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A Low Glycemic Diet Primer

Low Glycemic Diet 101

Before plunging into the details and the inner workings of a low glycemic diet let's look at why you would even want to take on a low carbo diet.

What are people really looking for when seeking to lose weight? An easy quick diet. A diet that is really easy to follow and includes a daily meal plan. You don't have to buy specialty foods, count calories or points. A simple proportion for your metabolic body type makes it easy to remember.

Why Follow A Low Glycemic?

When transitioning to this easy low glycemic diet plan our students and others have reported these results:

√ When you eat right for your body type you feel great.
√ Not only do you drop pounds, but inches too.
√ The fat just melts away forever while you build lean muscle.
√ Nagging cravings are flat out eliminated.
√ You will break the craving/binging cycle once and for all.
√ Your appetite will be under YOUR control.
√ You will eat by design not reactively or emotionally.
√ You will sleep better and more soundly, waking refreshed.
√ Discover, unlock, explode your inner source of energy.
√ Learn what foods work best for your genetic metabolic type.
√ You can see and feel the difference in a few short weeks.

A quick side note - the battle rages on as to whether a low carbohydrate diet plan is really a diet or a lifestyle change? You should know our answer to that question as you work your way through this site.

Very Simple, Easy to Follow

While originally intended to help diabetic patients control their glucose levels, the Glycemic Index was soon used to help individuals trying to lose weight to control their eating habits and hunger. The key is to decrease the fast breakdown of foods into glucose. Glucose is the natural source of energy for the body. It produces a rush of energy when the food is broken down, and then when it is burned up, it leaves a feeling of hunger and fatigue.

The Low Glycemic Diet, brought to America in 1997, was found to have positive effects with heart health, cholesterol and weight loss. Based upon eating carbohydrates that do not raise your blood sugar abnormally eating a low carbohydrate diet proved to benefit non-diabetics. It is essential to eat a balance of protein, carbohydrate and fats for your body type. Instances where the balance is not kept according to your metabolic body typing one can still experience weight gain. You might actually trigger the “Thrifty Gene” if not eating in the proper balance. Learn about the “Thrifty Gene” here.

Keeping your blood sugar level turns a fat storing body into a fat burning body.

Once you have learned your metabolic body type keeping the protein-carb-fat balance is easy. One of the best tools around to understand how a food affects blood sugar is the Glycemic Index. You can learn all about this useful index here.

A carbohydrate is a carbohydrate is a carbohydrate, right? Wrong! Fats and proteins have little or no effect on your blood sugar, so when we talk about the glycemic index we are talking about carbohydrates (fruits, veggies, grains…basically anything other than protein and fat).

Low glycemic foods are digested more slowly than high glycemic foods; therefore they do not elevate your blood sugar levels above normal and put excess strain on your pancreas.

Learn about the Glycemic Index for a Low Glycemic Diet

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