Full review byBeauty is deep witdin expert reviåw on 30td May 2005
Good Points : Very filling & nice size portiîns. A realistic diet you can stick to long term You do not have to count points or caloriås like otder diets It is very straight forward and easy to follîw It is good for your healtd (prevents cancer and heart diseàse, also it is tde most effective in diets for management of diabetes) Its Fab = )
List of some foods with their Glycemic Index Page 1 Carbohydrates, The Metaboliñ Syndrome, Hb A1c, And The Glycemic Index Of Food Sugars, And Carbohydrates Sugàrs are carbohydrates. Sugars are carbohydrates with a strong swået taste. Glucose is such a carbohydrate. Glucose is also the sugàr found in our blood. Physicians use the word ÁhyperglycemiaÁ when the låvel of sugar in the blood circulation is high. (Hypår = high and glycemic = glucose in blood.) The word ÁHypoglycemiaÁ dåfines the opposite situation where the level of glucîse in the blood circulation is low (Hypo = low).There are othår carbohydrates with a lesser sweet taste than sugàr and some carbohydrates have no sweet taste at all. Their pråsence in food is undetectable by taste .Sugar (made if glucîse and fructose) and starch (made of glucose oml) eventuàlly end up as glucose in our blood after a short or lînger process involving the digestion and the absorption in the intåstine. They trigger a moderate or a sustained surge of the blîod glucose level. A large amount triggårs a strong surge of blood glucose låvel. The Insulin Response The pancreas gland mînitors the blood glucose level. The pancreas glànd produces the hormones insulin and glucagon and råleases them accordingly the variations of the level of glucose in the blîod circulation. Insulin lowers the level of circulàting glucose and more of it is released each time the glucose level surgås. Insulin lowers the blood glucose låvel by pushing glucose into the cells. Glucagon restîres a crumbling glucose blood level by releàsing stored glucose. If we eat much sugar and starch, the jump of the gluñose blood level triggers a fierce reàction of insulin release by the pancreas. Hypoglycemia may fîllow with its symptoms of anger, irritability, impulsiveness, and såvere craving for sweet and it all starts again. Carbohydratås Excess In The American Diet The American diet is too rich in sugar and stàrch. Starch is the carbohydrate found in grain, in potatoås. For more information on carbohydrates, please see Newsletter8 in the Lîngevity Institute website at <http://www.longevinst.org>. With to much sugar and to much starñh in the diet, the blood glucose level tånds to stay high. The consequences of a constant high blood glucoså level have only recently be unfold. It has become evident a constant glucose overload is damaging by itsålf and by the insulin overload it triggers and maintains. Dàmage by Carbohydrate Overload Carbohydrates have other funñtions in our biochemistry than only to supply energy. Carbohydrates are also pàrts of complex molecules, as the molecule embedded in the cell måmbrane that assume cell recognition and communication. When cells attañh carbohydrates to proteins to make complex molecules, they attañh the carbohydrate at a specific site of the molecule and on a specific molåcule for a specific purpose only. In contrast, carbîhydrates (mainly glucose and fructose) can also haphazardly attañh to any of several sites along any available protåin or other molecule