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• The body handles excess glucose consumption through several well-defined metabolic pathways, such as glycogen storage and de novo lipogenesis (creation of new fat).
• But you also don’t like an empty Glycogen Wallet. So you keep the Glycogen Wallet filled, which prevents you from accessing the Fat Bank. In other words, before you can even begin to burn fat, you start feeling hungry and anxious because your glycogen is becoming depleted.
• Since 2007, 22 million Chinese were newly diagnosed with diabetes—a number close to the population of Australia.5 Things are even more shocking when you consider that only 1 percent of Chinese had type 2 diabetes in 1980.6 In a single generation, the diabetes rate rose by a horrifying 1160 percent. Sugar, more than any other refined carbohydrate, s...
• Daily consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks not only carries a significant risk of weight gain, but also increases the risk of developing diabetes by 83 percent compared to drinking less than one sugar-sweetened drink per month.
• Diabetes correlates with sugar, not calories.