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How do carbohydrates and the Glycemic Index work together and with L-arginine?
While one of the hottest diet related issues right now is certainly L-arginine, another is the glycemic index. Thanks to ongoing research our understanding of diets and dieting is constantly under revision. We have come to understand that contrary to what was believed before, the fat in our diets is not what is making us fat. Furthermore, protein will not make us fat either unless we resort to a very high protein regimen in which the protein tells the body to increase the size of the fat cell. Research is showing us that it is actually certain carbohydrates that are making us fat. For example, rice cakes, which contain no fat are actually more fattening than a bowl of ice cream. Rice cakes are 600 times more fattening than a bowl of sugar. Rice cakes stimulate the fat storing in human cells. Ice cream and sugar have a lower glycemic index than rice cakes. (Glycemic index is a measurement of how much a particular food increases our blood sugar level resulting in increased body weight.) It is clear that we have been wrong about our notion of what it is that is making us fat. No wonder a lot of diets do not work.
Can a low glycemic diet be enhanced by the presence of L-arginine supplementation?
Dietary induced thermogenesis is a dietary approach involving eating low glycemic foods that readily burn as energy and are not stored in fat cells. This is an effective way to lose body fat. This also promotes the loss of body fat around the heart and organs, which can prevent disease and slow down the aging process. Restricting your dietary intake to low glycemic foods and drinks is external. But fat in the body can also be attacked on internal level as well. Increasing your body's internal thermogenesis, through the supplementation of L-arginine definitely enhances the fat burning process on an internal thermogenic level. This process of attacking fat burning on two different levels, internally and externally is a synergistic approach that is a powerful way to reduce body fat, reduce the incidence of disease and slow down the aging process.
Obesity is related to an increase in the insulin levels in the blood. How does this relate to diabetes?
Type-II diabetes, or adult onset diabetes, develops as adults get older and become fatter. The levels of insulin in your blood become elevated, resulting in hypo-glycemia and the diabetes. Type-I diabetes is the opposite situation. In this case you do not produce enough insulin. The disease of obesity is diabetes. In America we have the highest rate of diabetes because we are the fattest country in the world. As we increase fat cells and body weight we increase the risk of developing diabetes. Eating fat-storing carbohydrates such as rice cakes, potatoes, bananas and rice stimulate blood glucose levels to increase which results in higher levels of insulin. This is very unhealthy for the human body. It can lead to cardio-vascular disease, hormonal cancers, diabetes and all sorts of diseases of aging. To stop eating foods that stimulate insulin production will prevent those diseases (including cancer and diabetes), will allow the body to grow old gracefully and stay young longer.
A low glycemic diet or one that does not stimulate the production of high blood sugar levels followed by the production of too much insulin, can be achieved by eating low glycemic foods. It is not a matter of giving up food and obsessively counting calories. It is all about becoming familiar with the glycemic levels of particular foods and drinks and then making better choices. For example, potatoes have a high glycemic index while sweet potatoes do not. Bananas are high but cherries, berries and grapes are low.
L-Arginine is another suppliment to help prevent neuropathy along with Lipoic Acid
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