Blood sugar - Fats connection

Hello!

Hope you are all doing well and enjoying your detox.

One comment that has come back is how removing alcohol has really helped balance blood sugar.

This is because alcohol (and caffiene) stimulate our adrenal system to release the hormones that stimulate the liver to release glucose. So for anyone with blood sugar problems cutting out alcohol and caffiene as well as sugar - while you get things under contro - is really vital.

It is also important to add in one key nutrients - fats. Most of us don't have enough of the right fats in the diet and too many of the wrong fats. So maknig sure you are getting omegas 3 and 6 from hemp and flax oils and oily fish. Eating healthy saturated fats from animal sources and using extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil. Then cutting out all cheap seed or vegetable oils and avoiding fried and baked foods that are cooked in them. As these are poisonous!!

I saw an advert ourside a fish and chip shop in Cornwall that said - all cooking done in vegetable oil. Like that was a plus! NO! This is a health disaster - if you heat up vegateble oils to these high temperatures they become highly poisonous.

Anyway, if we are not getting enough of a nice variety of hard fats and liquid oils then our bodies will be deficient. But our bodies know that sugar is the food most readily turned into fat, so it will send us off craving sugar, int he absence of a healthy amount of fat in the diet.

This is so key if you are trying to loose weight but battle sugar cravings.