I've Got To Cut Back On My Carbs...Interview With The Nutritionist.

Interview with The Nutritionist…
“I’ve got to cut back on my carbs”
The Wake Up Call™ Audio Program CD 2: Interviews with health professionals.

• Listen to doctors, a physiotherapist, a dentist, an optometrist, a nutritionist, a chef and a mum of four
• Listen to what the experts have to say
• Share their knowledge and experience
• Learn from what they are seeing everyday

Read below an extract from my interview with The Nutritionist…

“I’ve got to cut back on my carbs”.  Can you explain this common theory?

Carbohydrates are actually classed according to something called the Glycemic Index and that refers to how quickly that carbohydrate is absorbed once you eat it. Now that’s classed as low Glycemic/high Glycemic and if you’re eating carbohydrates that are very quickly absorbed and digested, they’re basically high Glycemic Index and you don’t get long-lasting energy.  So for example, that would be things like soft drinks, lollies etc. so if you eat them constantly, you never get a long-lasting energy and that’s not good for you; your brain can’t function properly, and you physically cannot function properly so it’s actually not generally the amount of carbohydrate.  It can be the type of carbohydrate that’s being chosen and if there’s insufficient fibre with that carbohydrate, it doesn’t fill you up and you keep eating more and more of it.

How can we include fibre in our diet?

Fibre is fantastic and it actually really fills you up some examples of that; fruit and veggies are the big ones so having two serves of fruit a day and five serves of veggies gets you a long way into it.  Breads and cereals are really important and people think they should cut that out of their daily intake when in fact they should be increasing it more than anything.  It just means choosing wholegrain breads and cereals and you can eat quite a large quantity of that.  Beans and other legumes are an excellent source of fibre.  Nuts and seeds are really good sources also.

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