Why Performance Diet's Low Glycemic Information is Important to You as a Dieter or Athlete

High glycemic foods elevate insulin and blood glucose, stimulate fat-storage, exacerbate hyperactivity, reduce sports performance and increase the risk of Type II diabetes. (The United States population currently reflects the fastest growing rate of diabetes in the world.)

Low glycemic foods do not stimulate food-craving hormones like Neuropeptide Y and Lipoprotein Lipase. Stimulation of these hormones can cause chemically triggered cravings for food and uncontrolled eating binges.

Low glycemic diets can offer you a unique set of benefits. They:

1. do not stimulate fat storage,
2. reduce appetite,
3. enhance sports performance,
4. improve energy levels while reducing sugar-related energy and/or mood swings,
5. improve muscle to fat ratio,
6. enhance mental alertness,
7. allow you to eat more calories, and,
8. may help lower blood lipids.
9. Low-glycemic food plans have been proven to reduce the incidence of Type II diabetes and to help control Type I and II diabetes, hypoglycemia and hypertension.

How the Performance diet uses this research to maximize your diet's success.

Almost every major best-selling diet book over the last 10 years (including Dr. Atkins, the Zone Diet, Protein Power, Carbohydrate Addicts, Suzanne Sommers, Sugar Busters, Swartzbein etc.) has built its success on an eating plan for not triggering the sugar insulin response that makes your body store fat. Every current best selling diet book indirectly (and some directly) recommends consumption of foods with a low blood glucose and insulin response (low glycemic foods) to successfully lose weight and keep it off. Even the Atkins Diet is rumored to soon be coming out with a new low glycemic version. Each of these best selling diet books discusses how a high blood glucose insulin response (high glycemic) food signals the body to store fat rather than burn it.

Each book then offers a slightly different solution to managing the blood glucose insulin response challenge. Unfortunately almost every one of them recommends controlling the critical sugar insulin response of carbohydrates by either:

• drastically cutting down all carbohydrates

• completely eliminating carbohydrates

• eating too much protein and fat.

This is potentially unhealthy, unbalanced nutritionally and may be a recipe for mortgaging your future health for a fleeting short-term weight loss. Because the low glycemic research was not available to these diet book authors, their solutions were structured around cutting too many carbohydrates out of the diet as a complete food type rather than a simple do-able plan to cut out just the unhealthy high glycemic sugars and cut total sugar intake to healthier levels. This is what the "Healthy Sugar” segment of the Performance Diet Program is all about — a simple and do-able plan to cut just the unhealthy high glycemic sugars and cut total sugar intake to healthier levels to help create a lasting and healthy weight loss!

The books listed above (and all the other popular diet books over the last 10 years) are owed a debt for increasing the public awareness of the critical role of sugar and insulin response in fat storage.

How the NutriCode will make dieting choices easier.

The NutriCode invention found only in HealthKeeper software, the Performance Diet and in the free 10,000 food Nutricode data base on this web site, is another powerful and exclusive tool that will help you get the lasting, safe results you are seeking. Click here and keep reading to see how this innovation graphically empowers nutritional information to help improve your diet understanding, diet choices, diet ease and diet results.

Click here to find out more about all the low glycemic features and how the software uses the glycemic research.

Click here for more on the low glycemic revolution and the low glycemic community.