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An addiction to refined flour
In the diet of any athlete carbohydrates play an important paper, but they can also pass a bill if we consume them without control and form the less adequate, since they may end up in our bodies generate a dependency that is known as carbohydrate addiction, something that succeeds more than we think and it can have serious consequences for the organism.
Surely more than one occasion we felt the imminent need to ingest carbohydrates coming from flour. This situation arises because the body shows a false demand for energy which has a perfect physiological explanation.
The refined flour is mainly formed by the carbohydrates, which after ingestion is converted to glucose by the body. The fact that glucose reserves glucogen body increase and therefore we have an energy. But refined flour that increased glucose is high, since they are digested quickly. To offset this increase the body produces the hormone insulin, which is responsible for carrying the glucose to the cells and transform energy, or if it does not accumulate in the form of fat.
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