus of sugar which our bodies don't need for energy, it goes into this storage function.

How does it do this? IT CONVERTS ANY SURPLUS SUGAR INTO FAT!!!

Fat was originally our bodies survival mechanism against hard times, but luckily for us, bad survival times in the form of food shortages seldom happen. SO WE JUST BUILD UP FAT.

There is more to it than this, however herein lies the basis of our fat problems.

Believe it or not, there is practically none of our modern foods that do not have not some form of sugar added to them.

Adding some form of sugar is one of the cheapest methods of flavour enhancement available to food manufacturers. This makes their products more enticing because we have with few exceptions all developed a sweet tooth addiction.

Do you still wonder why we have a modern weight loss difficulty?

No its not the fat we eat, it's the fat we individually create due to this mechanism.

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