Low Carbohydrate Stupidity by Stephen Bucaro

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Low Carbohydrate Stupidity

By Stephen Bucaro

The latest buzz word for today’s diet scams and prepackaged

food rip-offs is "low carb". "Eat all the fat and meat you

want and still lose weight." Yeh, when your cold dead body

starts to dry up!

Let's make one thing clear, without carbohydrates you die.

Carbohydrates; fruits, vegetables, and grains provide the

fiber, sugar, and electrolytes your body needs to survive.

Without these vital nutrients, you die.

How did this carbohydrate stupidity get started? It started

as the result of confusion about a new discovery called the

glycemic index.

When you eat carbohydrates, your blood sugar level rises.

Excessive blood sugar is not good for your body. To clear

the sugar from your bloodstream, your pancreas releases

insulin. This causes the sugar to be stored in your fat

cells.

The fact is that you need some sugar in your blood because

that’s where your energy comes from. Without blood sugar,

neither your muscles nor your brain will work. But excess

blood sugar is a problem.

New research has discovered that eating certain refined

carbohydrates causes your blood sugar to rise much higher

and stay high longer than eating whole carbohydrates.

Note: As you age, your pancreas becomes less efficient at

producing insulin. As a result, sugar is not effectively

cleared from the bloodstream, resulting in diabetes.

The gylcemic index uses the blood sugar rise caused by

eating pure sugar as a guide for rating other foods. Pure

sugar has a glycemic index of 100. To stay thin and healthy,

you need to avoid foods with a gylcemic index higher than

about 50.

The gylcemic index of thousands of foods has been measured

by monitoring thousands of peoples blood sugar after eating

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