Posted on 01/05/2012 7:50:58 AM PST by Brookhaven
I concur with what Jack and Alloy say in their posts above - read up on the Glycemic Index.
Your mileage my vary, but for testimonials: attentiveness to the Glycemic Index on my father-in-law’s diet for 5 years led to his diagnosis of diabetes disappearing (doc said “he no longer appears diabetic”), and after that convinced me to modify my own diet, I lost 40 lbs over 12 months.
For your ref —> http://www.glycemicindex.com/about.php
What about my potato vodka?
Yes but the glucose in fruits and veggies are complex carbs and so are digested more slowly and the fruits and veggies at least are not junk foods.
A friend of mine said her doctor told her she was boraderline diabetic and to give up sugar and flour,and gluten. She did. She was not overwt but dropped about 25 lbs and has kept it off and is now a wee bit too thin but has energy, looks good, feels good and is 78 yrs young.
Then again, there are a lot of people that believe that they somehow violate the Law of Mass/Matter Conservation...
Juice is mostly sugar water. Best avoided other than as a treat - or as a treat with a shot of grain alcohol (for adults)! ;)
Chewing is part of feeling sated - so it is probably best to avoid any major caloric intake through drinking.
As a Californian I can assure you that Avocados are a GREAT snack!
Was and still is.
Yes. The only thing slowing down the sugar absorption is the amount of fat and fiber that is in/on it.
There is a sucker born every minute.
And nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of general public.
Looking at this...
http://onco.img.cas.cz/rhodo/results/pathway/kegg/rhodo-metabolism.png
It is hard for me to become convinced that I can somehow “fool” my body into not making fat out of excess calories from ANY source.
It goes round and round - and at no time does it violate the law of mass/energy conservation. If you take in excess energy - from whatever source - your body can and will turn it into lipids and store it as fat.
All protien and fat here with just a touch of carb once a week or two.
I saw the following video earlier this year about sugar and calories and it blew me away. Since I saw this, I consider the food pyramid to be a blatant attempt by the government to decrease our life expectancy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ZIKOQkTiM
While all carbohydrates are made of sections, which broken apart and completed with hydrogen atoms would be sugars, that does not mean “Carbohydrates are just sugar by another name”. Starch is metabolized very differently than simple or “complex” sugars (the latter being two bits each of which, again completed with a hydrogen atom on the broken bond) would be a simple sugar, and have very different effects on blood sugar, weight gain and the like. Some carbohydrate molecules are so large as to be indigestible by human beings (for instance cellulose) and are a major part of “dietary fiber” that, while not digested as food, apparently has various health benefits by virtue of absorbing substances in the digestive tract and helping food and food waste transit the digestive tract more efficiently.
The assertion “carbohydrates are just sugar by another name” is analogous to “polystyrene is just styrene by another name”: polystyrene is a non-toxic odorless solid plastic; sytrene is a mildly toxic, possibly carcinogenic liquid with a sweet smell, but the former is a string of the latter (stuck together by bonds where hydrogen atoms got knocked off).
ROTFLOL!
WAIT!
Simple Carb’s are the subject of your ire.
Complex Carb’s are differnet!
Think “vegetables”, which are “complex carb’s”
Cut the “simple” breads and starches, and increase the “complex”!
Who are you referring to?
FWIW, the 3-month test is the HbA1C, or the glucoselated hemoglobin test. Basically, hemoglobin in your blood “turns over” every 3 months - it’s all replaced naturally. The level of sugar is your blood is “recorded” by gloucose residue on the created hemoglobin. So, by checking the level of residue, one can determine the average blood sugar levels for the last 3 months.
At least, that’s what memory tells me - LOL.
Diabetics have high and lows with blood sugars the perfect food combos are proteins and complex carbohydrates, think glycemic load.
It was a huge diet fad in 2002. As many as one in eleven Americans was on the diet during that time.
Interest has wained dramatically over time because this fad diet was about as successful as other fad diet plans - i.e. for most people it didnt’ work more than temporarily if that.
I am absolutely AMAZED that you never heard of it!
The food pyramid brought to you by Archer-Daniels- Midland and Con-Agra. Back in 50’s and 60’s it was common knowledge that carbs were side dishes not the main course. Your main dishes were protein/fats, food the stuck to your ribs and filled you up.
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