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Understanding weight gain
More Australians are overweight or obese and the number is steadily rising, so we need to educate us regarding why and how we gain weight, what factors are associated with it and how to improve our weight wellbeing.
What is Carbohydrate?
We all know that food comes in three forms: fat, protein, and carbohydrate. Most foods have all three, in different proportions. Main carbohydrates are sugar, starches, and cellulose. Different food has different components, like fruits mainly has sugar and vegetable mainly has starch but they both have cellulose in them. I came across an article about the difference between natural and processed carbohydrates and how it affects our body when consumed: sugar the sweet thief of life
Weight gain and carbohydrates:
Carbohydrates are the important source of fuel to our body organs, when it is broken down in our stomach and produced glucose, insulin hormone is the one helps to get the glucose moved from the blood stream to our cells to be used as energy.
Why do we gain weight?
The main flaw is if we use less energy but eat more we will gain weight. Also when we consume high glycaemic/high calorie food they spike our blood pressure faster; when the blood pressure falls down body compensate by producing more insulin; many calories are sent to the fat cells of our stomach.
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