Sugar and Weight

The decision to cut the sweet things to lose a few (or a lot) of books is a very wise choice. Sugar is, after all, a source of empty calories. Reducing sugar intake to control weight seems obvious, but there is more to it than meets the eye.

The sugar molecules containing glucose and fructose. Although glucose is essential for survival and is used for all our metabolism, fructose is another story. Fructose has very little use in the body outside the liver where it is converted into fat. When we eat sugar, we are indeed perhaps too simplistically, only add to our fat unless you burn sugar immediately.

The sugar of fructose may also cause resistance to leptin. Leptin is a hormone released by fat cells to tell the brain that we have sufficient reserves and can survive for a while without eating. Leptin tells the brain that we need food. When the brain does not receive these hormonal signals, you think we still have room to avoid the risk of starvation. We are also burn fewer calories so that we can store more fat. No matter how much our strength of will is, it is very hard to ignore this circuit metabolic survival in our body. That's why simply cutting calories (while consuming sugar) and move more normally does not work.

The sugar of fructose is also largely responsible for the insulin resistance. When we are insulin levels increase insulin resistance in our bodies. This makes the stored fat in fat cells (long-term can lead to type II diabetes, among others).

As an aside, while the consumption of foods containing glucose (think complex carbohydrates) to make us feel happy, eating foods that are high in fructose are more likely to leave us we still feel hungry, or feel hungry again very quickly.

So if you are interested in losing a few pounds, or increase your overall health and well-being, would do well to reduce the amount of sugar you eat and avoid foods that list fructose corn syrup high or other forms of refined sugar as an ingredient.

Note that I have always talked about "the fructose part of sugar here. Fructose that occurs naturally in fruits does not react so radically in our bodies and fruits contain lots of vitamins, fiber and other good things for your body - so you can still enjoy in moderation.

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