Find Useful Information About Weight Loss Using Glycemic Index
Why should you learn about glycemic index diet system?
Glycemic index (GI) based weight management systems are the only ones which have been scientifically proven to reduce your appetite and keep you satisfied longer while allowing you to lose weight. Moreover the low GI diets help people with types one and twodiabetes improve their blood sugar{/spin] and lipid (fat) levels.
What is Glycemic Index?
carbs in any food will be absorbed into your blood stream as glucose.
How is high blood glucose bad for you?
Muscle can burn both sugar and lipids (fats) but the brain can only burn glucose using oxygen (aerobically). Note, the brain needs just the right amount of glucose in the blood stream to function well.
Too much glucose leads to becoming hyper and too little blood glucose makes you tired and drowsy and if it goes too low you’ll faint.
How does insulin control blood sugar level?
Insulin is a hormone which is secreted by the pancreas and manages blood glucose levels. When the blood glucose level goes up, the pancreas secrets Insulin into the blood stream which makes most cells to burn glucose rather lipids and to store the glucose as glycogen in the liver and muscle. This lowers the blood glucose level.
What is a good way to eat?
The glycemic index values published are based on eating single ingredients and thereforewhen you eat a real meal of different foods, the glycemic index is not the same as the average of all the foods you eat. If you begin with low glycemic index foods and slowly go to the higher GI foods you end up affecting your blood sugar much less than if you eat the high glycemic index foods first. So eat the protein and low GI vegetables such as broccoli first and later move to the higher glycemic index portions of your meal. And of course eating slowly is the best way of eating and allows you to stop when you have had enough.
So choose a low glycemic index diet and eat slowly while increasing your activity and you’ll notice that your weight will start going down while you become more healthy and are satisfied with smaller portions.
Understand to check with your doctor and/or nutritionist before undergoing any new weight reduction systems. Also, understand that no weight reduction systems is a silver bullet and a weight reduction systems which may work for you may not work for someone else. However in general glycemic index weight loss system is one of the best weight reduction systems for most especially if you are prediabetic or obese.
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