Since I am on a sugar fast, and my brain may be functioning slightly below par, allow me some grace to expound. I will now explain why this story is pertinent. If your body was a furnace, wood would be it's medium of energy for producing heat. Paper, gasoline, compressed air, birch bark and host of other highly flammable materials would provide "a fast burn". Logs, however, especially good hardwood would cause a nice slow burn lasting many hours. The bi product of a good burning wood is clean. The bi product of gasoline, some oil rags, and possibly a can of compressed air would be more flammable and explosive in nature. It would also leave a stink in the air. If you put paper and gas in your wood stove every hour, you would constantly be restarting the stove. If you eat sugar cereal for breakfast, frozen pizza for lunch and McDonald's for dinner, you are doing a similar job on your body. It suffers ups and downs all day long. It gets a "fast burn" and has little sustainable. It is also full of hazardous bi products. This is my very limited explanation of the Glycemic Index. If you eat fruits, vegetables, whole grains, meats and dairy products in proper balance, you will have a sustainable burn. This burn is appropriate to health, weight management and over all good mental functions.
Here are some links on the Glycemic Index.
http://www.glycemicindex.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index
http://diabetes.webmd.com/glycemic-index-good-versus-bad-carbs
Another Good Reference to learn from is "Feel Great Look Great" by Joyce Meyer.
1 comment:
I'm so bad! I think of your sugar fast every time I pop something poisonous in my body - chocolate, red licoris, etc. I think, "what could I eat instead of this?" and then I eat the junk..... some day I'll do it for a day, week, month
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