Obviously children suffer from poor nutrition too, they become obese, they can be malnourished and what not.
And yet to be it looks like often they are more “resistant” to bed food. They eat too much in one sitting? No stomach ache. They eat horribly for months? Blood test would still give decent results. They don’t eat vegetables and fruits? Still no problems pooing.
What makes them so flexible and robust in their diet?
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One thing that’s important to understand is that insulin resistance develops over time.
If you’re a kid and you eat a bunch of sugar, your body will excrete exactly as much insulin as your body needs to block bodyfat from releasing energy, send that sugar to your hungry cells, burn it for energy, get your blood sugar back to normal levels, and go right back to burning bodyfat for fuel. Eating 200 calories of candy feels exactly the same to your body in terms of satiety as eating 200 calories of balanced lunch.
But if you’ve been eating a lot of sugar for a long time your body becomes more resistant to your own insulin. Your body releases too much insulin for the amount of sugar in your blood stream. Your body stops releasing fat and burns the sugar for energy, but there’s still insulin in your blood, so your body can’t access bodyfat for fuel, so you get really really hungry (and often eat more snacks). As an insulin resistant adult, eating 200 calories of candy makes you feel more hungry than if you didn’t eat the candy, so you’ll overeat, whereas 200 calories of balanced food wouldn’t make you feel that way.
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