Although most dieters have heard that it’s a good idea to avoid carbohydrates (especially sweets, bread, pasta, cereal, etc.) when trying to lose weight, many not understand why carb avoidance is so necessary for losing weight. Even doctors may make the claim that calories are calories and to lose weight all you have to do is eat fewer calories than you burn through your activities. The thing is, hormonal factors can influence how easy or hard calories from a given type of food are to burn. With a little investigation, it becomes obvious that a high intake of carbohydrates, regardless of one’s total calorie intake, will make the body prone to depositing fat.At the heart of the matter is the hormone insulin. The function of insulin is to stimulate the cells to take up sugar from the bloodstream (when blood sugar is high, as it typically is shortly after eating) and store it for reserve energy.This extra blood sugar is first stored as a compound called glycogen in the muscles and liver. Glycogen can be quickly converted back to blood sugar when needed for energy to fuel sudden bursts of activity. The available storage […]

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