Healthy Eating Does Not Mean Giving Up The Foods You Love
* The Problem with Insulin *
Losing weight is usually not easy but it may NOT be as hard as you think.
Most experts miss the point completely. When youre considering which
modern foods to avoid, its not about fat or sweetness Its more about a
foods starchiness. Its starches that have the highest scores on the
glycemic index.
The glycemic index measures how the carbohydrates in certain foods increase
your blood sugar. Foods with a high GI will spike your blood sugar. Foods
with a low GI have carbohydrates that break down slowly, releasing a more
manageable trickle of glucose into your bloodstream.(1)
Why is this important?
When your blood sugar rises, it triggers a release of insulin. Insulin is
not just the hormone problem in diabetes. Its role in normal metabolism is
to take care of blood sugar and build body fat. All other things being equal
more insulin will direct your body to store more of the calories you
consume as body fat.
Heres the point in its simplest form: Excess insulin makes you fat. We have
a nation of excess insulin secretors thats how we make ourselves so fat.
There are also related problems: As a reaction to the rapid release of
insulin, your blood sugar will often crash just as quickly as it spiked
from the high GI food. This sudden drop of blood sugar will make you crave
the same foods that spiked your blood sugar in the first place. If youre
not watching your diet, this cycle repeats endlessly. Before you know it,
youre fat and tired. If continued, youre sick with heart disease and
diabetes.
* Healthy Eating Doesnt Mean Giving Up the Foods You Love *
What are the worst offenders? Breakfast cereals, bagels, breads, white rice
and potatoes have some of the highest GI scores. Not sweets but starches.
Meat, fish, poultry, eggs and nuts continue to be some of the best foods you
can eat. They are very low on the glycemic index so enjoy that steak.
Plain yogurt and most kinds of fruit are also excellent choices. The
sweetness you taste from berries is a guilt-free pleasure because the total
load of carbs will be low and they rank very low on the glycemic index.
__To your good health, naturally, Dr. Jon Mandell .
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