09/17/2021
🍌 And the most important point is that bananas are ideal when it comes to reversing insulin resistance.
🤔 How many bananas do you eat per day on average?
🥭 In the Mastering Diabetes book, chapter 6 is titled “Your Carbohydrate Master Class” and explains why fruit should be your friend. Here are some bullet points explaining why fruit is not your enemy:
🍓 All carbohydrate-rich foods do not cause insulin resistance—differentiating between the type of carbohydrate is essential in understanding a food’s metabolic effect.
🥨 Refined grains, refined sweeteners, and artificial sweeteners can overload your liver with excess glucose in a short period of time, causing a cascade of adverse metabolic reactions in many tissues.
🍠 Carbohydrate-rich whole foods including fruits, starchy vegetables, legumes, and intact whole grains come pre packaged with a collection of micronutrients that protect against insulin resistance, rapid blood glucose elevations, and the secretion of excess insulin.
🥝 Carbohydrates in plant-based whole foods are contained in a three-dimensional matrix with fat and protein, as well as vitamins, minerals, fiber, water, antioxidants, and phytochemicals that slow the rate of glucose absorption into your blood.
🌱 Micronutrients are essential compounds that act as information that tissues use to digest, absorb, transport, uptake, and oxidize nutrients from the food you eat.
🌱 Phytochemicals are found only in plants and are some of the most powerful disease-fighting compounds in all of nature.
🌱 Contrary to popular belief, your liver does not convert carbohydrates into fatty acids via DNL in large quantities unless you massively overeat carbohydrates to the tune of 4,500 calories per day for 7–10 days at a time.
💪 Your brain, liver, and muscle have a strong preference for glucose as a fuel, and are capable of utilizing glucose very effectively when you eat whole carbohydrate-rich foods.
