02/09/2026
Too much sugar 🍩🥨🧇NOT too much health fat 🥑 🧈or too much clean protein 🥩🧈causes heart disease 🫀🩺 Cardin Center for Wellness
The over-consumption of carbohydrates, not fat, is what leads to heart disease.
Think of your body like a car that can run on two fuels: sugar (carbs) or fat.
When you eat a lot of carbohydrates, bread, pasta, cereal, soda, sweets, your body turns them into glucose (sugar) in your blood. You are using carbs for fuel.
Your body must keep blood sugar in a very tight range. Too much sugar in the blood is dangerous. So your body releases a hormone called insulin to quickly move that sugar out of the blood.
Here’s where the problem starts.
Step 1: Too much sugar = too much insulin
If you constantly eat high carb foods or drinks, your body has to release insulin over and over and over again, all day long.
Insulin’s main job is:
“Get this sugar out of the blood and store it.”
But there’s only so much sugar your muscles and liver can store.
Once they’re full, insulin has only one place left to put the extra sugar. It turns it into fat.
Not just fat under your skin, but fat in places it doesn’t belong.
Step 2: Fat starts building up in the liver and bloodstream
The liver now has to deal with all this extra sugar being turned into fat. It packages that fat into tiny particles called triglycerides and sends them into the bloodstream.
This is when your blood starts carrying too much fat around all the time. That fat can get stuck in the walls of your blood vessels.
Step 3: Damage to blood vessels
High blood sugar is sticky and irritating to blood vessels. It causes tiny damage to the inside lining of your arteries.
Your body tries to “patch” that damage, like putting tape over a leak.
The patch is made from:
• Fat (triglycerides)
• Cholesterol
• Inflammatory cells
This patch is called plaque.
Step 4: Plaque builds up and hardens
Over time, more sugar = more insulin = more fat in the blood = more damage = more plaque.
The arteries (the tubes that carry blood to your heart) start to:
• Get narrower
• Get stiff and hard
This is called atherosclerosis.
Step 5: Blocked artery = heart attack
If a plaque breaks open, a blood clot can form and block the artery.
When blood can’t reach part of your heart: you have a heart attack.
It’s not “fat in food” that causes heart disease.
It’s too much sugar and carbohydrates for too many years, which leads to:
High insulin → fat made in the liver → damage to arteries → plaque → heart disease.
A simple way to remember it:
Too many carbs over time turns your blood into: a sugary, sticky, fatty, inflamed highway and that’s what damages the heart and causes heart disease. 😕
