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The Sugar Challenge
FACT: Christmas and Easter would be the greatest challenge to us all, to avoid sugar.
But why would you want to avoid it when it tastes so damn good?!?
Because sugar is not a natural food, and has no place in your lifestyle. An addiction to sugar is as challenging to break as many other addictions, and is equally as insidious.
Insidious - meaning: proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects.
Over the next few days I'll add context to this claim, so you can take a look at your own habits and perhaps even a New Years Resolution...
Starting with the Science - what is it? Sugar is 'any' of the class of soluble, crystalline, typically sweet-tasting carbohydrates found in living tissues and presents in many forms, eg glucose and sucrose.
I asked AI 'How is sugar different to sweeteners?
Answer: sweeteners are diverse alternatives, including nutritive sweeteners (less energy, like sugar alcohols) and intense sweeteners (artificial or plant-derived like stevia, monk fruit, aspartame), offering intense sweetness with few to zero calories, differing in metabolism, sweetness level, and health impacts, with WHO advising caution on non-sugar sweeteners for weight control. END QUOTE
So, there are two types of sugars - natural and artificial or synthetic, and you ask 'what's the big deal?'
There are many big deals! The primary one being the distortion we are taught, that sugar runs in our veins, may cause diabetes, and we use it for energy.
Remember the the Mars Bar advertising: A Mars a day helps you work rest and play...
In truth, the 'sugar' in our veins is actually glucose, and the medical industry changed it to 'blood sugar', and then left off the 'blood'. Thereby making it sound like sugar in the blood is normal. IT IS NOT!
Why not? Because 'Glucose' (not sugar) fuels metabolic processes and provides the energy your cells need. It comes from the food (including drinks) you put in your stomach. Foods that have a high Glycemic Index (GI) convert almost instantly to glucose and your pancreas sends out insulin to grab it and take it to where it's needed in the body. When there is too much glucose available, the pancreas tells the insulin to take it to the fat reserves, and lock it into storage.
The balancing process occurs when there is no glucose in the blood stream, happens when the pancreas releases glucagon. This is the only substance that can unlock sugar fat reserves.
BUT - when you keep feeding your stomach sweets and carbohydrates all day, the pancreas keeps sending out insulin, and eventually it stops producing glucagon. It's no longer needed. This imbalance has a name, and a remedy, but is also linked to an addiction...
Let's just leave this here for the moment. Tomorrow we come back and go a little deeper into the flow on effects of an imbalanced body, one that has a full time supply of insulin and glucose and no need for glucagon.
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