Best Diet In the World. How to Start a Low Carbohydrate Diet. Glycemic Index for All Foods 2016


Best Diet In the World. 
How to Start a Low Carbohydrate Diet. 

Diabetes and Glucose Intolerance is an international epidemic. Most MDs tell all their patients to focus on eating low carbohydrate foods with a low glycemic index or a low glycemic load, which is a better term. You may have read a previous post that discussed the need to limit total daily carbohydrate intake to less than 40-60 grams total per day; some surgeons I know would say we should limit total carbohydrate intake to 24-48 grams per day as the body’s insulin, even with low insulin levels can handle about 1-2 grams of carbohydrates per hour. Most patients will find limiting carbohydrates to such a significant extent to be almost impossible.


Thus we start in baby steps little by little, limiting total carbohydrate intake.


Note that it is the fluctuation of sugar that is generally the cause of the devastating consequences of diabetes, so the ultimate goal is to keep your body’s blood sugar level as low and stable as possible. 


The First Step is getting rid of gluten and all wheat products (in Spanish, “limitar todo arina, trigo”)


Second, we count how many carbohydrates are going into your mouth. Start limiting this as much as possible. It is better to stick with plenty of veggies and beans if needed but in some diabetic patients even too many beans can be of a concern so watch your daily sugars and HgA1C (test of how your blood sugar levels have been doing for the last 3 months).


Third pay attention to low Glycemic Index/low Glycemic Load foods: see below list. Try to eat only as low carbohydrate food as possible per serving: if you need a choice, always choose a low glycemic load food versus a high one but be ware that even low glycemic load/index foods can raise your blood sugar.


Fourth: you will have to make choices carefully in some cases. If you are going to eat a food with more carbohydrates or high GI/ GL, you need to exercise right after to avoid the sugar spike in your blood that leads to blindness and all the issues that diabetes, an epidemic, causes.


Here is more information that will help.


The glycemic index (GI) is a value assigned to foods based on how slowly or how quickly those foods cause increases in blood glucose levels. It is essential to know the GI of all the foods you put in your mouth if you are pre-diabetic or have diabetes. I ask all my patients for their Hemaglobin A1C (HgA1C)


Also known as “blood sugar,” blood glucose levels above normal are toxic, increase Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) levels in the body which cause new, abnormal blood vessels to grow which easily leak. This is what leads to blindness, kidney failure, stroke, heart attack or increase cardiovascular risk in patients with Diabetes. Most doctors agree that Diabetes has the risk of leading to a slow, painful death, which is painful for all involved and we want to prevent Diabetes at all cost. 


So read on to avoid Diabetes by eating a very low carbohydrate/low glycemic index foods.


Sandra Lora Cremers, MD, FAC


Below modified from: 
http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glycemic_index_and_glycemic_load_for_100_foods


http://www.montignac.com/en/search-for-a-specific-glycemic-index/


Foods low on the glycemic index (GI) scale tend to release glucose slowly and steadily. Foods high on the glycemic index release glucose rapidly. Low GI foods tend to foster weight loss, while foods high on the GI scale help with energy recovery after exercise, or to offset hypo- (or insufficient) glycemia. Long-distance runners would tend to favor foods high on the glycemic index, while people with pre- or full-blown diabetes would need to concentrate on low GI foods. Why? People with diabetes can’t produce sufficient quantities of insulin—which helps process blood sugar—which means they are likely to have an excess of blood glucose. The slow and steady release of glucose in low-glycemic foods is helpful in keeping blood glucose under control.


But the glycemic index tells only part of the story. What it doesn’t tell you is how high your blood sugar could go when you actually eat the food, which is partly determined by how much carbohydrate is in an individual serving. To understand a food’s complete effect on blood sugar, you need to know both how quickly the food makes glucose enter the bloodstream, and how much glucose it will deliver. A separate value called glycemic load does that. It gives a more accurate picture of a food’s real-life impact on blood sugar. The glycemic load is determined by multiplying the grams of a carbohydrate in a serving by the glycemic index, then dividing by 100. A glycemic load of 10 or below is considered low; 20 or above is considered high. Watermelon, for example, has a high glycemic index (80). But a serving of watermelon has so little carbohydrate (6 grams) that its glycemic load is only 5.

