Cheryle R. Hart > Quotes

“High levels of stress can worsen insulin resistance because stress activates our “fight or flight” survival mechanism. This stimulates the production of the stress hormone epinephrine. Epinephrine causes the liver and muscles to change glucose from its
reserved state, glycogen, to its active sugar form for energy. This causes the glucose levels in your blood to rise. Insulin rises to control high glucose levels. Increased insulin levels then signal fat storing. This explains why some really stressed people cannot lose unwanted weight despite “doing everything right.”
― Cheryle R. Hart, The Insulin-Resistance Diet

“If you have more glucose in your body than your cells need, insulin takes extra blood glucose and transports it into fat storage. Blood sugar then returns to normal. This step is important because having abnormally high levels of blood glucose is called diabetes and is very damaging to the body.”
― Cheryle R. Hart, The Insulin-Resistance Diet

“....during the agricultural age, humans had easier access to high-carbohydrate foods, such as grains and fruits. Sugary foods are a more recent addition to modern diets. Nowadays, in the Western world you are bombarded with an overabundance of refined carbo- hydrates that have been marketed to help make your hurried life more convenient. Your body, however, is not equipped to handle the abundance of these types of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates not used as an immediate energy source are turned into stored fat. Along with Americans’ increasingly sedentary lifestyle, this explains why, even with the development of low-fat and nonfat food choices, excessive carbohydrates have continued to fatten so many people.”
― Cheryle R. Hart, The Insulin-Resistance Diet