|
|
|
|
|
 Tell me why?
A great sugary snack feels
heavenly but can you eat just one cookie, or do you keep eating "just one more"
till the whole bar has gone? Your body converts the carbohydrate in your diet into the
fuel (glucose).Your muscles and brain require glucose for energy. Your brain depends
exclusively on a steady supply of glucose from the blood. That’s how blood sugar
level affects your mood and behaviour!
Sugar Craving!
 1. You eat a large sugary snack. A high carbohydrate
(usually sugar diet).
2. Food enters your liver and it breaks down into Glucose.
3. Glucose enters the bloodstream rapidly and Increases the blood sugar
level.
4. High Blood sugar level leads to release of insulin from the pancreas.
5. Insulin then aids in the uptake of Glucose & amino acids into
muscle and leaves tryptophan (an amino acid) circulating in the blood.
6. Tryptophan crosses the blood-brain barrier region and easily enters
the brain to be transformed to serotonin.
7. The increase in serotonin release by the dietary creates a good mood.
Short
term:
two hours later the blood sugar level can fall too low, because there
is no further glucose entering the blood. So the body tries by various means to bring the
blood sugar level back up again. It creates a craving for more carbohydrate. So you eat
perhaps another sugary snack. Up goes your calorie intake, up goes your weight, and you
have set yourself up for more cravings in a few more hours time.
 Long term: People then
become reliant on this carbohydrate cravings to feel better. This tendency to use certain
foods as though they were drugs is a frequent cause of weight gain.
Sugars
in your Food Simple carbohydrates (sugars) are made up of one or two sugar molecules and include naturally
as well as the more processed sugars like table sugar. They
are easily converted to blood glucose in the liver and can enter the bloodstream very soon
after being eaten. This rapidly rises your blood sugar level.
Complex
carbohydrates (whole grains) are long chains of sugar molecules. They are digested more
slowly than simple sugars resulting glucose from their digestion is released at a slower
rate into the blood stream resulting in a steadier level of blood glucose.
Diabetes |
 |
 |
Obesity
1. Sugar cravings increase the high calorie diet and cause obesity.
2. High sugar diet causes the liver to promote fat deposition.
3. High insulin in the bloodstream causes more fat deposition.
4. Muscle: Due to excess glucose there is continuous fat accumulation
which is aggravated by the sedentary lifestyle.
|
|
