Weight Loss Tip of the Day: Difference of Sugar from fruit and candy When sugar circulating in your bloodstream, it doesn’t matter whether it came from a Red Delicious or a marshmallow Peep; It’s treated the exact same way: With the release of insulin, the hormone in charge of collecting sugar from the blood and depositing to your muscles, organs and fat stores—a wholly necessary process for pretty much every function in the body. But before sugar hits your veins, when it’s still hanging out in your gut, the source of those carbs matters a lot. The fiber in fruits and vegetables optimize your metabolism by slowing the sugar’s entry into the bloodstream. “With candy, it rushes in all at once, the insulin release is higher, and more sugar gets stuffed in fat stores.” When high blood sugar becomes chronic—that’s when you can be classified as diabetic or pre-diabetic—fat burning starts to shut down, Berardi says, and your body’s proteins start to gunk up with extra sugar, potentially leading to accelerated aging, hardening arteries, stiff muscle fascia and more. Is it technically possible to achieve chronically high blood sugar via too much citrus? Yes. But candy bars are a lot more efficient.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 20:18:25 +0000
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