Vitamins, minerals and nutrients are like bricks, mortar, windows, doors, wood, etc. of house. They are parts that your body uses to build you. If you don’t give your body those key building blocks, things in your body are not going to work very well.

If you try to substitute cheap, not so good imitations, if you tried to build a brick house with a bunch of rocks, house would not be as good. If you tried to use old, warped windows, house would not function very well. If you used wood that had holes in it and was not complete, your house would not be very functional. For your body to continue to function at its best and do everything it used to, your body needs to continually be replacing broken down worn out parts with new parts. And if new parts, if vitamins and minerals you give it are not whole, or not enough, your body is going to break down. If you give your body less wood than it needs, so you cannot finish roof, you might be able to keep wind out, but when it rains, you get wet.

The second reason refined carbohydrates are not good for you is that refined carbs drastically alter your blood sugar levels. What is big deal with this? The easiest to show you is what happens to you after you eat. You get really tired and lethargic. You have trouble staying awake and you want to go to sleep. Guess what? The rest of your body is doing same thing. Your cells are going into a “sugar coma.” Your mind, which controls everything, is also going to sleep on job. Your brain is not doing everything it needs to do to keep you functioning properly. And if your brain is not doing its job properly, anything could be going wrong with your body, and often is.

Refined carbs/sugars also are one of main contributing factors to heart disease and high cholesterol levels, as I showed you earlier.

How does sugar and refined carbohydrates make you fat? It is really simple. You have a relatively set amount of fat cells in your body. It is just a matter of how big your fat cells are. So what affects size of your fat cells? Sugar. Because glucose is what is stored in your fat cells. And there is a little “gate” that controls movement of sugar in and out of your fat cells. And key to this little gate is insulin. Insulin is key that opens gates to fat cells and allows excess glucose in blood to go into fat cells. So if you never eat anything that raises your blood sugar levels beyond normal, your body will not release insulin, and you will not get bigger fat cells.

The body releases insulin to lower blood sugar levels that are too high. So Sugar and refined carbohydrates are actually what is one of biggest contributing factors to why people are overweight.

The ironic part of all of this, is that when you get food that has “artificially” been made to be low fat, you know what they usually put in when they take out fat? Sugar. They usually add very thing that contributes to people being fat when they are trying to make something that many people think is helping them not be fat. Fat does not make you fat. In fact, you need essential fatty acids found in fat to live. Sugar is one of biggest contributing factors to what makes you fat.