Advantages of Including Low GI Foods in Your Diet

First, let me introduce and succinctly define, GI. GI is the abbreviation for the word Glycaemic Index. Glycaemic Index or GI was invented at the year 1981 by Dr. David Jenkins at the University of Toronto used to measure the effects of certain foods to the blood sugar level. On the GI, 100 indicate a pure glucose. The index was originally invented to have a more accurate guide to the glycaemic response of human body to different sources of carbohydrates.

Foods with a high GI are helpful for the quick release of energy but only in a short term. In consequence, foods with a high GI should only be eaten in moderation for they may cause negative effects on the body.

On the other hand, it is also good idea of eating foods with low GI in your day to day diet because theses foods offer sustained energy with a steady and gradual change of your blood glucose.

In comparison, low GI foods are digested slowly and absorbed by the body gradually. Because of this, your blood glucose will change in a slow, steady way. Otherwise, foods with high GI are digested and absorbed quickly by the body, thus, causing an unnatural pace in the change of the blood glucose. Foods with high GI will cause increase damage to the oxidative vascular of the body and will increase insulin production. Both of these contribute greatly to diabetes and any other heart diseases.

Having a low GI food included in your diet has many advantageous effects. It helps in managing your appetite, improves endurance, demand of insulin will be lower, lessens cholesterol, balanced energy level, and most specially, it improves your endurance.

Studies including low GI foods to be healthy have been done in the past few years already. It has been found out that it can reduce the possibility of acquiring diseases, or even death, by suppressing or crushing inflammation. Such example of these diseases are diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, lung diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, etc. And foods with high GI, contains, high GI carbs, which contribute greatly to inflammation, thus increasing the possibility of acquiring inflammation-caused diseases.

Eating low GI foods also helps in curing PCOS (Polycystic ovarian syndrome), a state associated by having multiple cysts in the ovary, abnormal hair growth in the face, and acne caused by abnormal androgen level in the female body. Women with PCOS are said to be resistant in insulin meaning that insulin do not work too well.

A study was conducted to prove this and found out that, women with low GI diet tend to do better than a regular diet. In the low GI diet, majority of the women observed an improvement to their menstrual cycle and has improved blood sugar control. Concluding that a low GI diet is very helpful in curing women with PCOS.

Eating food with low GI is really advantageous for the body. Many should try this diet for them to decrease the possibility of acquiring serious diseases.