Feeling drowsy and sleepy after a meal during the day? Feeling depressed because it’s so hard to lose weight?
These feelings are distractions that divert our attention and erode our passion from academics. As a college student, I would like to help my fellow students to get back on track to study well.
Today, I’m here to tell you it’s possible to fix these problems, and what’s more exciting is that you can actually quick-fix them with only one step.
What you need to do is just as simple as this: Cut down 90 percent of the grain you eat. By grain, I mean processed grain foods (wheat, rice, corn, pasta, cereal, bread, crisps, crackers, muffins, pancakes, waffles, pizza, etc.)
Grain has an excessive load of carbohydrates, which is the root reason it’s not a healthy food. When carbohydrates come into your stomach, they are converted into glucose, which goes into the bloodstream. Ingesting grains causes blood glucose (what we usually call blood sugar) levels to spike compared to eating meat and vegetables.
Your pancreas compensates for this excess of glucose in the bloodstream by secreting excessive levels of insulin. Insulin is a hormone and one of its main functions is to deliver glucose to the muscles for muscles to consume as energy or to fat cells for storage.
Excessive insulin released into the bloodstream causes glucose to be removed rapidly and effectively to either muscle or fat cells that can result in a “sugar crash.”
This occurs in the form of mental and physical lethargy because the brain relies heavily on glucose to fuel it.
Insulin’s counter-regulatory hormone, glucagon, converts fat cells into glucose and delivers glucose into the bloodstream for use as energy. When the level of insulin in the bloodstream rises, the level of glucagon is low. Therefore, if you keep eating grain foods, there will be less chance for glucagon to help you burn fat.
I know you are a little bit confused. If we want to keep lean, why does our body needs fat in the first place?
Here’s why. Fat helped our primal ancestors to survive thousands of years ago out in the brutal and wild nature where they didn’t have regular meals as we do today.
The body fat our primal ancestors got from eating stays in their body. In case they didn’t have food to eat, they still had energy to survive for a long period of time because the glucagon can convert fat cells into glucose.
Remember, glucose is the source of energy our body need to function, and fat cells are the main storage of glucose in our body. In other words, fat is energy.
Today, we don’t need fat to be back-up energy for us. We have enough food to eat to keep us alive. However, we can’t stop our body from converting foods into fat, because this is how human beings are designed through the long course of evolution.
What we can do is to eat less grain food so that, on the one hand, we have less fat created from ingesting carbohydrates; on the other hand, we have more glucagon in our bloodstream in order to let glucagon burn more fat for us.
Hopefully, you will find yourself having more energy and being lean after you’ve tried my suggestion.
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