Landmark: the high-GI foods …
Sugar (white or red, honey, maple syrup …), white flour (white bread, overcooked pasta, white rice, muffins, pastries, breakfast cereals and refined sweet), potatoes (especially mashed and chips) and all soft drinks (sodas, fruit juice industrial ..) have a high glycemic index.
A high consumption of these foods increases the rate of sugar in the blood. The body then releases insulin, a hormone that can trigger weight gain.
The low GI foods
By eating foods with low GI’s body learns to use fat as an energy source. A priority therefore: whole grains and mixed (multi-grain bread, brown rice or basmati, cooked al dente pasta ..), green vegetables, lentils, beans, oats, muesli, fruit naturally, extract sweetener natural (agave syrup, stevia plant, Pacific, dark chocolate over 70% cocoa …).
Namely, garlic, onion and shallots, contribute to reduce insulin spikes. The goal: not to exceed 80 units CG / day. For info, carrots provide two, 22 pancakes, 0 and salmon lasagna 30.
The example of Breakfast
“By taking a bowl of cornflakes with milk and a glass of orange juice, it already comes with a glycemic load of 33, half of what we should eat! By cons, if you take 3 slices of bread cereal with butter, honey and orange, the load is only 21, “says Anne Dufour, author of The Plan minceur CG.
The glycemic index of foods we eat directly influence so our waistlines. But good news, many low-GI recipes are delicious and gourmet. On your cooking!
Tags: GI foods, glycemic index, High, Low
