The body’s first option, when faced with a calorie deficit, is to look for glucose in the blood stream. If we have recently eaten a carbohydrate, which has been converted into glucose, this will be used first. The body can also look for fatty acids available in the blood stream. If no energy is readily available, the body then has glucose stored, as glycogen, for this purpose. If we follow the current dietary advice to “base our meals on starchy foods”, we will eat carbohydrates in quantity and with regularity and this should optimise our glycogen storage performance within the body. This
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