not sure I've read research that agrees with 100% of all that about eating a high fat diet making for a body that is better at burning fat...
Eating a balanced diet is very important and goes a long way towards heading a lot of problems off before they get a chance to start. It is true about foods that are low on the glycemic index tending to cause your blood sugar from making a rapid drop. The rapid drop, or “crash”, is directly related to causing a hunger response, whether you are actually hungry or not.
It’s easy to “over dose” on carbs because they are virtually every where. For example if you eat a box of fat free cookies, the trace amounts of fat you did eat will not be an issue, the 1500 calories in carbohydrates will be! The energy not used by your body will be converted into fat for that special rainy day our bodies have been designed to prepare for. This over consumption is a serious problem. Once the energy is stored as fat getting it out to use is involved process. I’ll liken it to this; if burning sugars (simple carbs) is like burning gasoline, then burning Complex carbs is like burning news papers, burning alcohol and protein calories would be like burning denim pants, and burning fat is like burning wet denim. It’s slow and cumbersome, and conditions need to be right…
Belwo you can see how fat has gotten such a bad rap;
Fat: 1 gram = 9 calories Protein: 1 gram = 4 calories Carbohydrates: 1 gram = 4 calories Alcohol: 1 gram = 7 calories.
So the next time you are out eating thick crust pizza with bread sticks and washing it down with a few beers. You will no doubt have taken your fat gram intake for the day past the limit, but you will take on many excess calories in carbohydrates, and alcohol, that will probably exceed your goals for the day as well – the bad part with those calories is there will be virtually no nutitioanl value associated with the calories taken in form the beers, and bread sticks…
Okay – it’s time to go to bed
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