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Post-Binge biology.

What happens to your body when you overeat?

And eight things to do afterward.

Tis the season for consumption.

Cookies, cakes, and pies abound.

Feasts happen on a regular basis. Candy is given and received as gifts,

and there are parties immeasurable, at work with family, with friends, where calorie-dense, rewarding food is handed out like, well, candy.

The holiday season is a practice in overeating, and it can be very hard to avoid.

You may not want to even avoid it.

There's something to be said for letting loose now and again on special occasions, especially

when holiday cheer is in the air.

But what happens to your body when you overeat? And what can you do about it?

The type of overeating most people do across the holidays is high sugar, high fat, and relatively

low protein. These are your cakes and cookies, your brownies and fudge, your pie for breakfast. This is the worst kind of overfeeding

you can do. Research shows that just six days of high sugar, high fat, low protein overfeeding

rapidly increases fat deposition in the liver and muscle. Seven days of overfeeding reduces

whole body insulin sensitivity, inhibits

glucose clearance, and impairs endothelial function. If you keep doing it, say, over the course

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