The GI Diet

The GI Diet

Are you working with a diet or simply to lose weight or want to know how you another way to lose weight?

GI stands for Glycemic Index. The GI value indicates the speed at which your food digests and converts into glucose, the energy of your body. Low GI foods are slowly and steadily in your digestive system broken. You therefore a more full feeling! Do you want to lose weight, then you would especially foods with a low GI diet, eating a low calorie, that is, low sugar and low fat. The GI diet is healthy for everyone, so the whole family can participate, you do not own to cook!

 

Contrary to the popular Atkins diet, the carbohydrate intake is minimized, a low GI diet makes distinctions between types of carbohydrates. It avoids a high GI foods like white bread and concentrated sugars which are rapidly absorbed and insulin and glucose levels increase. Instead, emphasis is placed on carbohydrates that are slowly released into the body as whole grains, most fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts