Why you want to avoid sugar peaks
The post on ‘sensible snacking’ mentioned sugar peaks as a serious problem. What’s the danger?
Put simply, sugar peaks make you fat and being fat increases inflammation, ruins your metabolism and increases the risk of cancer and all the other diseases that make you die early or like dementia, spoil your quality of life.
How so? When you absorb neat glucose into your blood stream from quick release carbs or fizzy drinks, the body either has to burn it or store it. Ifyou walk 10,000 steps a day or exercise in some other way you will possibly burn it; if you sit at a desk and drive everywhere, you won’t. What the body does is try to temporarily store it in muscle or the liver, but the stores are so limited in capacity, that most of the ‘peak’ is left over. The hormone insulin turns the excess sugar into fat. If there is a famine soon then that might save your life: if not, it might slowly kill you, as your body fat creeps up and up, your blood pressure rises and your cholesterol goes way out of balance.
When we need to raise our blood sugar, we need slow release carbs, eg whole-wheat grains, root vegetables or modest portions of whole fruit. Or just eat more greens, protein and fat. Fat in particular is a great source of energy and interestingly, because there are bigger stores for fat digestion products in the blood, fat that is eaten rarely gets stored as body fat.
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