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Counting calories is essential to a diet. Have you ever stopped to think about the amount of carbohydrates in your diet.
Top nutritional scientists state that carbohydrates are one of the major culprits of bad health and obesity problems.
By decreasing the intake of carbohydrates in a diet, obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and hypertension can be reversed.
Fat is not the issue. If people would reduce or eliminate the consumption of sugary beverages, white bread, pasta, potatoes, white rice and sugary snacks, nearly all the issues of health would be eradicated in the area of weight, diabetes and metabolic diseases.
Carbohydrates including sugar change into sugar in the blood and the more refined the carbohydrates are the faster the change occurs.
Upon consuming white pasta, French fries or a slice of white bread, it quickly turns into sugar in the blood. To control blood sugar, the pancreas makes insulin, which sends sugar into cells, where it is kept as fuel in the form of glycogen.
Even in a totally healthy metabolism, the body becomes tired of processing high amounts of carbs, causing the body's response to insulin to diminish.
As cells become more resistant to instructions from insulin, the pancreas must produce more insulin to push the amount of glucose into the cells. When people become insulin resistant, carbohydrates become more of a challenge to the body.
When the pancreas becomes tired and cannot make insulin to maintain glucose in the blood, the development of diabetes occurs.
The first warning sign of insulin resistance is metabolic syndrome, a major warning that diabetes and the possibility for heart disease is near. The syndrome is thought to occur when people have three or more of the following:
- high blood triglycerides (more than 150 mg)
- high blood pressure (over 135/85)
- central obesity (a waist circumference in men of more than 40 inches and in women, more than 35 inches)
- low HDL cholesterol (under 40 in men, under 50 in women)
- or elevated fasting glucose.
The answer is to follow the FREE Manna Low GI Menu Plans and Recipes and exercise.
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