To help you understand how the foods you are eating might impact your blood glucose level, here is a listing of the glycemic index and glycemic load, per serving, for more than 100 common foods.

Glycemic Index for All Foods 2016


Read a good explanation by Dr. Davis below as well: http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2015/02/dietitians-folly-glycemic-index-gi/



The average GI of 62 common foods derived from multiple studies by different laboratories
High-carbohydrate foods Breakfast cereals Fruit and fruit products Vegetables
White wheat bread* 75 ± 2 Cornflakes 81 ± 6 Apple, raw† 36 ± 2 Potato, boiled 78 ± 4
Whole wheat/whole meal bread 74 ± 2 Wheat flake biscuits 69 ± 2 Orange, raw† 43 ± 3 Potato, instant mash 87 ± 3
Specialty grain bread 53 ± 2 Porridge, rolled oats 55 ± 2 Banana, raw† 51 ± 3 Potato, french fries 63 ± 5
Unleavened wheat bread 70 ± 5 Instant oat porridge 79 ± 3 Pineapple, raw 59 ± 8 Carrots, boiled 39 ± 4
Wheat roti 62 ± 3 Rice porridge/congee 78 ± 9 Mango, raw† 51 ± 5 Sweet potato, boiled 63 ± 6
Chapatti 52 ± 4 Millet porridge 67 ± 5 Watermelon, raw 76 ± 4 Pumpkin, boiled 64 ± 7
Corn tortilla 46 ± 4 Muesli 57 ± 2 Dates, raw 42 ± 4 Plantain/green banana 55 ± 6
White rice, boiled* 73 ± 4 Peaches, canned† 43 ± 5 Taro, boiled 53 ± 2
Brown rice, boiled 68 ± 4 Strawberry jam/jelly 49 ± 3 Vegetable soup 48 ± 5
Barley 28 ± 2 Apple juice 41 ± 2
Sweet corn 52 ± 5 Orange juice 50 ± 2
Spaghetti, white 49 ± 2
Spaghetti, whole meal 48 ± 5
Rice noodles† 53 ± 7
Udon noodles 55 ± 7
Couscous† 65 ± 4
Dairy products and alternatives Legumes Snack products Sugars
Milk, full fat 39 ± 3 Chickpeas 28 ± 9 Chocolate 40 ± 3 Fructose 15 ± 4
Milk, skim 37 ± 4 Kidney beans 24 ± 4 Popcorn 65 ± 5 Sucrose 65 ± 4
Ice cream 51 ± 3 Lentils 32 ± 5 Potato crisps 56 ± 3 Glucose 103 ± 3
Yogurt, fruit 41 ± 2 Soya beans 16 ± 1 Soft drink/soda 59 ± 3 Honey 61 ± 3
Soy milk 34 ± 4 Rice crackers/crisps 87 ± 2
Rice milk 86 ± 7
Data are means ± SEM.
↵* Low-GI varieties were also identified. 
↵† Average of all available data.
FOOD Glycemic index (glucose = 100) Serving size (grams) Glycemic load per serving
BAKERY PRODUCTS AND BREADS
Banana cake, made with sugar 47 60 14
Banana cake, made without sugar 55 60 12
Sponge cake, plain 46 63 17
Vanilla cake made from packet mix with vanilla frosting (Betty Crocker) 42 111 24
Apple muffin, made with rolled oats and sugar 44 60 13
Apple muffin, made with rolled oats and without sugar 48 60 9
Waffles, Aunt Jemima® 76 35 10
Bagel, white, frozen 72 70 25
Baguette, white, plain 95 30 14
Coarse barley bread, 80% kernels 34 30 7
Hamburger bun 61 30 9
Kaiser roll 73 30 12
Pumpernickel bread 56 30 7
50% cracked wheat kernel bread 58 30 12
White wheat flour bread, average 75 30 11
Wonder® bread, average 73 30 10
Whole wheat bread, average 69 30 9
100% Whole Grain® bread (Natural Ovens) 51 30 7
Pita bread, white 68 30 10
Corn tortilla 52 50 12
Wheat tortilla 30 50 8
FOOD Glycemic index (glucose = 100) Serving size (grams) Glycemic load per serving
BEVERAGES
Coca Cola® (US formula) 63 250 mL 16
Fanta®, orange soft drink 68 250 mL 23
Lucozade®, original (sparkling glucose drink) 95 250 mL 40
Apple juice, unsweetened 41 250 mL 12
