The body adapts to its source of fuel.
Sugar is the regular unleaded fuel you get from QT. It's cheap, it burns fast, and you always have to put more gas in to keep it above empty. When you eat sugar (any carbohydrate that turns to sugar when digested) the body immediately attempts to distribute it through the body. If you're doing something active, the body transports the sugars to the muscles to replenish glycogen stores. The transporting hormone is none other than the diabetics best friend, INSULIN. Insulin does its best at transporting the glucose from the blood to the liver and muscles but when the muscles are not pumped and primed to need more glucose, and there's too much sugar in the blood, it is stored in the fat cells. Over a long time of sugar abuse, the pancreas (organ that produces and releases insulin) shuts down due to stress and overuse. Diabetes and obesity are the result.
Fat is like running on solar panels in the desert. There is an initial investment in the panels (high quality fats aren't cheap and neither were those extra pounds you carry as reserves), but they pay off quickly with unlimited free fuel in a state that sees 300 days of sun a year, AZ!! Using your bodyfat as fuel is the bodys' most dependable source of energy. But in order for your body to burn fat, you have to eat fat.
"But if I eat fat, won't I just gain fat?"-Fat freightened American that bought some stock in the NONFAT craze that swept the country, replacing healthy fats with added carbohydrates (sugar).
It is important that you train your body to burn fat. The only way to do this is by eating plenty of healthy dietary fats and eliminating sugar. America needs to go on a NONSUGAR craze in order to fix the diabetes and obesity epidemics that have swept our country caused by the NONFAT craze.
Healthy fats are those found naturally occuring in: fish, nuts and seeds (walnuts, almonds, flax, sunflower, hemp), and fruits (avocados, olives, coconuts). As long as you stick to fats that are found in nature, it is of good benefit to your health eat a good amount of fat every day. The fats that are denatured and altered by the cooking process or refining process are the fats that need to be feared and avoided (trans-fats and hydrogenated fats).
Benefits of Eating Healthy Dietary Fats (Omega-3's, Monounsaturated)
as Your Main Fuel Source Instead of Carbohydrates (Sugar):
-Fat burns slow giving you sustained energy to go the distance
-Fat helps control insulin release keeping blood sugars in check until needed by your muscles
-Eating dietary fat trains your body to burn fat so when you work on an empty tank the body burns stored body fat
-Fats tastes delicious and makes you feel full much quicker than sugar, helping you eat less
-Fat lowers LDL (bad) cholesterol and raises HDL (good) cholesterol
-Reduces risk of heart disease by lowering blood pressure, lowering blood triglycerides, and removing fatty plaques from you artery walls.
-Improves your vision. Omega 3 fatty acids are used by the body to make retinol tissue making your vision stronger.
-Some other benefits include: good absorption of fat soluble vitamins, healthy skin, improved brain health, improved heart health,
improved liver health, improved lung health, optimal nervous system function, Reduced cancer risk, reduced inflammation, reduced PMS symptoms, strong cell walls, strong bones, strong immune system.
If you want to perform well, without needing gatorades and powerbar gel packets to endure (keep your blood sugars elevated), you must eat fat.
Try my favorite pre-workout meal 90-120 minutes prior to a long hard workout and have plenty in your gas tank to complete a full marathon (if you are so inclined to run one). The best combination of nutrients prior to a long workout is fat and a low glycemic carbohydrate. This recipe combines the healthy fats of nuts and seeds with a slower burning carbohydrate to create the ultimate fuel that will not only deliver power but will automatically switch to solar power (bodyfat) when the tank runs empty.
Little Rascal Pre-Workout Cereal
-cook buckwheat in rice cooker or on stove (1 cup buckwheat:3 cups water)
-add berries
-add walnuts/almonds
-put in refridgerator
-serve a cup in a bowl and pour on flax milk
-sprinkle cinnamon over the top
-enjoy
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