Women Over 40: Blood Sugar Makes You Fat And What To Do About It

Are you a women over 40? Your hormone system changes. If you want to lose weight permanently as a woman over 40 you should give some attention to insulin. It can prevent your ability to lose weight permanently and make you fat instead. Do you know why?

Insulin is released by the pancreas- an organ playing a major role in digestion and governing blood sugar. There are many hormones raising your blood sugar, including glucagon, adrenalin and growth hormones. Many health risks, such as diabetes are connected with high blood sugar. So we have numerous hormones raising your blood sugar level, and raising health risks.

Only one hormone assists you to have lower blood sugar levels- insulin. So insulin is extremely essential to balance your blood sugar level because it reduces your blood sugar.

After eating, sugar is entering the blood stream- for example as a consequence of digesting starchy foods. To deliver energy to your body, this blood sugar needs to go into the cells of your body. And that's precisely what insulin does: It encourages the transfer of sugar from the blood into the cells.

And: Insulin does much more. It aids to get fatty acids from the blood into the fat cells where they are stored. In addition, it prevents burning fat. Insulin assists the body to store fat as energy required for starvation periods. Nowadays, we do not face this threat any longer- but the fat storing mechanisms are still in place.

Too much insulin contributes to belly fat, being overweight and diabetes, disorder in fat metabolism, heart attacks and strokes.

The hormone system in women over 40 can get out of balance much easier than in women of younger age. You need to pay attention to your insulin level if you are a woman over 40. Two essential mistakes in eating lead to too much insulin:

1. High glycemic index (GI). The insulin level rises higher and quicker if digested sugar can enter the blood fast. The gycemic index (GI) measures how easy sugar from digestion gets in the blood. Some popular foods with a high GI are most sweets, white bread, cakes or sweet fruits. In general, the more refined a food is, the higher it's GI is. Avoid foods containing syrup, fructose, saccharose etc.
   


2. When you consume artificial sweeteners your brain gets the message "sugar has entered the blood". The insulin level rises, and, as you know by now, you will burn less fat because of that. Diet sodas can not contribute to losing weight permanently because of this effect.
   

If you eat too much fat and have a high insulin level, the fat goes right into fat cells- making it impossible to lose weight permanently over 40.

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