The Glycemic Index Diet
Copyright 2006 Adam Waxler
The glycemic index diet plan certainly is being endorsed by more and more celebrities. ?But how exactly does the glycemic index diet (GI Diet) differ from the other diets on the market.
The glycemic index diet is based on the findings of Dr. David Jenkins that some sugar-based carbohydrates affect the glucose levels in the body differently than the more complex starch based carbohydrates.
According to the glycemic index diet, foods that provide a slow delivery of sugar to the body will be helpful to weight loss in that it will prevent the dieter from feeling the need for energy and therefore the need to keep on eating.
On the other hand, foods with a high glycemic index provide a sudden influx of sugar to the body that provides energy at first, but then leaves you feeling tired and hungry as body begins to crave more sugar.
Eating foods with a high glycemic index lead to the need for even more sugar to get the quick rush of glucose to replace the loss of energy, which in turn has the same effect. This constant need for more sugary food (high glycemic index) means that weight loss will be more difficult.
The basic concept of the low glycemic index diet is fairly straightforward. You simply eat more of the foods with a low glycemic index than you do of the foods with a high glycemic index.
Since there is plenty of information about the glycemic index values of various foods, it is fairly easy to design a low glycemic index diet.
However, there is more to the glycemic index diet than just eating foods with a low glycemic index. The glycemic index diet also encourages the dieter to limit their intake of high fat foods, even if they are also low glycemic index foods. Therefore, you must find foods that are both low fat and low glycemic index.
The glycemic index diet is easy to follow if you are eating standard foods that are easily recognizable. However, the problem is that many foods have different glycemic index values depending on whether they are cooked, or even how ripe they are.
It can also be especially difficult to determine the glycemic index when a meal is prepared with many different ingredients.
Therefore, if you are not experienced with the glycemic index diet, it can be very time consuming and make the whole diet not very user friendly.
On the other hand, when you become more familiar with how to calculate glycemic index of various foods you will need to spend a lot less time looking them up to see if they are within the allowed limits.
The low glycemic index diet can be very healthy in that it actively encourages the dieter to eat fruits and complex carbohydrates, such as brown rice and pasta. It also discourages the intake of processed foods and foods that are high in fat.
Although the low glycemic index diet may be restrictive, it can also be quite varied and enjoyable.
As soon as you learn how to calculate glycemic index values of various food groups you can alter your menu in many different ways.
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Dr. Conrad Maulfair Reveals the Real Story About Cholesterol
Copyright 2006 In Touch Media Group, Inc.
"Contrary to popular belief, cholesterol is not fat," says Dr. Conrad Maulfair, director of the Maulfair Medical Clinic in Topton, Pa. "Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is produced by the liver and also ingested through foods we eat. It often has fatty acids contained in it and therefore it is considered to be fat, but it is not fat in and of itself."
According to Dr. Maulfair, up to 80 percent of cholesterol is used to make cholic acid, which is essential in bile salts that are in turn necessary for digestion and absorption of fat from the diet.
Additionally, cholesterol is used to make the hormones progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone.
There is also a significant amount of cholesterol in the skin that helps the skin to resist water absorption and water evaporation. The presence of cholesterol in the skin also helps to decrease the penetration of toxic agents such as solvents.
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The Skinny on Oats, Oatmeal, Vitamins Nutrition for Skin Care and Bath Products.
Oats (botanical name Avena sativa)An oat is a grass that produces a fibrous root and a hollow jointed stem with narrow, flat, pale-green leaves. Oats are native to southern Europe and eastern Asia. They are widely cultivated as a food.An oat is an edible cereal grain produced by the cereal grass of the same name. They are light colored and have a nutty flavor and a chewy texture.Usually we think of them as breakfast food but oatmeal has long been known for its skin-soothing properties. Many skin lotions and ointments are formulated with oats for it's skin healing properties.
As a nutritious breakfast food oats provide a healthy addition to your diet in that there is 140 calories per 1/2 cup serving. They also provide 4g of dietary fiber, of which 2g of this is soluble fiber and 2g is insoluble. Insoluble fibers are those that cannot be dissolved in water. And soluble fibers can be dissolved in water. They provide 10% of your daily iron needs.
