People say they have sweat after a low-calorie diet legs swell, and at the waist they are heard. The type of carbohydrates are to blame.
I confirm. Carbohydrates are to blame, but this is already a disease. It is called "fast recovery syndrome" or "refeeding syndrome".
It's not even about carbohydrates, but insulin.
If you limit yourself for a long time in food, and especially in carbohydrates, then the level of insulin in the blood remains constantly low.
When then it comes time to take up the mind and eat off, then the increase in the amount of carbohydrates in the diet increases the level of insulin in the blood.
During fasting, the cells of our body forget how to react correctly to insulin and allow it to drive too much phosphate from the blood. This is how insulin works.
It is important to understand that we are talking about people who have limited themselves in food for a long time. God knows what they did with themselves there, but their phosphorus reserves are often depleted. And then they suddenly decide to get out of their diet, or a fun holiday comes, and they gorge themselves on carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates are quickly broken down to glucose, glucose is absorbed into the bloodstream, and a lot of insulin is released into this glucose. Insulin drives the remaining phosphorus from the blood into the cells, and the fun begins.
Little phosphorus in the blood
Various organs begin to suffer from a lack of phosphorus. Including the heart.
The fact is that phosphorus is included in the composition or participates as an intermediary in the work of various energy substrates in our body. Including in the heart. And it turns out that the heart suffers from a lack of energy.
The situation turns out to be unusual. The heart receives oxygen and receives nutrients, but this whole kitchen does not work like our kitchen with flames over a gas stove. No. In the heart, glucose and fat do not burn like a blue flame. They are oxidized there in a cunning way, and phosphorus compounds are very important in this matter. And the phosphates from the blood have already scattered like frightened mice under the influence of insulin.
And so the heart suffers and in its grief can sink to the very real heart failure. Have you presented? You can die by gorging yourself on a low-calorie diet.
Heart of anorectics
Remember anorexia story? There, the victims had a very low pulse. Sometimes as much as 25 per minute. Well, when they start to eat off, or they start to be saved, the heart revives, and the pulse rises. Only it should grow up to 50 - 60. If the heart rate is above 70 per minute, then it is very suspicious in terms of heart damage as part of the refeeding syndrome. Type 70 is already tachycardia for them.
Edema
That same insulin spike in response to carbohydrates can disrupt kidney function. For some reason, they begin to actively absorb sodium back. If you have not forgotten, then we are with you already discussed this habit characteristic of the kidneys - they first filter a lot of useful things into the urine, and then quickly suck it back.
So they can suddenly suck sodium back. Sodium pulls water with it, and edema is obtained.
Therefore, when people eat off after a hunger strike, their feet may begin to swell. This would be a bad sign.
Briefly speaking
There will be swelling from carbohydrates, but this is already a disease. In a peaceful life, legs do not swell from an extra roll.
