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When you eat carbohydrates such as grains, vegetables and fruit, this is broken down into glucose in your body. Therefore, after a meal the amount of glucose in your bloodstream rises. Your pancreas responds to this by secreting a hormone called insulin. Insulin transports the glucose from your bloodstream into your cells, and your cells then convert this sugar into energy.
Glucose in your bloodstream is one of the most common and damaging free radicals in your body. It hastens aging more than anything else known, and if high, it triples your risk of heart disease. High blood glucose levels are more damaging than smoking one packet of cigarettes a day.
The answer is by eating low Glycemic Index (GI) foods. The Glycemic Index measures how much your blood glucose increases over a period of two or three hours after a meal.
Remember - blood glucose comes from the breakdown of carbohydrates. So if a carbohydrate is broken down quickly, it floods your bloodstream with glucose. This is what’s called a high GI carbohydrate……whereas if it breaks down slowly – which is often the case with the more complex carbohydrates - there is just a trickle of glucose into your bloodstream, and hence into your cells. This is more sustainable energy, rather like the difference between a caffeine “hit” and the sustenance of a good nutritious diet.
The New England Journal of Medicine did a study over 2 years. They found that high GI foods increase the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, whereas low GI diet foods can help with weight loss and the prevention of heart disease and diabetes. So for health and longevity, you want to ensure that you are keeping to low glycemic index (GI) foods as much as possible.
Let’s look at the glycemic index list of some common foods. Examples of high GI foods are white bread, soft drinks, full fat ice-cream, chocolate bars etc……junk food and fast food, in other words. And the Los Angeles Times did a recent poll of adults, and found that junk food comprises 29% of the American diet.
Low GI diet foods include foods like yoghurt, the Ningxia wolfberry, fructose and maple syrup. But this glycemic index chart shows that Young Living's all-natural and all-healthy WolfieB crisp bars, Agave nectar (a natural sweetener from a cactus), and their super antioxidant juice NingXia Red, are all extremely low glycemic index (GI) foods.
High GI foods: |
Low GI foods: |
| Honey |
110 |
Yoghurt |
38 |
| Glucose |
100 |
Ningxia Wolfberry |
28.8 |
| Cane Sugar |
98 |
Barley |
25 |
| Brown rice pasta |
92 |
Fructose |
21 |
| White rice |
88 |
Maple Syrup |
19/21 |
| Potato |
85 |
WolfieB crisps |
14 |
| Corn flakes |
80 |
Agave nectar |
11 |
| Whole wheat bread |
72 |
NingXia Red |
10.57 |
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