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Low Carbohydrate Stupidity
By Stephen Bucaro
The latest buzz word for today’s diet scams and prepackaged food rip-offs is "low carb".
"Eat all the fat and meat you want and still lose weight." Yeh, when your cold dead body
starts to dry up!
Let's make one thing clear, without carbohydrates you die. Carbohydrates; fruits, vegetables,
and grains provide the fiber, sugar, and electrolytes your body needs to survive. Without
these vital nutrients, you die.
How did this carbohydrate stupidity get started? It started as the result of confusion
about a new discovery called the glycemic index.
When you eat carbohydrates, your blood sugar level rises. Excessive blood sugar
is not good for your body. To clear the sugar from your bloodstream, your pancreas releases
insulin. This causes the sugar to be stored in your fat cells.
The fact is that you need some sugar in your blood because that’s where your energy comes from.
Without blood sugar, neither your muscles nor your brain will work. But excess blood
sugar is a problem.
New research has discovered that eating certain refined carbohydrates causes your
blood sugar to rise much higher and stay high longer than eating whole carbohydrates.
Note: As you age, your pancreas becomes less efficient at producing insulin. As a result,
sugar is not effectively cleared from the bloodstream, resulting in type 2 diabetes (often
called adult-onset diabetes). More than half of the 16 million Americans estimated to have
diabetes are over age 60. Type 2 diabetes can usually be controlled through diet and exercise.
The gylcemic index uses the blood sugar rise caused by eating pure sugar as a guide for rating
other foods. Pure sugar has a glycemic index of 100. To stay thin and healthy, you need to avoid
foods with a gylcemic index higher than about 50.
The gylcemic index of thousands of foods has been measured by monitoring thousands of peoples
blood sugar after eating the food, and then calculating an average. The results have been
published and you can find gylcemic tables on the Web.
What are the offending foods?
1. Any food made of refined flour; bread, cake, cookies, cereal, crackers, donuts, etc.
2. White rice.
3. Potatoes.
The above foods will cause your blood sugar to rise rapidly and stay high for a long period.
If the above foods are a regular part of your diet, you will be gaining weight uncontrollably.
Avoid these foods and your weight will gradually fall back to a normal zone.
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