Maybe you are even still doing it today. But I bet you had no idea the damage this does to your body’ s ability to burn your existing fat reserves. The more we put sugar into our blood, the harder the pancreas needs to work to pump out enough insulin to get the clean up the excess glucose.
When we constantly load our plates with carbohydrates( and simple carbs in particular) insulin levels slowly rise in the body. In response, the fat cells begin to ignore the ever-present insulin and only begin doing their job again( of removing sugar from the blood) when the insulin level rises even more. So the pancreas puts out even more insulin as time goes by. The result is a steady building of insulin resistance by the cells, which can lead to diabetes and other chronic illnesses.
The flip side of increased insulin production and( eventual) insulin resistance is a corresponding drop in glucogon levels. Glucogon is the hormone that does the exact opposite of what insulin does— it encourages fat cells to give up their fat content for the production of energy.
This is the fat burning process that we want to encourage when the time comes to lose some weight. But if insulin levels are high, then glucogon is under-produced by the body, even when blood sugar might be at dangerously low levels. This inability to keep blood sugar at a steady level is a symptom of diabetes, and can lead to a blood sugar crash that can put the individual’ s life in jeopardy.
Some physicians claim that it is the prevalence of insulin resistance in the developed world that is responsible for most chronic diseases, like cardiovascular disease, stroke, metabolic disorders including type-I and type-II diabetes, and even dementia in later life.
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