The ‘Eat Healthy’ Directives That Keep Us Overweight & Sick
Unfortunately, most ‘eat healthy’ directives are carbohydrate focused. Like the newly famed Avocado Toast. Why is it labeled healthy?
Is it because of the natural fat component of the avocado? However, it is toast (carbohydrate) under avocado (fat and carbohydrate) under tomato (carbohydrate) under balsamic glaze (carbohydrate).
They are all blood sugar and insulin foods.
Replace the avocado toast with a few eggs cooked in butter with a side of bacon and you consume virtually no carbohydrate. No carbohydrate means no blood sugar surge. No blood sugar surge means no insulin release.
AND… No insulin release means you are better able to burn body fat.
Now that’s healthy eating… and delicious!
The Carbohydrate Conundrum
Okay…back to the glucose and a bit more light on carbohydrate and why, as a food category, it is what is keeping you from weight loss.
You’ve got to remember that you don’t need to eat any carbohydrate-glucose food because your body makes glucose.
That’s why carbohydrate, in science terms, is considered a non-essential macronutrient. It’s not essential because your body can create glucose from protein. So your body will do just fine without eating carbohydrate because it creates its own carbohydrates, so to speak, or glucose.
And guess what? Guess how much circulating blood sugar/glucose your body strives to maintain. Your body’s optimal amount is just 4 grams. Four grams of blood sugar. That’s about 83 mg/dl or roughly one teaspoon.
The bagel example puts in 64 grams. The bagel overwhelms your blood sugar by 60 grams. Instead of 1 teaspoon of sugar in your blood, your blood is now flooded with 16 teaspoons.
How Many Carbohydrates Are In Avocado Toast?
Toast/Grain 15-30 cbs
Avocado/Fruit 6 – 10 cbs
Tomato/Fruit 5 – 10 cbs
Balsamic Glaze appr. 6 cbs
TOTAL: 32 – 56 carbohydrates
Certainly, portion size matters greatly.
Though labeled ‘healthy’, the avocado toast is a glucose-insulin generating meal. And whoever thinks this is going to lead them out of weight loss will remain frustrated and defeated.
Yes, the avocado toast is a better choice than the bagel because it reduces glucose intake by half. Rounding at about 32 grams of carbohydrate for just one serving if it’s on low carbohydrate bread.
The 32 grams represents 8 teaspoons of sugar added to your blood.
The real lousy is that this kind of eating will have the eater who is trying to lose weight believing they are being ‘healthy’ but actually they’ll just end up being hungry….and NOT able to burn any body fat any time soon.
