The Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmune Disease and Heal Your Body by Sarah Ballantyne

Author:Sarah Ballantyne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781936608393
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
Published: 2014-01-28T08:00:00+00:00

Glycemic load has been mentioned several times throughout this book as a tool for making sure that your blood-sugar levels remain well regulated, which is critical for normalizing hormones and resolving inflammation. Being mindful of glycemic load amounts to being mindful of how the foods you eat impact your blood sugar. Carbohydrates encompass starches, sugars, and fiber—and both sugars and starches impact your blood-glucose level in proportion to how much you consume and how quickly your food is digested. But your body still requires carbohydrates, and the foods that contain them (vegetables and fruit) are still nutrient-dense foods. So how do you eat well and make sure that your blood sugar is well regulated?

Recall that glycemic load is a measure of how quickly the sugars in a specific food impact your blood sugar, corrected for how carbohydrate dense that food actually is (see here). Almost all high-glycemic-load foods are omitted on the Paleo Approach because they tend to be grains, pseudo-grains, legumes, and refined sugars. (Dried fruit is the only high-glycemic-load food that is allowed and should be considered an indulgence.) What’s left are mostly low-glycemic-load foods with a few moderate-glycemic-load vegetables and fruits.

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