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A Calorie is not a Calorie
This article points to a major flaw in our efforts to combat obesity—demonizing the lowly calorie. When you consume a calorie, just who decides whether it goes to fat storage, tissue repair or energy needs? The simple answer is the brain. When the brain is working normally, it auto-regulates fat storage based on whether or not it perceives a famine on the horizon. How does it do so? By monitoring glucose levels.
In primitive man glucose levels were an accurate way to access food supply. In modern man this is no longer true for two reasons—excessive fructose and high glycemic carbohydrates. It is now clear that excessive fructose is the driving force behind insulin resistance and central obesity. When you have insulin resistance and consume high glycemic carbohydrates, your brain is exposed to magnified glucose spikes followed by a drop below normal called hypoglycemia.
The brain doesn’t know how to read glucose spikes but it does know how to read hypoglycemia—it’s time to eat. When you respond by eating another high glycemic carbohydrate you end up with another glucose spike and crash. These repeated episodes of hypoglycemia are interpreted by your brain as a possible famine on the horizon and it then pushes you to store extra fat at any caloric intake.
What’s even worse these toxic magnified glucose spikes eventually trigger a chronic brain disorder called Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome. Learn more at: http://carbsyndrome.com.
Posted by William L. Wilson, M.D.
15 April 2012 | 01h08