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What to Replace Simple Sugars with for Weight Loss and Building Muscle biobalancehealth's podcast
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There are almost as many different human metabolic variations as there are people in the world. Our genetics make us all unique in ways that vary the way we can lose weight or even gain weight. On the other hand, we all had to descend from humans who survived famine, lack of water and lack of nutrition sources, so in one way we are all the same…we have genes that helped us survive times that required of us the ability to maintain our weight even without eating! The people who genetically were unable to gain fat and keep it to hold them over during famine just didn’t make it to an age they could procreate. The rest of us whose ancestors survived, have given the majority of us the genes to maintain body fat.
Unfortunately, we have been blindly unaware of what man’s evolution and progress has led us to physically, and most of us are over-fat, and have trouble losing it! The very genes that allowed us to survive the beginning of man’s existence, are the same ones that make it hard to become slender. In addition, in our current societies in the western world, food is plentiful and inexpensive. Our genes have not changed, but our environment has, and we are becoming sick because of our obesity…how do we survive this “new world”?
You may hear a lot about insulin resistance, and I talk about it a lot on my Healthcasts, but it is insulin resistance that has allowed us to survive and has also led us to obesity today. The humans who were insulin resistant who also held on to their fat in times of starvation are also the humans who have become obese in the face of plenty. We can’t change our genes, but we can turn some of the obesity genes off through lifestyle and sometimes with the help of medication.
Despite our basic sameness, we are also each individual, and genetically programed so that some of us lose weight if we restrict calories, others lose weight only if they exercise; Some of us don’t lose weight with exercise; some people don’t lose weight with carbohydrate restriction or fat restriction, and some do. This is the ugly truth that lies behind the millions of books on diet, none of which work for more than a small number of us, and because it is a diet we can’t maintain it...what we need is to determine is the best weight loss program for each of us, by using trial and error, or by using genetic testing that tells us what our best pathway to a normal weight looks like.
To begin we must take baby steps and learn about food and what the words mean that we use when referring to food. Because there are many people who may have several hurdles to jump before they can live at their healthy weight, we need to all speak the same language of weight loss.
So let’s start with a bit of education about food.
WHAT IS A SIMPLE SUGAR?
A simple sugar is a nutrient meant to give you energy for physical activity. Eating a small amount of a simple or a complex sugar before exercise is a good idea. However, if you sit most of your day, working with your brain instead of your body, simple sugars can increase your fat storage because you aren’t physically working. This is true whether restricting sugar is your genetic method of weight loss or not. Too many simple sugars make you hungry and cause everyone to overeat.….causing weight gain and fat gain. So what are simple sugars?
Examples of simple sugars:
· Sugar, white, cane and brown
· Molasses
· Regular Soda
· Agave
· Honey
· Syrup-maple or any
· Rice, white and brown
· Cereals-all
· Oatmeal
· Donuts
· White potatoes
· Bread
· Pancakes/waffles
· Noodles
· All Grains: wheat, oats, rice, corn and anything made from them including flour
·
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog
There are almost as many different human metabolic variations as there are people in the world. Our genetics make us all unique in ways that vary the way we can lose weight or even gain weight. On the other hand, we all had to descend from humans who survived famine, lack of water and lack of nutrition sources, so in one way we are all the same…we have genes that helped us survive times that required of us the ability to maintain our weight even without eating! The people who genetically were unable to gain fat and keep it to hold them over during famine just didn’t make it to an age they could procreate. The rest of us whose ancestors survived, have given the majority of us the genes to maintain body fat.
Unfortunately, we have been blindly unaware of what man’s evolution and progress has led us to physically, and most of us are over-fat, and have trouble losing it! The very genes that allowed us to survive the beginning of man’s existence, are the same ones that make it hard to become slender. In addition, in our current societies in the western world, food is plentiful and inexpensive. Our genes have not changed, but our environment has, and we are becoming sick because of our obesity…how do we survive this “new world”?
You may hear a lot about insulin resistance, and I talk about it a lot on my Healthcasts, but it is insulin resistance that has allowed us to survive and has also led us to obesity today. The humans who were insulin resistant who also held on to their fat in times of starvation are also the humans who have become obese in the face of plenty. We can’t change our genes, but we can turn some of the obesity genes off through lifestyle and sometimes with the help of medication.
Despite our basic sameness, we are also each individual, and genetically programed so that some of us lose weight if we restrict calories, others lose weight only if they exercise; Some of us don’t lose weight with exercise; some people don’t lose weight with carbohydrate restriction or fat restriction, and some do. This is the ugly truth that lies behind the millions of books on diet, none of which work for more than a small number of us, and because it is a diet we can’t maintain it...what we need is to determine is the best weight loss program for each of us, by using trial and error, or by using genetic testing that tells us what our best pathway to a normal weight looks like.
To begin we must take baby steps and learn about food and what the words mean that we use when referring to food. Because there are many people who may have several hurdles to jump before they can live at their healthy weight, we need to all speak the same language of weight loss.
So let’s start with a bit of education about food.
WHAT IS A SIMPLE SUGAR?
A simple sugar is a nutrient meant to give you energy for physical activity. Eating a small amount of a simple or a complex sugar before exercise is a good idea. However, if you sit most of your day, working with your brain instead of your body, simple sugars can increase your fat storage because you aren’t physically working. This is true whether restricting sugar is your genetic method of weight loss or not. Too many simple sugars make you hungry and cause everyone to overeat.….causing weight gain and fat gain. So what are simple sugars?
Examples of simple sugars:
· Sugar, white, cane and brown
· Molasses
· Regular Soda
· Agave
· Honey
· Syrup-maple or any
· Rice, white and brown
· Cereals-all
· Oatmeal
· Donuts
· White potatoes
· Bread
· Pancakes/waffles
· Noodles
· All Grains: wheat, oats, rice, corn and anything made from them including flour
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28 min