"I love you like a fat kid loves cake". Some lovesick rapper wrote these words of wisdom for a woman who was just a jail cell away. But it's true. We fat kids do love our cake. Rather, we "smooth perpetual bulkers" do love our carbs. And there's nothing wrong with that. Carbohydrates are a terrific source of energy, and an essential building block of life. But, like all things in life, you CAN have too much of a good thing. And that quickly becomes a bad thing - insulin resistance.

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Do you diet and eat clean, complete your cardiovascular exercise religiously, hit the weights hard, yet still cannot seem to shake that 'soft' look? If so, you may simply be one of those very unfortunate individuals that is highly insulin sensitive. In other words, your body cannot process carbohydrates as well as your peers. You are healthy, and you train hard, and your body fat levels are low. But you just do not have that chiseled look. You still look soft.

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By Dane C. Fletcher

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Insulin in Body Building

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BOSTON—Findings published in PLoS ONE explain the myriad effects of naringenin, a flavonoid found in grapefruit as a non-toxic, naturally occurring LXR-alpha inhibitor (2010;5(8): e12399. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0012399). Naringenin has been shown to normalize lipids in diabetes and hypercholesterolemia. Disruption of lipid and carbohydrate homeostasis is an important factor in the development of prevalent metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and atherosclerosis. As a result, small molecules that could reduce insulin dependence and regulate dyslipidemia could have a dramatic effect on public health.

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The liver is the one organ of the human body to which bodybuilders should pay the most attention. The liver is the body’s second-largest organ, second only to the skin. Its functions include insulin and glycogen breakdown, cholesterol synthesis, and toxin breakdown. This is especially vital for bodybuilders, as many aspects of the bodybuilding lifestyle present challenges to liver function.

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"I love you like a fat kid loves cake". Some lovesick rapper wrote these words of wisdom for a woman who was just a jail cell away. But it's true. We fat kids do love our cake. Rather, we "smooth perpetual bulkers" do love our carbs. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Carbohydrates are a terrific source of energy, and an essential building block of life. But, like all things in life, you CAN have too much of a good thing. And that quickly becomes a bad thing – insulin resistance.

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Perhaps at one point or another, most of us have heard the term “food is a drug”. Considering all of the chemicals within the sport of bodybuilding, and in our world in general today, many of you may likely have dismissed this statement as fraudulent or ridiculous. But make no mistake, the phrase is much truer than you can imagine. That’s because eating any kind of food, any time, sets off a chemical reaction within the body that at least involves digestion, and at most, involves a lot more.

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