WHAT ARE LOW GLYCEMIC FOODS?

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How A Low Glycemic Diet Can Benefit You

Living in the Fast Food Lane

Fast food does not always refer to drive in restaurants. Here we will discuss foods that are fast to our body's digestive system and how they can hurt your chances to lose weight, and even harm your overall health! Persons who desire to experience permanent, healthy weight loss, and those with diabetes can benefit from eating foods according to a system of ranking called the Glycemic Index. In this index, food is ranked according to how fast the body breaks the food down. This is important because the speed at which the body breaks food down directly affects our health, and our ability to lose weight and keep it off.

Foods with a high-glycemic Index are known as fast carbohydrates (starches, breads, sugars) because they break down in the body quickly, and they quickly raise the blood sugar levels. This is not necessarily healthy, and may be deadly to some. This quick increase in blood sugar levels also triggers the body to store fat. This trigger subsequently stalls weight loss, and increases your chances to gain extra pounds of fat. It can also have the effect of increasing your food cravings.

How Carbohydrates Behave

To understand the Glycemic Index for (carbohydrate) foods, one must first understand that all carbohydrates are not created equal. All carbohydrates do have a few things in common though -- they all convert to glucose, and they all serve to make your body store the energy it needs. The difference is that some carbohydrates digest faster than others.

The carbohydrates that digest quickly have a high-glycemic index, and give you a quick burst of energy. Unfortunately, these types of carbohydrates also send a signal to your body to store fat. On the other hand complex, or slow carbohydrates (most fruits & vegetables) act to better stabilize your blood sugar level, resulting in a better night's sleep, getting you the rest you need, and decreasing unhealthy food cravings, which can result in better eating habits.

Making a Low-Glycemic Diet Work for You

Persons with diabetes should be concerned with making sure they stick to low-glycemic foods that digest more slowly, because their vital organs can be damaged. Among other complications, the affect of constantly spiking your blood sugar level requires the pancreas to work extra hard to handle all that sugar - and it can burn out! It's unhealthy to have high blood sugar too often, and for too long. When the pancreas finally stops working, then the person needs an artificial aid to push their blood sugar down to normal levels -- that's what the insulin injections are for.


The distinction between foods that have a high-glycemic index and those with a low-glycemic index is very important. If you have this knowledge, you can put it to work for you. In a low-glycemic diet, you would eat carbohydrates ranked at the low end of a glycemic index. These low-glycemic foods are digested more slowly than those at the higher end of the ranking. These foods give you a slower, steadier increase in your blood sugar level. This reaction has been known to depress food cravings, and will give you longer energy benefits.

The List Please

If you are going to try and follow a low-glycemic diet, using a chart of ranking is essential. One cannot assume to know which foods are lower on the list. For example, pretzels are considered a diet food by most, but their ranking is 81 while spaghetti is 41. A dieter might skip a plate of spaghetti and try to "behave" and eat pretzels instead, when in fact the spaghetti is the better choice! This is one time that being at the bottom of the list is a good place to be!

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