Advanced Training Essentials Carbs: good or bad? One nutritional mistake many make, and one that is easy to repeat given our human propensity for sweet foods over more healthful culinary choices, is the regular consumption of high sugar fare. Though an essential way to supply easily usable energy to power intensive workouts, carbohydrate intake, in particular the simple variety, may, if injudiciously incorporated, do more harm than good. Whenever we snack on a serving of chocolate or other refined simple-sugar based treat, our blood sugar levels rise and our body releases from the pancreas an abundance of insulin to promote the successful storage of the sugars we have consumed. However, because our muscles and liver are usually well stocked with glycogen (stored carbohydrates which are, in turn, converted into glucose for energy) any additional rapidly-absorbed simple carbs will likely be converted into fat (as they must be stored somewhere). The more insulin that is released, the more sugar that is stored (either for energy or as fat) until eventually our blood sugar may be driven below the level needed to keep many of our biological processes from running as they should. Thus, we may become lethargic, and also increasingly hungrier. Because of our altered brain chemistry due to our hypoglycemic state (brought on by our excessive carb intake and exacerbated by our intensified craving for more sugary foods) we continue our simply-carb gorge fest. Unwanted weight gain is the inevitable result. So go easy on those simple, sugary carbs.
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 22:45:03 +0000
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