You may have heard of the Glycemic Index or GI before. “The Glycemic index is a measure of how quickly a carbohydrate food converts to sugar in our blood and how high it spikes your blood sugar” Many factors can determine the GI of a food, for example. Ripeness – a banana, new from the […]
CONTINUE READINGIn order to properly control our blood sugar we must do 2 things. Eat every 3 hours and, Eat Low Gylcemic. By eating every 3 hours we not only minimise the highs and the lows of our blood sugar but we also speed up our metabolism. Much like a stream train fireman hovels coal into […]
CONTINUE READINGAlso known as ‘cellular nutrition’. We simply must feed our bodies from a cellular level. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, all dying and replicating every second of the day without us even thinking about it. If our cells do not have the correct amounts and ratios of essential nutrients available at […]
CONTINUE READINGPhilosophy 1: Calorie and/or carbohydrate restriction and deprivation Most people would have encountered this popular nutrition philosophy, most clearly explained in the phrase “calories in versus calories out”. The idea is that by exceeding energy input with energy output, you will put your body into deficit – allowing your body to burn existing fat and […]
CONTINUE READINGWhy fad diets don’t work The first problem with fad diets is that they’re impossible to maintain. Nutrition programmes based on restriction and deprivation will not only leave you feeling tired and frustrated, they will lead you to weight plateaus and potentially malnutrition. Inevitably, these diets will fail – leading to a ‘yo-yo’ effect that […]
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