Glycemic Index of Foods and Diets (low GI diets) :

What is a Low Glycemic index Diet ?

The Low Glycemic Diet is also called the "Low Glycemic Index Diet".
A low glycemic diet contains foods that are rated low on the glycemic index scale - 1 being a low glycemic food and 100 being a high glycemic food.

High Glycemic Foods :

After eating them, high glycemic foods have the following actions within your body ...

• they sharply increase blood sugar / glucose levels
• elevate insulin levels
• stimulate fat-storage
• can induce hyperactivity
• and could reduce sports performance

Low Glycemic Foods :

Low glycemic foods do not cause the above disruptions as they are broken down slowly within the body and so do not cause a sharp rise in blood sugar levels.

Following a Low Glycemic diet is beneficial to Slimmers and Dieters, Athletes, Diabetics and Hypoglycemics.

A low glycemic food diet is beneficial for ...

• helping to balance blood glucose / sugar levels
• keep insulin levels under control in the 'normal range'
• reducing excess body fat levels
• helping to regulate appetite and cravings
• and for helping to increase sports performance

If you're someone with diabetes or have cravings and cannot lose bodyfat, following the Low Glycemic Diet is well worth a try as it will help you to ...

• Lower your blood sugar levels
• Reduce "highs" and "lows" after and in between meals
• Help you lose weight
• Reduce your risk of heart disease over time

Benefits of Low Glycemic Diets :

Low glycemic food plans are not based on starvation or depravation diets.
Eating is a part of our lives and we should not have to sacrifice tasty foods in order to stay healthy. Low glycemic food plans focus on reducing ingestion of foods that elevate blood sugar levels and accompanying insulin which results in daily 'highs & lows' as well as making you fat by stimulating fat-storage.
We can't totally eliminate high glycemic foods from our diet but we can be aware of the glycemic reaction that foods have so we can make better choices.

Low glycemic foods do not stimulate food-craving hormones like Neuropeptide Y and Lipoprotein Lipase.
Stimulation of these hormones can cause chemically triggered cravings for food and uncontrolled eating binges.
Low glycemic food plans have been proven to reduce incidence of Type II diabetes and to help control Type I and II diabetes, hypoglycaemia and hypertension.

With some body types, switching from high glycemic foods to low glycemic foods will result in a significant loss of body fat without changing daily calorie intake.
For optimum health, select a wide variety of proteins, vegetables, fruits and foods daily.

How to test your response to high and low glycemic foods :

• Test your blood sugar levels just before a meal
• Eat a meal containing 2 or 3 servings of high glycemic index foods
• Between 45 to 60 minutes after you started eating, test your blood sugar levels again and record the results.
  You will see an increase in blood sugar levels for the meal
• The following day, for the same meal, substitute equal amounts of low glycemic foods for the higher glycemic foods you ate the previous day
• Check your blood sugar levels in the same way
• Now compare the two readings to see how the high and low glycemic index foods affected your blood sugar in different ways

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