meaningful way while you’re
sitting at your desk at work,
watching television, or puttering
around the house. In other words,
it’s really easy to fill your tank up
with carbohydrates—but if you’re
not doing lots of high-intensity
activity, you’re not really using
much fuel!Your hormonal troubles start with
“overcarbsumption”: the chronic
overconsumption of supernormally
stimulating, nutrient-poor, carbohydrate-
rich foods.To begin with, a constant excess supply of
carbohydrates will tilt your metabolic
“preference” toward burning what’s most
plentiful—sugar—when fuel is needed. If
there is an overabundance of sugar, the sugar
takes precedence over fat as a source of