Cranberry juice cocktail (Ocean Spray®) 68 250 mL 24
Gatorade, orange flavor (US formula) 89 250 mL 13
Orange juice, unsweetened, average 50 250 mL 12
Tomato juice, canned, no sugar added 38 250 mL 4
BREAKFAST CEREALS AND RELATED PRODUCTS
All-Bran®, average 44 30 9
Coco Pops®, average 77 30 20
Cornflakes®, average 81 30 20
Cream of Wheat® 66 250 17
Cream of Wheat®, Instant 74 250 22
Grape-Nuts® 75 30 16
Muesli, average 56 30 10
Oatmeal, average 55 250 13
Instant oatmeal, average 79 250 21
Puffed wheat cereal 80 30 17
Raisin Bran® 61 30 12
Special K® (US formula) 69 30 14
FOOD Glycemic index (glucose = 100) Serving size (grams) Glycemic load per serving
GRAINS
Pearled barley, average 25 150 11
Sweet corn on the cob 48 60 14
Couscous 65 150 9
Quinoa 53 150 13
White rice, boiled, type non-specified 72 150 29
Quick cooking white basmati 63 150 26
Brown rice, steamed 50 150 16
Parboiled Converted white rice (Uncle Ben’s®) 38 150 14
Whole wheat kernels, average 45 50 15
Bulgur, average 47 150 12
FOOD Glycemic index (glucose = 100) Serving size (grams) Glycemic load per serving
COOKIES AND CRACKERS
Graham crackers 74 25 13
Vanilla wafers 77 25 14
Shortbread 64 25 10
Rice cakes, average 82 25 17
Rye crisps, average 64 25 11
Soda crackers 74 25 12
DAIRY PRODUCTS AND ALTERNATIVES
Ice cream, regular, average 62 50 8
Ice cream, premium (Sara Lee®) 38 50 3
Milk, full-fat, average 31 250 mL 4
Milk, skim, average 31 250 mL 4
Reduced-fat yogurt with fruit, average 33 200 11
FRUITS
Apple, average 36 120 5
Banana, raw, average 48 120 11
Dates, dried, average 42 60 18
Grapefruit 25 120 3
Grapes, black 59 120 11
Oranges, raw, average 45 120 5
Peach, average 42 120 5
Peach, canned in light syrup 52 120 9
Pear, raw, average 38 120 4
Pear, canned in pear juice 44 120 5
Prunes, pitted 29 60 10
Raisins 64 60 28
Watermelon 72 120 4
FOOD Glycemic index (glucose = 100) Serving size (grams) Glycemic load per serving
BEANS AND NUTS
Baked beans 40 150 6
Black-eyed peas 50 150 15
Black beans 30 150 7
Chickpeas 10 150 3
Chickpeas, canned in brine 42 150 9
Navy beans, average 39 150 12
Kidney beans, average 34 150 9
Lentils 28 150 5
Soy beans, average 15 150 1
Cashews, salted 22 50 3
Peanuts 13 50 1
PASTA and NOODLES
Fettucini 32 180 15
Macaroni, average 50 180 24
Macaroni and Cheese (Kraft®) 64 180 33
Spaghetti, white, boiled, average 46 180 22
Spaghetti, white, boiled 20 min 58 180 26
Spaghetti, whole-grain, boiled 42 180 17
SNACK FOODS
Corn chips, plain, salted 42 50 11
Fruit Roll-Ups® 99 30 24
M & M’s®, peanut 33 30 6
Microwave popcorn, plain, average 65 20 7
Potato chips, average 56 50 12
Pretzels, oven-baked 83 30 16
Snickers Bar®, average 51 60 18
FOOD Glycemic index (glucose = 100) Serving size (grams) Glycemic load per serving
VEGETABLES
Green peas 54 80 4
Carrots, average 39 80 2
Parsnips 52 80 4
Baked russet potato 111 150 33
Boiled white potato, average 82 150 21
Instant mashed potato, average 87 150 17
Sweet potato, average 70 150 22
Yam, average 54 150 20
MISCELLANEOUS
Hummus (chickpea salad dip) 6 30 0
Chicken nuggets, frozen, reheated in microwave oven 5 min 46 100 7
Pizza, plain baked dough, served with parmesan cheese and tomato sauce 80 100 22
Pizza, Super Supreme (Pizza Hut®) 36 100 9
Honey, average 61 25 12

