Weight loss and glycemic foods.Having trouble achieving weight loss? Then you should know the importance of glycemic foods. How does your diet look, is it anything like this?. Breakfast,--- Toast and a quick cup of coffee with possibly 2 spoons of sugar on the run.--- Lunch a quick sandwich. Probably a cup of coffee and biscuits for morning and afternoon break. ---Then how about pasta for the evening meal? YOU ARE TRYING TO SURVIVE ON CARBOHYDRATES!. Therefore you need to understand about glycemic foods. Have a look at a glycemic index food list. Carbohydrates are a lot cheaper and are probably very appealing, that's why they are so popular but they are a MAJOR CAUSE OF OUR BEING OVERWEIGHT. They maybe cheap and generally enjoyable like sugary things, but you can see their real price on your bathroom scales if you are game to look. Carbohydrates have to be converted into sugar before your body can use them. That is no problem for your body, it just handles the carbs with stomach acid which turns them into sugar. You don't have to be a rocket scientist or university professor to understand what the glycemic index is all about.it's quite simple. It's about the SPEED at which the carbohydrates are converted into sugar which plays such a big part in our weight loss problems. LOW GLYCEMIC FOODS GET CONVERTED INTO SUGAR AT A MUCH SLOWER RATE. Things like beer get converted to sugar very rapidly, therefore beers glycemic index is very high. The GI value, or as it has now become known, the glycemic index is a rating system of carbohydrates according to the SPEED with which they raise the blood sugar after eating. Hi GI foods rapidly raise blood sugar whereas low GI do so at a slower rate. Low GI have benefits for weight control in several ways because they reduce appetite and control hunger. I suggest you look at a glycemic index food chart. If you can slow the conversion of carbohydrates to sugar their is a much greater chance of your body being able to use the sugar and therefore not convert it into fat. I reccomend you try and settle for a low glycemic diet. Because your body can only use a limited amount of sugar in any given time, it has to do something with the surplus. What does your body do it do with what it can't immediately use?. It doesn't want to waste it, SO IT IS CONVERTED INTO FAT and stored for future use. This was a very handy arrangement a few thousand years ago as it helped us survive in the lean times. Over the intervening years when our ancestors were living mainly off proteins from fishing and hunting we didn't have this problem, but now when we are living mainly off carbohydrates,--- it's a far different story.
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