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You could probably get away with a single rule - avoid processed foods and drinks. If a machine is used to break something down, it's invariably increases the G
by alwaysinshade 14y ago
You could probably get away with a single rule - avoid processed foods and drinks. If a machine is used to break something down, it's invariably increases the GI of the foodstuff. Blending a banana into a smoothy will leave you with a higher GI meal than simply eating the banana. Drinking juice leaves you with little to none of the soluble fiber which would slow the release of sugar into your system. Let your body do the work of breaking down your food.
- dredmorbius 14y agojaggederest is paraphrasing Michael Pollan's directive in In Defense of Food. "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants". You could expand the first clause to "Eat real, whole, unprocessed food".
- alwaysinshade 14y agoYou could probably keep it at that point alone - eating a lot of whole, unprocessed food is difficult because of its volume vs caloric density and is typically harder to chew/swallow because a machine hasn't partially digested it for you. Will have to check out that book though. Thanks.
- pault 14y agoMy rules are: don't eat anything you couldn't grow and process in a small garden, get 20+ minutes of exercise per day, don't obsess over your body mass index.