Once I saw a program on Japanese TV about a korean man living literally on junk "simple" carbohydrates. His refrigerator was full of HFCS soft drinks like Sprite and he always dined rice topped with chocolate. His hobby was badbington - a light sport and he was something over 60. When they did a blood test his markers looked like someone in his twenties...
About the spikes, they may be quite important to synchronize the clocks in the body. It has been shown that the cenetarians retain strong melatonin spikes during the daily sleep cycle while the people with chronic diseases have low melatonin and the expressions of their clock genes in different organs are out of sync.
Hans, I usually eat some sweet fruits like banana or apple in between the basic 3 meals a day, do you think this may be a problem? |