Contents:
- Medical Video: How do carbohydrates impact your health? - Richard J. Wood
- 5 effects that occur on the body due to excess carbohydrates
- 1. Difficult to lose weight
- 2. Cholesterol levels are increasing
- 3. Often feeling hungry
- 4. Vulnerable to type 2 diabetes mellitus
- 5. Mood changes easily
Medical Video: How do carbohydrates impact your health? - Richard J. Wood
Most Indonesian people consider not eating if there is no rice in the dish. Even though I had eaten bread or noodles before, but if I haven't met rice, it's still missing something. This habit unwittingly makes us eat too much carbohydrate. Indeed, the body needs carbohydrates as the main energy source. However, do you know what are the effects of excess carbohydrates?
5 effects that occur on the body due to excess carbohydrates
1. Difficult to lose weight
If you want to lose weight, you must pay attention to food intake, including carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Carbohydrates are one of the biggest contributors to calories, especially if you consume too much.
In one gram of carbohydrates, there are 4 calories. So, the more carbohydrates you eat, the more calories you enter and will make you gain weight.
Just imagine, in one day you eat the following tea with sugar, coffee that also uses sugar, then eat bread as a distraction, and lunch with noodles and rice.
This habit then makes weight gain, especially if it is not balanced with physical activity. Carbohydrates that should be converted into energy actually accumulate, accumulate, and eventually stored as reserve fat by the body. This certainly makes the program to lose weight more difficult.
Actually, all foods including carbohydrates will not make you gain weight if you don't consume it excessively. But unfortunately, many people do not realize that he has eaten a lot of carbohydrates.
So, from now on you have to set carbohydrate intake in a day, not to much.
2. Cholesterol levels are increasing
Consuming lots of carbohydrates, especially simple carbohydrates and refined carbohydrates such as pasta, rice, pastries, donuts, bread, pizza, and pasta can also increase blood cholesterol levels.
Reported on the Readers Digest page, Cassandra Suarez, MS, RDN, a nutritionist said that the most obvious effect of eating too much carbohydrate is cholesterol.
Eating too much simple carbohydrates and refined carbohydrates to more than 60 percent of total daily calories, has the potential to increase bad cholesterol and reduce good cholesterol.
An American Heart Association journal reports that high levels of triglycerides are actually owned by people who consume excess carbohydrates, such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose.
Triglycerides are a form of cholesterol that affects the buildup of plaque in blood vessels. Increased triglycerides are associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
3. Often feeling hungry
Have you eaten, but are you still hungry? Try to pay attention to what you eat. Basically, when blood sugar is low, the body will respond in the presence of hunger.
If you eat too much carbohydrate, instead of feeling full the body will starve. Because the body will process carbohydrates in large quantities at once. This condition will make blood sugar levels rise quickly.
However, because too much blood sugar levels will actually decrease rapidly again and eventually you feel hungry at that time. This condition will continue like that cycle.
Not only that, when you try to fight the hunger that appears, blood sugar will remain low until your next meal. At this time, the body will produce the hormone ghrelin, a hormone that increases appetite. This allows you to take revenge or overeat at the next meal.
So, choose the right type of carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates that contain more fiber so you feel full longer.
Complex carbohydrates also provide mineral vitamins for the body and help stabilize blood sugar levels better than simple carbohydrates, or processed.
4. Vulnerable to type 2 diabetes mellitus
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is caused by many factors, one of which is high blood sugar levels. What is the relationship between carbohydrates and diabetes mellitus?
People who have excess carbohydrates have the potential to experience weight gain more easily. A dramatic increase in body weight will interfere with the work of the insulin hormone.
Insulin is a hormone that converts sugar in blood into energy for cells in the body. When the work of insulin decreases, the ability of insulin to store sugar (a simple form of carbohydrates) in the cell decreases. As a result sugar accumulates in the blood, this is what makes people the greater the risk of developing diabetes.
Not only do most eat rice, the source of carbohydrates that most often trigger this condition is added sugar or processed sugar that is in sweet drinks, spices, soda.
Because the shape is not carbohydrate-dense, people don't realize that they have put too much carbohydrate in their body. Fructose, a simple sugar content commonly found in drinks can also reduce insulin sensitivity and increase blood sugar levels.
5. Mood changes easily
If you feel sad, depressed and moody lately, maybe you can see your diet again. The fact is that excess carbohydrates can affect the mood.
Simple carbohydrates, like sugar, will break down very quickly in the body and increase blood sugar levels instantly. The body will then respond by secreting insulin.
A nutritionist Cassandra Suarez, MS, RDN says that this surge and blood sugar and insulin in the blood will affect a person's mood.
