| The glycemic index list allows you to count your food | | | | misplaced admiration sometimes at news like the fat |
| and eat it too! It is based on the fact that some | | | | cat story I read recently. However, this is a serious |
| carbohydrate content convert to glucose in the blood | | | | issue.It's largely due to our lifestyles... sedentary, rich |
| faster than others.If you have diabetes, are | | | | processed food dietary lifestyle. Someone described |
| overweight, or you have some kind of dietary | | | | people on the western diet as over-fed and |
| restriction because of your health, you know what a | | | | undernourished.It's time we started counting!I have |
| pain it is to have to "count" your food.People with | | | | recently embraced the glycemic index list. Now I |
| diabetes know the exchange list. You measure your | | | | choose only those foods described as low glycemic |
| morsels by exchanges or servings of 15-gram | | | | foods. In fact I make up my own low glycemic food |
| equivalents of carbohydrates. I hated that.But you | | | | list.Why?There is more on this in a couple articles on |
| have got to do it to keep your blood sugar under | | | | my website, but I have found it so educational and |
| control.Anyone who says they really love to be doing | | | | powerful when I know exactly how each food group |
| the math every time they go to eat their food is not | | | | affects my blood glucose level immediately after I |
| telling the truth. It's like this: for lunch, 4 servings (60 | | | | eat it.I don't mind "counting" my portions this way. I |
| grams) of carbs, 1 serving of meat, etc... | | | | choose some of my favorite low glycemic foods - |
| No-o-o-o!Compare the joy of eating whatever your | | | | foods that I like to eat, that are nutritious, and I eat |
| taste-buds dictate until you are filled and satisfied.Call | | | | well.What I have noticed is certainly amazing: Most of |
| that freedom. It is. But it has been leaving so many | | | | the items on my low glycemic index list are food |
| of us in the western world not being able to see our | | | | items that I had already recommend as part of the |
| toes without the use of a mirror because our | | | | anti-diabetes diet.The glycemic index list can definitely |
| well-fed stomachs get in the way. But what's worse | | | | make diabetes control by dietary regulation a more |
| is this...There is a worsening, frightening | | | | successful exercise.Bentley Thompson writes about |
| trendSixty-five percent of American adults 20 years | | | | lifestyle-related conditions such as diabetes, obesity, |
| of age and older are either overweight or obese, | | | | high cholesterol, and cardiovascular diseases. He |
| according CDC statistics.Diabetes, arthritis, obesity, | | | | advocates the anti-diabetes diet which he describes |
| and similar conditions are on the increase even among | | | | on his website. |
| the domesticated feline fellows too. We laugh with | | | | |