Glycemic Index 101

The Facts about Insulin

Chapter 6: Glycemic Index and Insulin

Insulin is a hormone that is produced and released from the pancreas. Its major responsibility is compared to that of an air traffic controller. It lets the body’s cells know when they have been fed sufficiently and need no further nutrients. (Doesn’t that sound familiar? Not even our cells know when to stop eating!)

Next, insulin re-supplies and routes all extra glucose from your meal into the liver and the muscles to be stored short-term as a kind of “fat” to be used first before all other fat deposits when energy is needed again. In other words, every time you overfeed your body with too many sugars, fats, or proteins, your body stores these extras and burn them instead of all of the extra weight and fat that you already have deposited on your body

Eating a lot of high GI foods on a regular basis forces your insulin to continuously be released. Calling upon your insulin to react to all of this glucose can cause something called “insulin resistance” where your insulin cannot keep up with the workload and simply diminishes.

People who have no insulin response or if they have very low insulin levels released are considered diabetic. Their bodies cannot digest and route glucose or for that matter, any sugar or carbohydrate and they must provide their bodies with an artificial atmosphere by receiving injections of insulin every day.

The complications of diabetes are enormous and will be covered in more depth later in this report. If you are not familiar with diabetes, please, take the time to research it even after reading this report. It is so common that people seem to “play it down” as if it is no big deal. It is a very big deal. Diabetes can lead to so many serious complications and ultimately death.

But, there is hope. By following the recommendations of the Glycemic Index and then by going even further with Glycemic Loading and incorporating the Insulin Index, you may avoid the risk of developing diabetes altogether. The next chapter will go into even more depth of how to avoid diabetes with the Glycemic Index.

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