o/t carbohydrates- good fuels IF YOU BURN THEM

good article on carbohydrate metabolism by Udo Erasmus, follow link for complete text:

http://www.udoerasmus.com/articles/udo/from_fat_to_fit.htm


"...Sweets and starches have a long shelf life, which makes manufacturers happy. It gives them a large market, and little spoilage. In addition, if health claims can be made for consuming carbohydrates because they are low in fat, there is the probability that prices will increase as a result; and that increase will be passed along to the consumer even if the health claims are overstated. It does, however, raise profit margins.

More insidious than the profit motive is the fact that carbohydrates lead to a kind of addiction. Eating carbohydrates leads to high blood sugar. Then, in turn, the body's desperate self-defense mechanism (involving insulin) against the toxicity of high blood Sugar (that can lead to a 'diabetic' coma) leads to low blood Sugar accompanied by tiredness, craving, and depression, which starts the next vicious high blood sugar-low blood Sugar cycle. I'll explain that in more detail below...

...Low blood sugar also leads to hunger or food craving, and that leads to eating more. The craving that comes from low blood sugar is physiological, not psychological. The binging that low blood sugar causes cannot be stopped by will power simply because it is driven by this physiological craving that is driven by low blood sugar (starvation). Physiology usually wins over psychology. You can't talk yourself out of low blood sugar. You have to eat yourself out of low blood sugar. A vicious cycle of high/low blood sugar ensues. Low blood sugar can make people very tired and sleepy, and probably accounts for far more road accidents than we care to admit. Even violence has a strong connection to low blood sugar, estimated to be about 80% of non-premeditated violent crimes." Tweet