| The average American diet contains a very large | | | | overweight eating lots of sugar and carbohydrates. It is |
| percentage of its overall calories from fat. But you | | | | being overweight that is a problem, not the fat in the |
| may have heard this a lot of times: "In order to live | | | | diet. |
| longer, you should eat less fat and more | | | | You may ask, how can eating too much caloric rich |
| carbohydrates." | | | | foods or eating too much sweets can make you |
| But, it is a false statement that this all of the fat in your | | | | overweight? After all, they are not fats. |
| daily diet is bad for you. In fact, there are groups of | | | | Yes, carbohydrates are not fats. But the body can |
| people on the world whose diet contains a lot of fat - | | | | convert carbohydrate into fats which can be |
| the Eskimos for example. Here's what you should | | | | deposited around your tummy, around your internal |
| know, it is not absolutely the fat, but the sugar and | | | | organs, and can lead to unwanted manifestations |
| processed foods that gave modern mankind | | | | above if left at an uncontrolled level. It is important to |
| degenerative diseases like heart attack, stroke or | | | | know that fat around the waist is the most dangerous |
| diabetes mellitus. | | | | of all fats in our body. |
| Until our diets became influenced by Soft Drinks and | | | | Because much of the foods in our modern diet |
| French Fries, the Eskimos ate a daily diet which | | | | consists of empty calories, that is, they contain almost |
| included large quantities of blubber - a very saturated | | | | only carbohydrates and devoid of other nutrients and |
| fat, and yes, very high in cholesterol. Cardiac illness | | | | fiber, thus our foods are called empty calories, this |
| was completely unknown among the Eskimos until | | | | means that we eat a lot of carbohydrates in our diet. |
| they took hold of Western ways with diet and life | | | | Carbohydrates are calories. And calories are our fuel |
| style. But this does not advocate that eating | | | | for to produce energy. Much of man's modern lifestyle |
| cholesterol rich foods are completely safe for you, no. | | | | is sedentary. Without much physical activity but our |
| This is to simply compare and see how our modern | | | | diet is very rich in carbohydrates, our body sees that |
| diet has caused us so much health trouble. | | | | there is a surplus of calories. So it has to store them |
| Too much weight gain, coupled with our modern | | | | anyway because it has not been used or transformed |
| sedentary lifestyle which lacks physical exercise, is a | | | | into energy. What our body does is to convert these |
| heart problem risk factor for both men and women | | | | calories (which is glucose actually, the simplest form of |
| because it leads to unhealthy increase in the blood | | | | carbohydrates) into fats in the process of |
| pressure, blood lipids or fats, and can lead to damaging | | | | glycogenesis which our body normally stores in the |
| blood sugar levels. All of the mentioned consequence | | | | liver and muscles. But if there is too much to store, our |
| do have a profound influence in increasing the risk of | | | | body will store these fats around our internal organs |
| heart attack. Being overweight can lead to these | | | | and around our tights, etc. That is why people can get |
| manifestations which are a real cause of heart | | | | overweight by eating too much carbohydrate rich |
| disease. Here is one thing for sure - you can get | | | | foods. |