Sentences with phrase «index food choices»

Coupled with low glycemic index food choices, exercise will help you maintain more consistent blood sugar levels.

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At a Glycemic Index of 98, Oryza is the ideal choice for food products intended to supply an easily - digested and rapid source of energy such as those for athletes or endurance sports.

Carbohydrate - rich foods with a moderate to high glycemic index provide a readily available source of carbohydrate for muscle glycogen synthesis, and should be the major carbohydrate choices in recovery meals.

The glycemic index of a food can be reduced by eating healthy fats along with the sweetener of choice.

So high - glycemic index foods like potatoes, pasta, bread, and rice are good choices for refueling muscles.

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.

Get a copy of Plan D for information on the «Sherri Steps» to taking control of your eating choices, how to overcome emotional eating, forgiving yourself, an exercise plan, glycemic indexes and glycemic loads of popular foods, and the causes of diabetes and prediabetes.

Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia created the glycemic index to guide people in their choice of carbohydrate - containing foods.

For many endurance athletes the foods of choice for carbo - loading are those of low glycemic indices due to their minimal effect on serum glucose levels.

A slow - carb diet helps you make better carbohydrate choices by utilizing the glycemic index, a scoring system that ranks foods according to the rate at which they enter your bloodstream as glucose.

Simply favoring whole fresh foods over processed ones will naturally lower the glycemic index of your diet and optimize the healthiness of your food choices, she said.