The GI Diet (Glycemic Index)

We favor foods with a low glycemic index, vegetables, animal proteins, whole grains. An ideal approach for those who refuse to weigh or calculate, to prepare dishes chichiteuses or to flee the restaurants.

BASIC PRINCIPLE: FIGHT AGAINST GLYCEMIC PEAKS

This diet based on the glycemic index (GI) classifies foods according to the rate at which they raise blood sugar, that is to say the blood sugar level.

In order to digest this sugar and get it into the cells, the pancreas secretes insulin. When one eats "healthy", the blood glucose varies moderately.

But if you soda, cakes, sweets and other carbohydrate bombs throughout the day, it skyrockets, the body secretes insulin en masse to lower it, and it ends up being too low and cause the symptom of hunger.

That's why sugar is said to be called sugar. Result: pumping and weight gain. By controlling your blood sugar, you can better prevent the risks of obesity and diabetes,

IN PRACTICE

• To consume without restriction: foods with low GI (less than 35), more moderately, those with medium GI (from 35 to 50) and exceptionally, those with high GI (between 50 and 100). In general, all industrialized products (prepared meals, biscuits, refined cereals) and very sweet products in the mouth have GIs that fly away.
• To favor: a lot of vegetables, some animal or vegetable proteins and whole grains (rice, pasta, bread) rather than their refined version. Fats can be consumed in a moderate way; they do not cause an increase in blood sugar.
• For a lower GI, we must favor the raw, cook pasta al dente, opt for steaming, choose bread a little stale or grilled, etc. Finally, combining a high-sugar food with a protein-rich food (for example, rice with omelette and ham, jam with cottage cheese) reduces the GI of the meal.

DISADVANTAGES OF THE METHOD

It requires real learning because it is not always possible to taste the knowledge of the GI of a food. Thus, the chocolate has a GI of 25 while the pineapple displays a GI of 49!

Keep your list handy (available on some sites and through books). In addition, the traps are numerous: the potato has a GI depending on whether it is prepared in the oven (95), mashed (83), deep fried (75) or steamed (65). Melon or watermelon, although low in calories, have a high GI (60 and 75).

THE ADVICE OF A FOLLOWER OF THIS DIET

Dr. Pierre Nys, endocrinologist and nutritionist, author of My Bible IG , Editions Daily Malin "The glycemic index is a very practical and very practical tool, essential in today's nutrition, because if we want to remain thin and in good health We must be careful to maintain a low and balanced blood glucose level, following the principles of the GI, we eat in a physiological way and we naturally lose the unwanted pounds, so this is a remarkable slimming diet and a new way of living. 'feed."

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