Beans, Italian flat beans, runner
GI 15
Mung beans, moong dal
GI 25
Beans, flageolet, fayot beans
GI 25
Chinese noodles/vermicelli (made from soy or mung beans)
GI 30
Beans, string green beans
GI 30
Beans (white, haricot beans, cannellini beans, faziola beans)
GI 30
Chick peas, garbanzo beans
GI 35
Black beans
GI 35
Kidney/pinto beans
GI 35
Cassoulet (meat and beans French dish)
GI 35
Chick peas, garbanzo beans (tin/can)
GI 35
Kidney/pinto beans (tin/can)
GI 40
Falafel (fava beans)
GI 40
Beans, fava, broad beans, horse beans (raw)
GI 40

The Dietitian’s Folly: Glycemic Index (GI)

Carbs 123rfHere is an excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health, chapter 7: Grainless Living Day-to-Day.
Glycemic index, or GI, describes how high blood sugar climbs over 90 minutes after consuming a food compared to glucose.
The GI of a chicken drumstick? Zero: No impact on blood sugar. How about three fried eggs? Zero, too. This is true for other meats, oils and fats, nuts, seeds, mushrooms, and non-starchy vegetables. You eat any of these foods and blood sugar doesn’t budge, no glycation phenomena follow, no glucotoxicity, no lipotoxicity.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the concept of GI nor of the related concept, glycemic load, GL, a measure that also factors in the quantity of food. The problem is how the values for GI and GL are interpreted. For instance, categories of GI are arbitrarily broken down into:
High glycemic index 70 or greater
Moderate glycemic index 56-69
Low glycemic index 55 or less
This is like being a little bit more or less pregnant. By this scheme, cornflakes, puffed rice, and pretzels have “high“ GIs above 70, while whole grain bread, oatmeal, and rice have “low” GIs. A typical non-diabetic person consuming a typical serving of cornflakes, e.g., 1 cup cereal in ½ cup milk, will thereby experience a blood sugar in the neighborhood of 180 mg/dl—very high and more than sufficient to set the process of glycation and glucotoxicity on fire, add to adrenal disruption, cataract formation, destruction of cartilage, hypertension, heart disease, and neurological deterioration or dementia. (Blood sugars will vary, depending on body weight, degree of overweight, insulin sensitivity, time of day, and other factors, but this would be typical. Someone with pre-diabetes or diabetes will have a higher blood sugar.)
How about a low-glycemic index food, such as a bowl of oatmeal, 1 cup cooked, in ½ cup milk? A typical response: blood sugar 170 mg/dl—lower, yes, but still quite awful, triggering all the same undesirable phenomena triggered by the high-glycemic cornflakes. This is why I believe “low” GI is more accurately labeled “less-high” GI, not “low.” Alternatively, we could just recognize that any GI above single digits should be regarded as high because it’s not until you get to single digits or zero that blood sugars no longer range into destructive levels.
The concept of “glycemic load” tries to take this into account by factoring in portion size. Thus the GL of cornflakes is 23, while the GL of oatmeal is 13 and that of whole wheat bread is 10. GL is usually interpreted as:
High glycemic load 20 or greater
Moderate glycemic load 11-19
Low glycemic load 10 or less
Once again, this lulls you into thinking that foods like oatmeal or whole wheat bread don’t raise blood sugar—but they do. They are not low glycemic load; they have less high glycemic loads.
The value that truly appears to count and predict whether or not we will have a blood sugar rise? Grams of carbohydrate. Specifically, “net” grams of carbohydrate calculated by subtracting fiber:
“Net” carbohydrates = total carbohydrates – fiber
Net carbohydrates is a concept popularized by the late Dr. Robert Atkins, who recognized that fiber has no impact on blood sugar despite being lumped together with other carbohydrates. (Fiber is technically a carbohydrate, or polysaccharide, but humans lack the enzymes to digest most fibers into sugars.) In other words, there is really no need for manipulations such as glycemic index or glycemic load.
If you were to test blood sugars with a common finger stick glucose meter (as many of us, diabetic and non-diabetic, often do to gauge the effect of different foods) 30-60 minutes after consuming a food, you would see that it takes most of us around 14-15 grams of “net” carbohydrates before we begin to see a rise above the starting value. We check blood sugars at 30-60 minutes after consuming a food. The peak can actually occur before or after 30-60 minutes, depending on the mix of protein, fat, fiber, the amount of water or other liquids, pH of the food, and other factors. This is just an approximation that allows you to perform a single finger stick, rather than every few minutes. What we don’t do is check blood sugar two hours after consumption, as advised by most physicians interested in blood sugar control on diabetes medications. This seems obvious, but is a common tripping point when discussed with doctors.
Ideally, little to no rise in blood sugar is allowed. In this way, you have turned off any excess levels of glycation and glucotoxicity, undo the effects of high insulin and insulin resistance, and allow fasting blood sugars to drift downward over time.
There is another common fiction—or perhaps half-truth might be a better term—prevailing in nutritional thinking offered by the dietary community that tells us that, if a high-glycemic index food is consumed along with proteins, fats, or fiber, i.e., foods with low- or zero- glycemic index, that the net glycemic effect will be much improved. For this reason, dietitians often advise people to consume, say, bread with peanut butter: the high blood sugar potential of the bread is blunted by the low-glycemic protein, fat, and fiber of the peanut butter. As often occurs in the flawed logic of nutrition, this is another example of something being less bad, not necessarily good. For instance, a typical blood sugar in a middle-aged mildly overweight male after consuming two slices of multigrain bread made with whole wheat flour, oats, and millet on an empty stomach might be 170 mg/dl—high enough to provoke insulin, cortisol, insulin resistance, visceral fat accumulation, inflammation, the phenomena of glycation and glucotoxicity, and add to dementia risk. In another session, again starting with an empty stomach, the same male consumes two slices of multigrain bread, but this time with several slices of turkey (mostly protein), mayonnaise (mostly fat), and lettuce (mostly fiber and water). Blood sugar: 160 mg/dl—better, yes, but still pretty awful and more than sufficient to generate all the phenomena generated at a blood sugar of 170 mg/dl, including brain atrophy.
Less bad is not necessarily good. Feel free to count your carbs, but ignore the misleading concepts of glycemic index and glycemic load. Use those tables of glycemic index you might have to line your box of cat litter, but don’t use them to construct a healthy diet.
Almond milk, Blue Diamond Unsweetened
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The good: This food is very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol. It is also a very good source of Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol) and Calcium.

