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Posted by Wolf Dreamer on September 1, 2006, at 14:04:35
Its been awhile, but here I am again.
Differant foods do affect me. I know that.
I've changed my diet in the past, with some good results, but the anxiety is still there, sometimes far worse than others.
My diet consisted of virtually no carbohydrates.
Are there any health drinks that have as many carbohydrates as possible in them, but no sugar, or any unnecessary ingrediants?
I'm eating Rice Krispies cereal now, since it has almost no sugar listed, and no fat. The milk however has a lot of both, so I'm going to check out skim milk next time I go to the store, or whatever else is available.
I read that white rice is high-glycemic, while brown rice is low-glycemic. Does the listing on the box that indicate sugars, including just sugar that is added to it for flavor, or does that include sugar that is produced naturally from various foods?
I don't see any rice krispie cereal made with brown rice on any health food store site. Anyone know of such a product?
Posted by Declan on September 1, 2006, at 17:33:57
In reply to Low-glycemic carbohydrate foods cure anxiety?, posted by Wolf Dreamer on September 1, 2006, at 14:04:35
Basmati rice is said to have a lower GI.
At any rate it is nicer than other white rices.
Posted by Meri-Tuuli on September 2, 2006, at 12:44:11
In reply to Low-glycemic carbohydrate foods cure anxiety?, posted by Wolf Dreamer on September 1, 2006, at 14:04:35
Hello
Its not so much *sugar* per se (which actually doesn't have as high a GI as you might think), but how it is broken down when it is digested.
White french baguette bread, for instance has a GI score of 95 (its out of 100 - 100 being that the food you've eaten goes into your bloodstream instantaneously - the lower the score the better basically)
1 teaspoon of sucrose has a GI score of 65, whilst 30g of rice krispies has a score of 82.
So I personally would avoid the rice krispies and eat something like all-bran, coming in at 42 for 40g.
Full fat milk has a GI score of 27, which is pretty low obviously.
So as you can see, its not that obvious which are high sugar foods and which aren't. Its about how the sugar/carbohydrate molecules are broken down in the gut, and how fast the sugar can enter your bloodstream. So milk, for example, yes has sugar in it, but for the sugar to be available in your bloodstream the milk sugar has to have been broken down first, and that doesn't happen so fast - its a complicated molecule.
White bread, OTOH, has a simple starch molecule and needs only one or two steps to break the chain up and get into your bloodstream.
If you want to read more try "the glucose revolution" or something like that.
Kind regards
Meri
Posted by Wolf Dreamer on September 2, 2006, at 16:45:52
In reply to Re: Low-glycemic carbohydrate foods cure anxiety?, posted by Meri-Tuuli on September 2, 2006, at 12:44:11
They have the test there.
I thought diabetics were given orange juice because it instantly affected them. But apparently it has a much lower rating than Rice Krispies do.
It has 46 to 57 according to the type.
But they say on their rating that that is low.
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Low GI = 55 or less
Medium GI = 56 - 69
High GI = 70 or more
[/quote]Any way to just buy something you can stick to your vein, and get just what you need to be healthy, and not have to eat at all?
Or any health drinks or foods that contain just what you need, and nothing you don't, which I can quickly consume, ignoring the taste? I want to make things easy.
Posted by Declan on September 3, 2006, at 1:05:40
In reply to Glycemic Index. give me food through vein please, posted by Wolf Dreamer on September 2, 2006, at 16:45:52
The trick (as I understand it) is to avoid abdominal obesity, especially if you are a bloke.
The fat cells there express aromatase which converts testosterone into oestrogen
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