As you all know by now I'm been flooding you with information on modern wheat consumption and it's affect on our health. Not to much more to go, I promise, and for more information on this subject I really advise reading the book, 'Wheat Belly' by Dr. William Davis.
The next part I'd like to give you on wheat is the excerpt out of the book talking about the link between wheat, blood sugar, insulin and diabetes.
Again for more information please refer to the book.
"Because of wheat's incredible capacity to send blood sugar levels straight up, initiate the glucose-insulin roller coaster ride that drives appetite, generates addictive brain-active ex orphans, and grow visceral fat, (waist/abdominal fat) it is the one essential food to eliminate in a serious effort to prevent, reduce or eliminate diabetes.
You could remove wheat and an entire domino effect of changes develop: less triggering of blood sugar rises, no exorphins to drive the impulse to consume more, no initiation of the glucose-insulin cycle, there's little to drive appetite except the genuine physiologic need for sustenance, not over indulgence.
If appetite shrinks, calorie intake is reduced, visceral fat disappears, insulin resistance improves, blood sugars fall"
As we've spoke about in the past, if we continually roller coaster the blood sugars, then go high from consuming sugar, excess carbs, wheat (whole and refined), grains etc, then we release insulin, (if we haven't already become type-2 diabetic and are resistant to it), and this insulin plummets the blood sugar as it becomes stored as body fat (visceral fat). Now we have low blood sugar so our appetite drives us to consume more sugar and wheat and..... this is where we get that drive I hear a lot, "but it tastes so good! Surely a little is ok?"
A client told me of her son this week who had a piece of whole grain wheat toast and his blood sugar shot up to over 230 right after he consumed it. (Thanks for sharing that Veronica).
So again, the choice is ours as individuals to make, choices have consequences, as in all walks of life, whether those consequences are positive or negative, healthy or unhealthy, good or bad, cause and effect. The laws of nature that are there that can't be broken, it's just what they are.
1) On the track of optimal health, eat whole unprocessed foods, grass fed, organic, weighted on vegetables, (lots of greens everyday!) then fruit, nuts and seeds, and then free range grass fed wild caught proteins. Eat like a triangle, more calories in the AM, to the peak of the triangle in the PM of reduced calories. Maximal nutrition for the calories ingested.
Breakfast - Snack 1- Lunch - Snack 2 - Supper/Dinner
2) Be vigorously active and exercise for at least a minimum of 5 hours a week, 20 hours a month, (just 20 hours out of a possible 480 awake hours, that's 4.2% of the time). Vigorous means working though, not sitting on a machine, we sit too much anyway right?!
3) Sleep- destress! This one is a tough one for a lot of people, but again, if you desire to be of optimal health and wellness, the laws of nature can't be beaten on this one. We, as humans, as animals, need sleep and rest, 8 hours of sleep a night, consistently! This is vital for your body to repair, learn, rebuild, have a strong immune system.
Because exercise and activity is an acute stress for your body, by not getting enough sleep and recovery, exercise and activity could be just compounding the stress and actually not helping as much as you want it to, but that's another email!
Just a leaving reminder- stress, physical, nutritional and mental/psychological, when chronic in nature, and your body/being not have a chance to naturally wind down and rejuvenate through sleep and rest, WILL destroy your immune system, WILL put your body in a state of energy storage so weight gain, and WILL reduce your around health, fitness, mental feeling and well being.
Thanks all, hope you found this of some help for your individual goals in your health, fitness and wellness. Next one will be about phytochemicals!