The bad: This food is high in Sodium.

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NUTRITION INFORMATION
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Calorie Information
Amounts Per Selected Serving
%DV
Calories
40.0
(167 kJ)
2%
  From Carbohydrate
6.0
(25.1 kJ)
 
  From Fat
30.0
(126 kJ)
 
  From Protein
4.0
(16.7 kJ)
 
  From Alcohol
~
(0.0 kJ)
 


Carbohydrates
Amounts Per Selected Serving
%DV
Total Carbohydrate
2.0
g
1%

Dietary Fiber

1.0
g
4%

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0.0
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Fats & Fatty Acids
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Total Fat
3.0
g
5%

Saturated Fat

0.0
g
0%

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Total trans fatty acids

0.0
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Total trans-monoenoic fatty acids

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~
 
 

Total Omega-3 fatty acids

~
 
 

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Protein
1.0
g
2%


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Vitamin A
500
IU
10%
Vitamin C
0.0
mg
0%
Vitamin D
100.0
IU
25%
Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol)
10.0
mg
50%
Vitamin K
~
 
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Thiamin
~
 
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Riboflavin
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Niacin
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Betaine
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200
mg
20%
Iron
0.4
mg
2%
Magnesium
16.0
mg
4%
Phosphorus
40.0
mg
4%
Potassium
~
 
~
Sodium
180
mg
8%
Zinc
~
 
~
Copper
~
 
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Manganese
~
 
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Selenium
~
 
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~
 
 


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0.0
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Footnotes for Almond milk, Blue Diamond Unsweetened
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