Sentences with phrase «glycemic index lead»

The glycemic index measures how quickly certain foods spike your blood sugar levels; eating foods with a lower glycemic index leads to more stable blood sugar levels and fewer energy crashes.

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Once upon a time, many health proponents (including Dr. Oz) claimed that you should swap your sugar for agave since it has a low - glycemic index and doesn't lead to the kind of impromptu spikes in blood sugar (a.k.a. glucose) linked with plain old white sugar.

The intrinsic portion distortion problem with the glycemic index ultimately led scientists to come up with the idea of glycemic load, which is better than the GI but still imperfect and too complicated.

Whole wheat also happens to have a very high glycemic index, leading to the blood sugar «roller coaster» that makes you crave another high - carb snack soon after eating (10).

The experience led the couple to create food bars that offered the more sustained energy of a small, but a balanced meal with a low glycemic index.

The Total Wellbeing Diet has been developed by Australia's leading experts from the CSIRO and the Glycemic Index Foundation (GIF).

A diet full of processed foods and simple carbohydrates, which have a high glycemic index, eventually will lead to a slower metabolism.

So, 200 calories of corn flakes (93 on the glycemic index), or a diet filled with such processed foods, can continuously spike the blood with glucose and trigger a cascade of events that ultimately lead to more weight gain compared to 200 calories of hummus (6 on the glycemic index).

Though the study was not designed to test the effects of low glycemic index foods on weight control, its lead researchers looked at studies that did focus on weight and found no clear proof of a benefit.

When we consume high quantities of carbohydrates at once, especially high glycemic index carbs, it leads to the release of high doses of insulin in the body.

Carbs with a low glycemic index — such as fruit and pasta — were not associated with an increased risk of heart disease, which suggests that the increased risk is caused «not by a diet high in carbohydrates, but by a diet rich in rapidly absorbed carbohydrates,» says the lead author of the study, Sabina Sieri, PhD, of the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, a national institute for cancer research in Milan, Italy.

Exploratory studies incorporating flaxseed in recipes resulted in reduced glycemic index of the food items, leading to the notion that flaxseed supplementation may benefit patients with type 2 diabetes.

Because it is higher on the glycemic index, jasmine rice triggers the production of high levels of insulin in the body, which leads to the increase in the production of tryptophan and an increased amount of the sleep - inducing hormone, melatonin.

«A diet with sugar and high glycemic index foods promotes all the leading causes of death in America,» he says.

Many types of research have proved that high glycemic index foods can lead to the development of pimples.

The University of Sydney is one of the leading centers» for Glycemic Index research in the world.

Nirupa Matthan, Ph.D. «Glycemic index values appear to be an unreliable indicator even under highly standardized conditions, and are unlikely to be useful in guiding food choices,» said lead study author Nirupa Matthan, Ph.D., scientist in the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA.

I have also read that glycerol leads to insulinemia even though it has a very low glycemic index (Example: Stimulation of insulin secretion in man by oral glycerol administration)..

As a rule, gentle cooking of starchy plants leads to a lower glycemic index and high cooking temperatures lead to a higher glycemic index.

It is concluded that application of the glycemic index in isolation to judge the role of white vegetables in the diet and, specifically in the case of potato as consumed in ad libitum meals, has led to premature and possibly counterproductive dietary guidance.»

The high fiber content in raisins help make them slower to digest and leads to a fairly low glycemic index around 60 and lower insulin index (19, 20).

The deficiency has led nutritionists towards the development of the improved index GL (glycemic load), which is the GI multiplied by the net carbs (the total carbohydrate content of the food minus the fibre content and sugar alcohols) of regular portion of the particular food.

«Oranges are a low - fat, nutrient - rich food with a low glycemic index, which make it an ideal food to consume to protect against obesity, which can lead to other diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke,» Flores told Live Science.

The glycemic index diet is based on the idea that carbohydrates that can lead to a rapid increase in blood sugar levels should be avoided.

Insulin levels had always been assumed to go up or down with the blood glucose levels which led to the glycemic index which had always been assumed to be a -LSB-...]

Also, it's not Glycemic Index alone that leads to the increase in blood sugar.

Thus, consumption of high glycemic index foods may lead to increased hunger and promote overeating and weight gain.