Helping People Lose Weight Via Traditional & Surgery Alternatives
I came across there excellent post on “Gastric Bypass Barbie’s” web-site.
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Excerpt taken from 10 Steps to Healthy Eating – author Leslie Beck RD
(Leslie Beck is a Canadian registered dietitian, a leading Canadian nutritionist and author of several nutrition books. Leslie also writes a weekly nutrition column in The Globe and Mail and is a regular contributor to CTV’s Canada AM.)
To choose carbohydrate foods that do not cause large increases in blood sugar and insulin, practice the following:
I use to love the “Made Simple” series of books. This is way before the “Books for Dummies” series of books, so I’m probably dating myself. Some how “Dummy Books” just don’t sit well with me. Call me old fashion, but I’d rather have a book or article that says, “Here – read this. We’ve taken the complicated out of the subject and make it simple to understand.”
So that’s what you get with this article. A new, simple and easy to understand look at carbohydrates and the glycemic index.
For decades now, many experts have urged over-weight people to seriously limit or eliminate carbohydrates altogether from their diets. We’ve been told that carbs are bad for us, especially if we’re obese. We’ve been told to go on protein diets , fat free, no carb diets and all kinds of other fads. Millions have been made selling all kinds of diet books, many of which are non-sustainable diets (you can’t live on them for the rest of your life) or even unhealthy diets to the point where they actually do us more harm than good.
So, before you pick a diet or start eliminating some entire food group from your food, we need to understand carbs and the glycemic index and we need it simple. So here goes … Read the rest of this post
There is a LOT of miss information out there on carbs or carbohydrates. I hear it a ALL the time, even in my own family. What’s even more scary is some of the reasons I hear people using to justify maintaining their eating habits around carbohydrates. So, whether you’re reading this becasue you just have to lose a few pounds or you’re considering weight loss surgery; by taking a quick look at carbohydrates, we can clear up some of these misconceptions for you. Read the rest of this post
