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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Low Glycemic Diets Improve Your Energy Level

By Kathryn Barry

Low Glycemic Diets are lower in sugar or carbohydrates and emphasize more foods that contain protein and healthy fats.

Why Should You Be Aware of Carbohydrates?

Your body uses glucose which is a simple sugar that is found in carbohydrates for energy. This is also an important fuel for your brain and muscles.

Your brain relies on glucose for functions like learning and your muscles rely on glucose as its fuel to get you around.

You might think it's okay to indulge in carbohydrates because it's good for your brain. However, while a little glucose seems to be a good thing, too much glucose has the opposite effect.

Two Low Glycemic Diets I Personally Experienced

The Atkin's Diet restricts carbs and this forces your body to burn its stored fat reserves for energy. Your body tends to utilize carbohydrates over fat in the creation of energy and this is why this diet limits the amount of carbs you ingest.

Since your body's first choice for energy is glucose, which comes from carbohydrates in your diet, eating too much will create fat storage instead of burning fat.

During the 3 years that I was on this diet - I was able to work 50 hours a week, take care of my toddler, and prepare our meals.

Because I only needed about 6 hours of rest every night, this enabled me to get a lot done during this time period.

What this diet seems to need are really good supplements and while I was taking high quality and very natural supplements I did well on this diet.

This Low Glycemic Diet is My Choice Between the Two Diets

The Primal Diet has similar dietary qualities to the Atkin's Diet, but is very different on so many levels.

This is a raw food diet and there is No Carb Counting involved. Grains and Legumes are not really allowed and supplements are not recommended for this diet. If you must drink water, Mineral Water is the recommended choice.

Raw vegetable juices are used for your daily vitamins and minerals. The bulk of this diet is raw animal products such as raw milk and raw meats along with raw coconut cream.

I absolutely loved raw milk and even gave this to my young child. I noticed she had no dental cavities while drinking raw milk, but when I stopped the raw milk along came the tooth decay.

My endurance was greatly affected by the consumption of raw eggs and raw meat. It is actually very filling and satisfying food.

Even though I wasn't raw 100% of the time, I was able to notice a big change in my health. All in all, the primal diet gave me a grounding and calmness I never really experienced from any other diet. - 17273

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