What Do Carbohydrates Do?
What Do Carbohydrates Do?
Your body needs three types of “macro-nutrients” for growth, repair, proper functioning, and energy.(Micro-nutrients are things like vitamins and minerals.)
Proteins are the building blocks for your muscles, organs, tissues, etc. Fats are necessary for long term energy storage, they carry certain forms of vitamins and nutrients (Vitamin E, for example) and your body needs fats for many of its metabolic processes.
Carbohydrates are the fuel that your body uses for energy. They are easier to process for energy than either the fats or the proteins and your body gets more energy “bang for the buck” with carbs.
On the molecular level carboydrates are ring molecules. Table sugar, sucrose, is made up of two of these simple sugar rings. Your body takes longer to digest the complex carbs, it has to break them down into the individual rings first and then use them for energy.
This quick digestion is why your blood sugar will leap sky high when consuming a meal of simple carbs. Eat something with a lot of sugar, such as a soda, and bam! Insulin is secreted into the blood and the insulin causes the sugar levels to drop, along with your energy.
A meal of complex carbs takes longer to digest and as a result doesn’t slam sugars into your system, rather the complex carbs provide longer term energy Extreme low-carb diets, such as the first part of the Atkins Diet, are not recommended for anything other than short term use. Simple carbs are almost completely abandoned.
As far as energy goes, though, your body only needs so much at one time and it can only store so much at one time. Those extra carbs are stored in two ways.
One way is conversion into glycogen, a type of starch, which is then stored in the muscles for near term energy reserves. The other way they are stored is fat. (This is a little over-simplified, but close enough.)
In addition to being converted to fat, excess simple carbs over a long period of time can lead to a variety of health issues, diabetes and heart issues being among them. So what foods are the simple carbs? These are all “high glycemic index” (GI) foods.
Fruits tend to be in the medium GI range and most veggies are pretty low.
Your body prefers to get its carbs slowly and steadily and works best that way. You may have heard of the “eat several small meals” plans? Your body has the time to properly process the carbs and so uses them, rather than storing them as fat.
Want to gain weight fast? Eat one big meal a day, preferably in the evening, and sleep afterwards.
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