Is your food making you sleepy?

Imagine these two situations:

The afternoon lul around 3-4pm where the day is dragging, the office is hot and you just want to doze off.
A hyperactive five year old that’s just had a bag off sweets and is bouncing off the walls

What have the two situations got in common?

Sugar.

Here’s a quick background check:

Food goes in. It gets digested in the gut and the stuff your body wants is absorbed in to the cells. Now in amongst the mix of vitamins and minerals are your proteins, your carbohydrates and the fatty acids (lipids). They float around the blood stream and if they’re required they’re used and if they aren’t needed just yet they’re stored in the various sites that correspond to each nutrient.

The fueling is half of the function of food (the other is rebuilding). Despite the situation and the specific energy requirements proteins, carbohydrates and fats are broken down in to simple glucose molecules which can then be used to create the one fuel your muscles can use for contractions.

Let’s go back a step, when all that fuel is floating around you’re in a high energy state just incase it’s going to be used. For it to get in to the cells your body releases insulin, the “stronger-soaker-upper” chemical. The more fuel there to absorb the more insulin is released and the quicker it’s absorbed. You cause your body to go from high energy to low energy really quickly. This is your sugar crash.

Here’s a word of support for mum’s: Your sugared up, hyperactive five year old won’t be high for too long – he’ll be asleep in half an hour!

One of the big things that formulates out nutrition plan that boot campers follow is balancing these sugar levels so you don’t get the dizzying highs and crushing lows. The rest is a more balanced and controlled flow of energy that means you aren’t asleep on the M6 at 5.30pm.

One really important thing to note about the insulin is that the high fat foods and high sugar foods we eat cause some serious inbalances that upset the release and sensitivity of receptor cells that release insulin. If these don’t work properly the risks of diabetes and heart disease sky rocket. Just think. All that simple sugar floating around your innerds but your body is used to having those huge levels available…. all the time. How’s that going to make you feel? What effect is that going to have on your heart and circulatory system?

All that crap is going to be there… all the time. So aside from being on a blood-sugar rock n rollercoaster you’ll also increase your chance of Coronary Heart Disease and death.

Chocolate isn’t looking so attractive now huh?

Put let’s examine the bigger picture. THEY, the big diet clubs and health companies, (BTFC’s – B**tard Theiving Food Companies) are flogging us information and diet plans at a premium that completely ignore this. It doesn’t matter whether you’re on a purple day or a polakdot afternoon, you’re body works the same all the time.

So why are we still being fed utter lies? I read over a user guide given to diet club members in rainhill last week. Apparently it’s cool to have a cake because it’s only worth so much twice a week. It’s also fine to go out and eat a fast food burger as long as you’re within your allotted allowance.

It really annoys me becasue this isn’t healthy and as we’ve just seen this compeltely messes around with your inner workings.

Now I know I’m going to really hack alot of people off but common. Don’t get sucked in by their unscientific, unadulterated nonsense. We aren’t suckers, don’t let BTFC’s take you to be.

Steve
Rainhill Boot Camp
www.pbfit.co.uk