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The most important habit to boost your health, transform your body and shed at least 10 years of your age, is refraining form sugar and industrial fructose (high-fructose corn syrup). The second most important habit to boost your health, transform your body and shed at least 10 years of your age is playing the carbs game. You are maybe confused with low-carbs/high-protein, high-carb/low-fat, and the glycemic index. Hence, it’s important to understand the Glycemic Index (GI) concept and implement it in a reasonable and a simple way. But before we use this terminology let’s look at the GI definition. The glycemic index is a ranking of carbohydrates based on their immediate effect on blood sugar levels. It compares foods gram for gram of carbohydrate. Carbohydrates that breakdown quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes. The blood glucose response is fast and high. Carbohydrates that break down slowly, releasing glucose gradually into the blood stream, have low glycemic indexes. The glycemic index (GI) ranks carbohydrates on a scale from 0 to 100 according to the extent to which they raise blood sugar levels after eating. Foods with a high GI are those which are rapidly digested and absorbed and result in marked fluctuations in blood sugar levels. Low-GI foods, by virtue of their slow digestion and absorption, produce gradual rises in blood sugar and insulin levels, and have proven benefits for health. The glycemic index helps us understanding what the best carbs are, and if you get that right you are half the way to transform your body and improve your health by leaps and bounds. The glycemic index is about the quality of the carbohydrates, not the quantity. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into glucose. It doesn't tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. I do not provide quantities and GI indexes because food should be fun and not measured continuously. You should never stay hungry and you should eat as much as you want of the right foods. Therefore, you will achieve tremendous success eating a lot of low GI carbs. But I don’t want you to be concerned with the index and therefore the carbs are categorized to 3 lists: Black list – High GI that you avoid eating White list – Low GI that you eat as you want Grey list – Medium GI that you should control the quantity Understanding the GI and the impact of sugar and fructose on your health, has a surprising impact on slowing your aging, boost your health, transform your body and shed at least 10 years of your age . I call this nutrition plan “high-carb/low GI diet”.
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Dov Oshri is the author of the revolutionary Anti-Aging Fitness Program "Change Your Body and Be Admired". He is the chief editor of Body for Mind – a Wellness Lifestyle for Successful People. His cutting edge Anti-Aging Fitness Program can be downloaded for FREE at www.bodyformind.com
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