Why White Flour?
Which foods cause the highest spikes in blood sugar levels? That’s easy. Carbohydrates do and refined carbohydrates do it the most. If you are serious about keeping a normal blood sugar level refined carbohydrates need to go, or at least be minimized on your diet. What are refined carbohydrates? White flour and just about any bread you buy off of the grocery store shelf, no matter what the wrapper says. Sugary breakfast cereals, any “breakfast foods” that come in a package, along with soda pop and all fast food. Does that sound like your diet? It probably does because that’s the diet for many people.
In fact that diet makes it virtually impossible to maintain a normal blood sugar level. The sugar filled foods cause a spike in blood sugar, which causes increased insulin secretion to deal with the sugar and then your blood sugar plummets because of the extra amount of insulin secreted. You get hunger pangs, go back to the refined carbohydrates and the cycle begins all over again.
If you really want to change and eat better a good place to start is eliminating soda pop entirely. It’s extra sugar and empty calories that you don’t need. Diet pop can be a stepping stone to going cold turkey straight to water, but some of the artificial sweeteners can cause as many issues as the extra sugar they replace. Some people tolerate them well and other s don’t. The next step is to remove all white flour and products made with it from your diet. That means virtually all baked goods that come in a package. It will be hard, but worth it in the end. Dr. Gott, of newspaper column fame, has diet book, “The No Sugar, No Flour Diet”. Look it up if you need ideas on substitutes for that food and recommendations to go along with the ideas.
Drastic changes in your eating habits may feel like torture in the beginning, but will pay off with better health, normal blood sugar levels and a longer life in the end.
March 22 2010 09:49 pm | nutrition