Healthy Weight Loss

Healthy Weight Loss
Glycemic Index

All food, whether it is a lovely bowl of Swiss chard or a heaping slice of melted cheese pizza, is broken down in the body and then used as energy. If the body is not using a ton of energy at the time, then extra may be converted into glycogen and stored for later use. But, if there is too much glycogen already on board, the body will convert the extra into fat. The body releases insulin, which is the traffic cop, telling everything where it needs to go. The more insulin that gets flooded into the system, the more likely the excess food is to be stored as fat.

Every food affects the level of sugar in the blood differently. This is known as the Glycemic response and is measured by the Glycemic Index. Foods that rank high on the Glycemic Index will cause blood sugar spikes, while low GI foods will not. The more high GI foods that you eat, the more likely you will be to gain weight.

A specific food always has the same GI score, no matter who is eating it. But the difference might be in how a person's body processes the food and reacts to it after it has been processed. Some people can eat a fairly substantial amount of higher GI foods without it affecting their blood glucose levels, while others are fairly sensitive to them. That difference is the Glycemic threshold and it can be one of the most important things you can learn for your weight loss efforts. Once you know how much of certain foods that you can eat, you can devise a plan that keeps you from crossing your threshold, and that means less weight gain. You won't have to live on salads and carrots and other bunny food. You can eat regular foods; you will just have more knowledge about how much of them you can have.

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