Lower glycemic foods tend to be that way because they contain higher amounts of fiber,
thus slowing digestion.
Fibers are basically indigestible nutrients and provide no calories for your body, yet they give your meals bulk,
thus slowing your digestion.
Not exact matches
Dragon fruit is high in fibre
thus helps to
slow digestion, limiting the flood of sugar energy into the cells.
This hormone, highly evident during the first trimester of pregnancy, will
slow down
digestion, giving the nutrients from the foods eaten more time to enter into the bloodstream and reach the embryo
thus causing more frequent and possibly uncomfortable bloating.
Promotes satiety: Protein
slows down the
digestion of food and creates a feeling of fullness,
thus preventing further hunger pangs.
For instance, berberine is known to
slow down the
digestion of carbohydrates in the gut,
thus mellowing the resultant glucose and insulin spike.
When you have poor
digestion, inflammation, or a
slow metabolism, your gut can not perform to the best of its ability and
thus your overall health suffers.
It also helps
slow digestion, which can balance blood sugar, and plays a role in preventing the buildup of unhealthy low - density lipoprotein cholesterol in your body,
thus potentially preventing heart disease.
The pastry has fat that will
slow down
digestion and
thus result in a lesser blood sugar spike.