Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Cut down on refined carbohydrates

I love desserts, bread, noodles and all the sugar stuff....collectively known as refined carbohydrates. Sounds cool...refined indeed except the impact on the body is a bit
"uncouth".

All these sugary stuff are broken by my digestive system into glucose which is metabolised into carbon dioxide, water and energy. I get energy , that is the good news ! The not so good news is that if most of the carbon dioxide remains as carbonic acid, acidic wastes will pile up inside me. Yeeks ! I am told if our body gets too acidic , it is bad as our body will offload the alkaline substances from our bone, including calcium and magnesium to "correct" our acidic condition. Our metabolism of essetntial fatty acids also gets disrupted, thereby leading to imbalance in our hormone profile.

2 comments:

Murray said...

Hi Healthhaven. Interesting to read your thoughts on healthy foods - I totally agree!

I love your avatar.

Good luck with your blog.

ray said...

wow, and I am here in Jakarta eating fried noodles etc. must try healthier food in the evening.