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Carbohydrate and Health
July 23rd, 2009
When a person consumes carbohydrates stimulates insulin secretion which promotes the capture by the muscles of most amino acids, except tryptophan. Thus, blood levels of tryptophan are unchanged with the intake of carbohydrates but not in proportion. The percentage of tryptophan on the total available amino acids in the blood, increases in direct proportion to the intake of CSR. Because tryptophan competes with other amino acids in its passage through the barrier into the brain, serotonin secretion is substantial over-the presence of its precursor (Wurtman and Wurtman, bulimia, obesity, anxiety, depression, hypoglycemia, prediabetes, candidiasis) .
Then, once the consumption occurs, the synaptic clefts are plenty of these neurotransmitters and the person begins to feel better (the effect of euphoria, but of lesser magnitude when compared to other psychoactive substances), as in the case of cocaine and other drugs.
Under this sobreexistencia a neurotransmitter produced by the self that sends the signal to stop production. This creates a chain that breaks with the natural balance of production and is the constant need of carbohydrates to get to the previous level (Vélez de Leon, 2003). Self-regulation can be explained according to Bernstein (1998) by applying the principles of “Theory homeostatic biochemistry of addiction.” According to her, the brain will attempt to compensate for the prolonged presence of certain neurotransmitters by reducing the effects or assumed to be constant in brain activity.
Thus, in the case of addiction to carbohydrates the brain tries to compensate for the presence of artificial neurotransmitters to decrease in normal production or decreasing the sensitivity of post-synaptic receptors. So is “tolerance”, where ever you need more of CRS to feel the same effect.
Bulimia
Bulimia is characterized by binge the central and consistent development of compensatory behaviors to counteract weight gain.
But what is the main type of food eaten during the binge? The DSM IV states:
Although the type of food that is consumed in the binge can be varied, is generally sweet and high calorie foods (like ice cream or cakes). But the binge is characterized more by an abnormal amount of food consumed by a yearning that eating a certain food, like carbohydrates. Individuals with bulimia nervosa eat more calories in one binge that individuals with bulimia nervosa in a meal, but the proportion of calories from protein, fatty acids and carbohydrates was similar.
On this point the analogy was inevitable between the obese people to be deleted during a carbohydrate diet who are uncontrollable desire to consume things “rich” (sweet) and eventually abandoned in the desperate consumption of carbohydrates and binge in bulimia. In both cases, there is a desperate search for food consumption followed by a “fault” in the first case by having abandoned the project of thinning and the second by the fear that is the fat.
Obesity
According to research conducted in the U.S., 75% of the obese population is addicted to carbohydrates, which gives us a parameter about its influence as a determinant of obesity.
Furthermore, the influence of the addiction to carbohydrates in the maintenance or not a diet or dietary recommendations in general is well known to specialists as it cut through the sugar and the CSR is always a break point and abandons any treatment.
