{"id":145,"date":"2023-07-07T05:32:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2023-07-07T05:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T05:32:22","slug":"glycemic-index-and-optimal-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Glycemic Index and Optimal Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A healthy low Glycemic Index (GI) diet offers both immediate and long term health benefits, particularly in conjunction with other healthy lifestyle practices&#8211;regular physical exercise, sleep hygiene, etc.  It can help control your weight and appetite, and may even improve your mental performance.  Some of the benefits of low GI diets:<br>Better blood sugar control;  Better blood cholesterol levels-especially triglycerides;  Improved alertness;  Improved energy levels;  Easier weight control;  Reduced risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers, and other inflammatory processes.<br>(Story quote and most of above info from Healthy Eating, using the glycemic index for optimal health.  Dr. Susanna Holt.  Metro Books.  NY)  <br><br>With a little guidance and about three weeks of practice you can master the changes and be on your way to a much healthier life.  Helping people work towards optimal health is what I do.  Ask me, I can&#8217;t ask you.<br><br>&#8220;Unhappye are they whyche have more appetite than Thyr stomake&#8221;<br>Sir Thomas Elyor, The Banker of Sapience, 1545<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A healthy low Glycemic Index (GI) diet offers both immediate and long term health benefits, particularly in conjunction with other healthy lifestyle practices&#8211;regular physical exercise, sleep hygiene, etc. It can help control your weight and appetite, and may even improve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/?p=145\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glutenwarrior.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}