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 The super-sized society we've become has hit
epidemic proportions. According to a recent
report,
Almost
65 percent of Americans are considered
overweight and
31 percent of that group is
considered obese. You may know someone who is struggling to
lose weight and get healthy, or maybe you are trying to shed a few
pounds.
Does the following scenario sound familiar? You
go on a diet and experience some success, but then the weight comes
back. You try another with the same result, and now you're
frustrated and wondering if there are any diets that really work.
Don't get down on yourself. You haven't failed. According to the
Florida Department of Education, most people who diet gain the
weight back (and sometimes more) within a year. So, you haven't
failed the diet - the diet has failed you.
What is futility? Doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results. Try something that works this time - try
Transitions. Paired with a low-glycemic diet, it will provide you with the
results you're looking for.
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Transitions and a Low Glycemic
Index lifestyle
The glycemic index of food is a ranking of foods based on their immediate
effect on blood glucose (blood sugar) levels. Carbohydrate foods that breakdown
quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes. Their blood sugar
response is fast and high. Carbohydrates that breakdown slowly, releasing
glucose gradually into the blood stream, have low glycemic indexes.
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An awareness of foods' Glycemic Index can help you control your blood sugar
levels, and by doing so, may help you prevent heart disease, improve cholesterol
levels, prevent insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes, prevent certain cancers,
and achieve or maintain a healthy weight. A substantial amount of research
suggests a low GI diet provides these significant health benefits. So, it's
worth taking a look at the basic principles of a low GI way of eating.
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Carbohydrates that break down rapidly during digestion releasing glucose
rapidly into the bloodstream have a high GI; carbohydrates that break down
slowly, releasing glucose gradually into the bloodstream, have a low GI. For
most people, foods with a low GI have significant health benefits.
1 The usefulness of glycemic load is based on the idea that a
high glycemic index food consumed in small quantities would give the same effect
as larger quantities of a low glycemic index food on blood sugar. For example,
white rice is somewhat high GI, so eating 50g of white rice at one sitting would
give a particular glucose curve in the blood, while 25g would give the same
curve but half the height.
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A lower glycemic index suggests slower rates of digestion and
absorption of the sugars and starches in the foods and may also indicate greater
extraction from the liver and periphery of the products of carbohydrate
digestion.
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Between the two high-carbohydrate diets, lowering the
glycemic index doubled fat loss - this effect was strongest
in women. Participants on the high-protein, high GI diet was equally
effective for fat loss as the high carbohydrate, low GI diet, the
two had diverse effects on LDL (bad) cholesterol - the high protein,
high-GI group showed increased levels of LDL or 'bad' cholesterol,
while there were significant reductions in those on the high
carbohydrate, low-GI diet. However those on the high-protein, low GI
diet did not experience the same rise in total LDL cholesterol
suggesting the importance of low GI foods alongside a high meat
intake.
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The current validated methods use glucose as the reference
food, giving it a glycemic index value of 100 by definition. This has the
advantages that it is universal and it results in maximum GI values of
approximately 100. White bread can also be used as a reference food, giving a
different set of GI values (if white bread = 100, then glucose ? For people
whose staple carbohydrate source is white bread, this has the advantage of
conveying directly whether replacement of the dietary staple with a different
food would result in faster or slower blood glucose response. The disadvantages
with this system are that the reference food is not well-defined, and the GI
scale is culture dependent.
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In short, the goal should be to build a good plan including
the low Glycemic Index foods. This way, hunger is minimized, and there is less
tendency to "cheat" or overeat. Consequently, you can continue to lose body fat
or maintain your weight - once the excess pounds have been lost.
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Low glycemic index foods generally have less of an impact on
blood glucose levels. People who eat a lot of low glycemic index foods tend to
have lower total body fat levels.
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