الجمعة، 14 فبراير 2014

Understanding Why Low Glycemic Snacks And Foods Benefit Your Health

By Jerri Perry


Choosing the right kinds of foods to eat can be critical to your health and state of mind. Those that have the correct effect on your blood sugar should also be preferred. Low glycemic snacks and foods are those that can be eaten without an immediate or rapid rate of sugar being released into the blood stream. In general, due to this reason and others, many of these foods are considered as the most healthy to eat.

Each type of food has a GI, also referred to as the glycemic index. In numbers, the GI tells us how quickly or slowly the food will increase our blood sugar levels. The numbers range from 0 to 100, with 100 being the worst and 0 being the best. Foods under 50 are generally considered as good, and those between 56 and 69 are in the middle category.

Edibles with lower GI should be selected by persons who have been diagnosed with diabetes, because their bodies are unable to cope with sugar intake. Persons who are at risk of becoming diabetic will also need to carefully watch their diet and select the proper foods. However, no matter the condition of your health, a lower GI diet is best.

A lower GI diet will help someone to lose weight, as the foods that fall into the 'good' category do not contain many calories. These types of foods are also considered as healthy for many other reasons, such as for the vitamins and minerals that they provide. A lower GI diet can be especially necessary for children as well.

Young children who are not filled with artificial sugars and flavorings are calmer and less hyperactive. This means that they are more ready to learn, listen and behave. A child on a serious sugar high may find it incredibly difficult to concentrate at school, and may be restless. There is also some evidence that children with learning disabilities may benefit from healthier diets.

The more processed a food is the more likely that it will fall on the high GI list. Even if you do find some prepackaged snack food with a lower GI, it is still not necessarily healthy due to its high content of salt, calories or saturated fat. One can also not put things such as bread in the same category. Whole wheat bread is better than white bread.

Carefully choose the types of lower GI foods to eat if you are watching your weight. Some may not be ideal for this purpose even if they have a lower GI, such as pizza and candy bars. As a diabetic, the point will be more for simply eliminating sugar from the diet.

Eggs, cheese, milk, other dairy products, fruits and vegetables will all be considered as low glycemic snacks. Meat, fish, nuts and seeds and similar things are not even counted on the GI because of the tiny amount of carbohydrates in them. A little bit of research will show you the types of foods that are best.




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