Also of this 1/2 cup serving,...
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Red meat consumption doubles risk of colon cancer, says study; is it time to go vegetarian yet?
Copyright 2006 Truth Publishing
A current study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows a doubling of the risk of colon cancer for people who are heavy consumers of red meat. More specifically, it shows that the risk doubles compared to those who consume smaller quantities of red meat. But how does this compare to people who consume no red meat at all?
This is conjecture, but I'm willing to bet that heavy consumers of red meat probably have quadruple the risk (or more) of colon cancer compared to vegetarians or people who consume no red meat. By the way, you don't have to be a vegetarian to boycott red meat. You can still be a consumer of other sources of animal protein (fish, seafood, etc.) while avoiding red meat.
There are plenty of health reasons to avoid eating red meat, and a higher risk of colon cancer is just one of them.
The saturated animal fat found in red meat products contributes to heart disease and...
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Plus Size Cocktail Dress - Making A Legendary Entrance
So what exactly is a cocktail dress? My mom tells me that a cocktail dress I one that ends around your knees as opposed to being full length.
But does it count if it hits mid calf?
I have always been confused on this.
My mom calls anything around your calf tea length but I think she made this up a long time ago.
Or her mom made it up and she just stuck with it.
I looked up cocktail dresses on the internet and they seem to be in all shapes and sizes, they just aren't full length gowns.
There is a wide array of things available out there.
Cocktail dresses for garden parties, some more appropriate for weddings.
I think the word cocktail dress encompasses a lot.
I even found websites devoted solely to plus size cocktail dresses, or so they claimed.
I was intrigued when I saw these sites claiming to be devoted solely to plus sizes so I investigated.
The do have...
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Wellness versus Ignorance
If you ask most Americans whether wellness is important,most will agree. Parents will usually say that family healthis one of their major concerns. Yet most are rather ignorantabout nutrition information. Blame our public educationsystem, false or misleading reporting, and ads, ads, ads.Recent news increasingly reports that obesity is epidemic inthe United States, and that it is the major cause of earlydeath, after tobacco. Yet the solution is really simple.It used to be that people who claimed the simple life is thekey to anti aging would be met with a big yawn, or strongdoubt, or rude noises.
Now, such reliable sources of healthinformation as Centers for Disease Control and Preventionare saying that good diet and moderate exercise really arethe keys to long life.The same ad blasters who helped get us into health troublesare eager to sell us pills, potions, books, quack cures thatdance all around the truth. After all, folks really wantmagic bullets to fix problems, so they won't...
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The Mediterranean Diet
The Mediterranean Diet is now recognized as one of the healthiest in the world consisting as it does of large amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables, salads,nuts,seeds, omega-3 rich oily fish, olives and olive oil and being comparitively low in dairy products and red meats.The people of the Mediterranean region, particuarly Greece and Spain, are very fortunate to live in an area where naturally healthy food is readily and cheaply available. The incidence of heart disease and cancer are lower here than anywhere else in the western world and experts now believe this is due in great part to what has become known as the Mediterranean diet.Modern farming techniques and world wide transport has changed most peoples diets dramatically in the past centuary and it is now widely believed that such changes have had an exteremely detrimental effect on our health. Fortunately the impact of these developments has not had such a catastrophic effect in Mediterranean regionswhere to a large extent traditional...
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Do Cellulite Creams Actually Work?
No cellulite cream can counteract the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, for instance.
Neither can a cream magically restore circulation or drop excess weight from a body that does very little and takes in more than it needs.The best lotions, the most evolved lotions, cannot make up for diets composed of fast foods eaten on the run and deep fried fatty concoctions with little or no nutritional value.Neither can lotions reduce stress for a body rigid with it and stress is often an element in the problem of cellulite.
Stress does not have to be physical to have very physical effects.No lotion exists that can reverse genetic inheritances or balance hormones reliably.
These are all factors in the formation of cellulite.So, now that we are clear on exactly what cellulite creams cannot do, we can move on to what they may be useful for.
Now you have them in perspective you may be less likely to believe advertising that tells you that you needn't move off the...
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