Delicious Diet for Diabetics

Female: In today’s health tip a leading nutritionist will explain how diabetics can stay healthy by learning the basics of the glycemic index.

Female: When you have diabetes, a smart diet starts with understanding how different foods can affect your blood sugar levels. The glycemic index or GI is a tool that distinguishes how different carbohydrates affect blood sugar. The system co pares various foods to pure glucose which ahs a rating of 100.

Foods with the glycemic index rating below 55 such as an apple are digested slowly keeping blood sugar stable. Foods with the GI rating greater than 55 like a donut are digested and absorbed quickly creating intense fluctuations in the body’s sugar and insulin levels.

Some examples of food with particularly high GI’s include white bread which has a GI of 71, watermelon which weighs in 72 pretzels which have a GI of 81.




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