The Permanent Fat Loss Breakthrough 

Understand the new Glycemic Food Index

BEWARE! Nutrition is more controversial than politics or religion. However recent Breakthroughs discovered food is your most powerful medicine.

Nutrition is now a science.

Learn the Glycemic Index of carbohydrates. It will Save Your Life.

All foods are now rated with a number. It is called the Glycemic Index of foods. The number system is based around white bread, which has a glycemic index of 100. What the number means is how fast the food changes into sugar in the blood stream. The higher the Glycemic number, the faster the food changes into sugar. The higher the number the greater effect it has on raising the hormone insulin. The lower the Glycemic number, the slower the food changes into sugar. The lower the number the lower effect it has on raising the hormone insulin. Remember, we don’t want insulin to rise too fast. High insulin means stress on the pancreas and excess insulin takes all the extra sugar to the liver and creates fat.

This rating system serves as a measuring scale to help identify patterns of how the body metabolizes food in order to predict a reasonable range of effects that particular food has on you. The Glycemic Response Rating of a food also identifies that foods' ability to stimulate the fat enzyme, Lipoprotein Lipase, the "gatekeeper for fat storage in the fat cell." The insulin response of a food, as indicated by its glycemic index or rating, is in direct relation to its "fat storing properties." A food with a high glycemic rating is more fattening than one with a low glycemic rating. The glycemic rating of a food also indicates its acceptability for use by diabetics.

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