4. Controlling Blood Sugar is Easier Now Than Ever
High blood sugar will result from overeating, eating processed foods or eating High Glycemic Index foods. Once the blood sugar level is perceived by the body to be too high, insulin is released in a higher than normal amount from the pancreas.
Normal levels of insulin don’t damage the body, but high levels do and will shift your metabolism to fat-storing and inflammation. They’ll also predispose you to develop diabetes.
High blood sugar causes glycation in the tissues – the gnarling of the tissues and accelerates the damage caused by AGEs. The AGEs are associated with dementia.
The next time you reach for a second or third helping of foods at the dinner table, ask yourself whether the taste is worth gnarled tissues.
5. Eating High Glycemic Index Foods
Carbohydrate foods are rated on a scale of 0 to 100 according to how high they raise your blood sugar levels. If they don’t raise blood sugar that high, they’re called a Low Glycemic Index food. If they raise blood sugar very high and are rated 67 or higher, they they’re High Glycemic Index Foods.
Once your levels of blood sugar rise, the blood sugar level has to go somewhere and it starts to be deposited in the tissues in your body, including your brain. And that’s when the glycation starts.
Giving up processed foods in the diet takes a little commitment but imagine feeling on top of your game intellectually every minute of the day at your job and at home. There’s so much value in this.
To learn more about the Glycemic Index, see https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Glycemic_index_and_glycemic_load_for_100_foods.htm