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I can only speak from my personal experience in this area. :-) I too
went down the path of trying to use the glycemic index to moderate my
situation. While it did help me to find some improvement I soon
realized that I was just kidding myself. One does have to quit eating
*all* grains to make it really work because it is the grains that one is
addicted to in the first place. Wheat and corn were my personal
demons.
In a lab there is a difference between types of carbs, but in my world
they all seem pretty much the same except for the side effects. As an
example: eating lots of fruit raises my BP pretty fast and makes me
giggly. Eating the same grams of carbs as wheat makes me angry like a
hornet and still raises my BP. Eating veggies of the same amount just
raises the BP with little obvious effect on personality.
While I agree that each person is different I would also have to say
that the "Caveman" diet works really well for a very clear reason: it
has no grain in it. Paleo has been the only way that I have ever found
in 15 years of searching that actually lowered my BP on a permanent
basis. If your mother wants to get that BP down in a hurry then she
has to decide which is more important: Grains or health? I chose
health, but it has been a very hard path indeed. I really miss pizza.
:-) <insert image of agony and writhing withdrawal here>
By the way... I am now experimenting with raw paleo and I find that I
can eat a great deal more fruit and veggies than I can with cooked
foods. While the raw animal products can be odd at times they are
still possible. Somehow the raw factor changes all the "normal" ranges
and let's me get by doing different things. Still no grain though as it
is too hard to eat raw! LOL I am however thinking about trying only
sprouted grains to see how that affects me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Robinson" <[log in to unmask]>
> Thanks for all the responses. My mother doesn't have a problem with
> cholesterol, just the HBP. The point I have trouble with is that some
> low-carb authors don't seem to differentiate between refined carbs and
> whole-food carbs like veggies and whole grains. (My mother is not
ready to
> do a completely grain-free diet, but at least is cutting out all
gluten
> grains). The difference in glycemic response is very different between
a
> refined flour product eaten on an empty stomach, and, say, brown rice
eaten
> with low-glycemic foods to bring down the net glycemic index.
>
> So, is it really useful to count total carbs, lumping all carbs
together?
> When you say dumping all the carbs for 2 weeks, do you include
veggies?
>
> I'm also confused about foods like brown rice being, by itself, a high
> glycemic food. I thought that whole grains contain minerals like
chromium
> that naturally help metabolize the sugars.
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