Insulin makes us fat

April 11th, 2007 by Steve | View blog reactions

If you have try some of the diet for weight loss you may find that after some period of time you have lost your weight. But not lot time should to pass to find you again fat and maybe fatter than prior diet. This is because you allow the calories to occupy your body again as a result of bad food you have consumed after the diet. You should know how to make a balance between the intake of calories which came into your body with the food and burning the same calories through exercise.

In order to achieve this you are suggested to eat a low calorie food which will prevent your body from accumulating the fat. So, it is very important to know what are you eating and the amount of calories you take into the body. If you can make some balance you should not worry about your weight.When we are talking of low calorie food we can include here low carbohydrate food. Taking a low carbohydrate diet means you should avoid sugar, flour and some other food such as: pasta and bread. But carbohydrates can be also found in the vegetables and in fruits as well.

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But every physician with who you will talk about your weight loss will suggest you never completely to avoid the foods which are containing the carbohydrates. You should know that the carbohydrates are very important for our body and when our body miss them this may be the reason for some diseases. Carbohydrates are mostly used by our brain. These are also called the food for the brain. Other parts of our body that uses the carbohydrates are muscles and the liver.

The carbohydrates which are stored in the liver are in the form of glycogen. This glycogen is very important in order to maintain the certain level of sugar in the blood. So if the level is low, the liver will release some of accumulated glycogen in order to maintain the desired level needed by the brain and sufficient for performing physical activities. The energy released with burning of these carbohydrates is immense. When the liver can not absorb glycogen anymore than the excess of carbohydrates in our body is transformed into fats. These fats are stored in order to support the liver when it does not have glycogen anymore.

Another important aspect here is – when we eat food rich with carbohydrates the blood glucose is increasing which is a signal for the pancreas to secrete the hormone insulin. The insulin helps to our body to decrease the blood glucose level. With secreting insulin all excess carbohydrates in our body are transformed into fat. So we can say that the insulin is hormone which makes fats in our organism. These fats are stored for further use when the blood glucose is low and the liver have not glucose. You should know also that realizing the stored fats by the insulin is very hard, and because of this we have problems when we want to lose our weight.

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