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Pittsburg, Kansas | One thing about high sugar or carb content diets that is important is the frequency of the ingenstion of the carbs and its effect on insulin resistance.
Once a person becomes insulin resistant it becomes easier to store carbs as fat and harder for the body to switch gears and burn that body fat (energy storage) back off.
Insulin resistance comes about when insulin levels in the body are raised nearly all the time. This constant barage of insulin causes cells to become resistant to its effects. So the pancrease has to produce ever increasing amounts to do the same job of blood sugar control.
So if a person wanted to go about giving themselves insulin resistance, they would want to elevate their insulin levels all hours of the day. When a person eats carbohydrates, insulin levels raise and do its job, then insulin levels are supposed to drop again and give the cells a rest. So the best way to purposely create insulin resistance is eat carbs too often. Like at breakfast, then a couple hours later as a snack, then again at lunch. Then a couple hours later as a mid afternoon snack, then again at supper, then once more with an insulin spike to last most of the night a late night carby snack. Basically the way many people now eat. Nearly constantly. Or sip on a sugary soda all day long will do the same thing.
Contrast this to someone who either does not eat carbs at every meal and snack time or even eats carbs but limits their consumption to the three main meals but nothing in between. Insulin spikes at each meal but between meals has a chance to come back down to basal levels.
So two people, even eating the same exact amount of carbs a day, but one eating lots of small amounts almost constantly will become insulin resistant much quicker than someone who limits the food intake to three distinct meals.
Populations that eat mostly carbs can do so and not become insulin resistant because they do not eat constantly throughout the day. Modern society tends to, especially if they also consume sugary drinks, tends to eat way too often to ever let their body "rest" from high insulin levels.
Like Roundup resistant weeds are developed more rapidly by using the same herbidice all the time, the body becomes resistant to its own insulin by never letting cells have a "rest" from high levels of insulin between meals.
So constant sugar consumption and resulting constant levels of high insulin is a lot worse in making a person metabolically unhealthy than the specific level of sugar or carbohydrate consumption. Some populations do fine on high levels of carbohydrates, with the difference they are not consuming them all day long constantly. If a person is going to eat a high carb diet, at least limit it to meal time without eating between meals and no late night snacks.
Edited by John Burns 1/20/2023 21:02
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High carb pie, sorry John...
