Researchers have long
known that eating refined sugar can provoke short-lived spikes
in the body's insulin levels. But in the past two decades, they
have learned that certain complex carbohydrates--starchy roots
like potatoes and carrots and highly refined foods like white
bread, white rice and white pasta--are broken down into simple
sugars so rapidly by the body that they can trigger a strong
insulin response; these foods have a high glycemic index.
Generally speaking, high
levels of insulin inhibit the breakdown of fatty deposits in
the body. So, it doesn't take much of a leap to suggest that
eating too many of the wrong kinds of carbohydrates leads to
too much insulin, which in turn promotes the accumulation of
fat, thereby setting up the body for continuous defeat in the
battle of the bulge.
In addition, the sugar
feeds the over population of yeast inhabiting the overweight
and obese, creating additional cravings for sugar; it's a vicious,
downward spiral.
Read Beauty and the Yeast
Beast and
find out how to break the cycle.