About high glycemic index - foods and diets

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Before talking about high GI, let's find out what glycemic index is.

What is Glycemic Index?

It is like a measurement of the carbs in the foods you eat. The purpose of GI is to help diabetics distinguish low and high glycemic index foods easily. In this way, you and your doctor would find it easy draw your own diabetic eating plan.

So, foods with glycemic index lower than 55 are considered low GI foods, those with 55-70 as foods with intermediate GI, and those higher than 70 are considered high GI foods.

Once you know the GI of the foods, it will be easily for you to choose foods that would cause less “peak-reaching” episodes of blood sugar, and put into your daily diabetic diet plan.

What is more, your blood glucose levels will be accurately improve from time to time. Not only. Doctors and dieters are using recently more often the GI for other purposes, such as losing weight too.

What is high glycemic index all about?

I want you to understand that foods with high GI rate cause your blood sugar levels raise quickly. They are like a “fast-energy-food-sugar-sources”. They are not good for your health, since many problems will spring out, from obesity, diabetes type 2, high cholesterol problems till heart disease or heart attack for worst.

However, there is still a battle between low and high glycemic index foods preferences in each of us, which still goes on in nowadays.

It is well known that some cultures prefer mostly high GI foods. Although these foods are dangerous, with the glycemic index appearance, it become more easier to find out the right way to turn on when making the choices.

Let's take an example. Potato is ranked as an high GI alternative. Whatever manner you will try to cook it, potato will still make your blood sugar levels rise quickly when digested.

So, mashed potatoes are the worst choice you ever make. Meanwhile, fried potatoes has an intermediate glycemic index, and represent better choice than mashed potatoes. If you want to shift to an other alternative rather than potato, you may consider sweet potato or yam, with the GI at nearly 50.

If you go through the glycemic index chart, you will discover a variety of foods, from moderate to high rating sugar compared to the lowermost ones. What you need to do is not to definitely avoid all the highs, but “find” the right portion size appropriate to you.

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