On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 12

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last: the combination of fat and sugar

today: insulin and blood vessels

A rising BMI is not much more than a visible sign of a constant stress of the regulatory circuit system in terms of an oversupply of fuel, known as food.

The pancreas gland – like the whole body – is set to alternating phases of work and recreation. Each and every Code red! Alarm is a remarkable stress for the pancreas.

As this gland is a creature of polite character, it tries to cope with the high expectations high energy food is constantly applying. The pancreas starts to work hard, harder, hardest. – The next step is forseeable.

The pancreas will work until a complete nervous breakdown, called diabetes mellitus type II.

The phase shortly before the complete crash is a phase showing the exhaustion of all members of the system.

Insulin production rises to a higher level to be able to shovel all this glucose from our blood to our cells, the cells start to feel tired of constantly open their doors for more fuel to stock inside and they start shaking their heads saying no, sorry, not today, if a insulin ship is ringing the doorbell.

Glucose starts to hang around in the blood vessels: diabetes mellitus II.

Well, Glucose is rushing through our blood vessels. So what? Glucose is not willing to run all the time.

The glucose will find itself a set of chairs to sit down. The chairs are called: the walls of the blood vessels. We can imagine the next step.

If glucose clings to the walls of the vessels these walls become thicker and loose their flexibility. The blood vessels suffer. Suffering blood vessels have problems above all to do their job for two mostly important organs:

our brain, our heart.

Tomorrow: blood vessels, nerves and diabetes mellitus II