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Healthy Bites 4/14/21

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Here's how you can eat, think, and move this week in order to live your healthiest life.

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What are "good" carbs?

For those of you who are trying to watch your carbs or manage blood sugars, you have probably been told to stick to eating "good carbs". But what exactly are good carbs? For the most part good carbs would (1) be whole foods and (2) have a low glycemic index or load.

Okay, whole foods you can probably figure out - nothing processed. But what about the whole glycemic index/load thing? That’s not too difficult to figure out either. The glycemic index is a measure of how quickly the sugars from foods (carbs) are absorbed by the body. Foods with a low glycemic index release their sugars more slowly than those with a higher glycemic index. This leads to less of a spike in insulin (which is a good thing).

The glycemic index (GI) was calculated experimentally by feeding healthy subjects a food containing 50 grams of carbohydrates and then measuring...

What has sugar got to do with breast cancer?

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Hi there! I am Dr. Lisa Schwartz and today I am going to talk about the impact that sugar consumption can have on cancer and other chronic diseases. This involves talking about something called the glycemic index and chronic inflammation.

Sugar is a carbohydrate. Carbohydrates serve as an immediate source of energy for our cells. When you eat a carbohydrate, it can release its sugar into the bloodstream very quickly or relatively slowly. This fact alone plays a very important role in determining how healthy that carb will be for you.

So carbohydrates can be categorized according to how quickly they release sugar into the bloodstream. A spoonful of table sugar gets absorbed into the bloodstream very quickly and rapidly raises blood sugar levels.

As a consequence, your body releases a big batch of insulin to bring the blood sugar down to a normal level. Insulin takes the sugar out of the bloodstream and puts it...

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