Diabetes Low GI Diet

A diabetes low GI diet is essential for you to implement being a diabetic. It becomes important to understand and know all about the glycemix index (GI) and how it affects your body and your diabetes. You are probably asking yourself what on earth is the GI and how does it help you with your diabetes?

To answer your question about what GI is, please see the following tips that should help you to understand:

*  GI is a tool that helps you choose the right type of carbohydrates

*  A low GI food contains carbohydrates that have less effect on your blood glucose levels - the GI for low is 55 of less

*  A high GI food contains carbohydrates that have a greater effect on your blood glucose levels - the GI for high is 70 or more

*  GI is on a scale from 0 to 100, which reflects how fast the carbohydrates in your foods hit the bloodstream

*  GI compares foods per gram of carbohydrate and not by per 100 grams of food

Your complete diet does not have to be all low GI foods, but it would be beneficial to you if you only added one high GI food to each meal, the rest being low GI foods. Low GI foods are slow in digestion and have only a gradual increase and decrease in your blood glucose levels, so the slower the digestion of food helps with your hunger pains and will enables you to promote weight loss; you will less likely choose the incorrect foods as well as not over eating.

By implementing a low GI diet you can achieve the following:

*  You will feel better

*  You won't go hungry

*  You will have more energy, and

*  You'll look so much better

To be able to achieve optimum results, it is essential that you implement the following tips for a diabetes low GI diet:

*  Ensure that you eat on a regular basis

*  Ensure that the foods that you eat are mainly low GI

*  Add at least seven or more servings of vegetables and fruit throughout the day

*  Add legumes in your diet like beans, lentils, and chickpeas

*  Add nuts into your diet on a regular basis

*  Reduce your salt intake

*  Limit the amount of alcohol you drink

*  Ensure you choose lean meats and skinless chicken

*  Ensure that you include a source of omega-3 in your diet

It is important to remember that foods with a high GI contains carbohydrates that will cause an increase in your blood glucose levels and low GI foods contain carbohydrates that are much less of an impact on your blood glucose levels. As you can see, including a low GI diet into your life is essential and most definitely beneficial for your diabetes.