Posted on 3rd October 2013 by admin in Health Alerts |LivingFuelTV
carbohydrates, immune system, immunity, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, nutrition, sugar, Super Health, superfood
The dreaded and widely publicized ‘cold and flu season’ is here, a challenging test for our remarkable immune systems. Last week on LivingFuelTV, we looked closely at the shaky science behind the ubiquitous annual flu shot. Does your in-built immune system need the ‘assistance’ of this annual medication to successfully battle the flu bug that seems to run rampant through your children’s school or your workplace? Are there better alternatives? Join me today on LivingFuelTV where you’ll learn the single most important step you can take to naturally bolster your immunity. Plus, you’ll discover the Leukocytic Index and why it’s important to you and your health.
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Posted on 30th May 2012 by admin in Super Health
carbohydrates, glycation, glycemic index, high glycemic foods, KC Craichy, Super Health, superfood
The Glycemic Index is not the most useful index in terms of a particular food’s impact on blood sugar. As mentioned, the GI of a food is based on an amount of that food that contains 50 grams of carbohydrates. However, a single serving of many high GI foods often doesn’t contain 50 grams of carbohydrates. For instance, a watermelon has an extremely high Glycemic Index, but one slice has so few carbohydrates that the index is irrelevant. The Glycemic Load, however, takes into account how many carbohydrates are actually in a serving of food rather than a serving of that same food that contains 50 grams of carbohydrates. To calculate Glycemic Load, you simply multiply the Glycemic Index of a food times the number of carbohydrates in a serving of food and divide it by 100. You’ll find a chart that shows a sample of the Glycemic Load for certain foods in my book The Super Health Diet. A Glycemic Load of 10 or under is considered low. To learn more about Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load, go to www.glycemicindex.com.
KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet
Posted on 6th April 2012 by admin in Super Health
blood glucose, carbohydrates, diet, food, glycemic index, health, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, low-glycemic diet, nutrition, Super Health, superfood
The Glycemic Index (GI) is just one of the many tools you have available to you to improve your dietary control. It classifies foods according to how much they raise blood glucose following ingestion of an amount of the food that contains 50 grams of carbohydrates. The GI was devised as a means to help diabetics in their food selections. One of the values of this general index is that it shows that even among carbohydrates, there is a wide variance of values. For instance, the potato is actually a high glycemic food that can spike one’s insulin levels.
KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet
Posted on 12th March 2012 by admin in Super Health
appetite, carbohydrates, diet, fat storage, food, fructose, ghrelin, glucose, health, insulin, KC Craichy, leptin, Living Fuel, nutrition, sugars, Super Health
Most of the carbohydrates we eat in “natural foods” are made up of a combination of sugars, including glucose and fructose. As I’ve stated, when glucose enters the bloodstream, the body increases its production of insulin to help regulate the sugar in the blood so it can be taken to cells and used for energy. This infusion of sugar also increases the production of the hormone leptin (as discussed earlier), which regulates the body’s appetite and fat storage, and decreases the production of the hormone ghrelin, which helps regulate your food intake.
Fructose, on the other hand, is processed in the liver. When too much fructose enters the liver, and it can’t be processed fast enough for the body to use as sugar, it uses the fructose to produce fats that get sent into the bloodstream as triglycerides. As we’ll see, this produces a cascade of bad effects in the body. High blood triglycerides put us at risk for heart disease, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Another significant issue with fructose is that it can result in glycation at as much as 10 times the rate of glucose or sucrose.
KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet
Posted on 21st January 2012 by admin in Super Health
Advanced Glycation End products, anti-inflammatory, carbohydrates, fiber, glycatation, healthy fats, healthy oils, inflammation, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, nutrition, protein, regulate inflammation, Super Health, superfood
The Four Corners of Superfood Nutrition is low sugar, low glycemic, and loaded with a broad spectrum of antioxidants. It helps regulate and quench the destructive hyper-aging fire of the Big Four. You can slow down your aging process and help stave off heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Within my diet, here are the specifics regarding glycation and anti-inflammation.
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Posted on 10th January 2012 by admin in Super Health
American diet, carbohydrates, degenerative disease, food, health, high glycemic diet, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, nutrition, sugar, Super Health
The extremely high sugar intake in the modern American diet—an average of more than 150 pounds a year per person as compared to an estimated five pounds a year a century ago—has been found to directly relate to numerous degenerative diseases.
America is locked into the sugar cycle of destruction. But it isn’t just plain table sugar that has this destructive effect on one’s health. A high glycemic (or high sugar) biochemical response can also be created in the body by eating foods that rapidly convert to sugar in the bloodstream.
KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet
Posted on 10th January 2012 by admin in Super Health
carbohydrates, diabetes, diet, fat, food, health, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, nutrition, Super Health, superfood, Syndrome X, weight gain, weight loss
Despite other potential benefits, many of today’s diets have us consuming far too many carbohydrates. Indeed, the body’s storage capacity for carbohydrates is quite limited. Excess carbohydrates are converted, via insulin, into glycogen, which is stored in the liver and muscles and easily converted to glucose as a source of energy. It is also converted to cholesterol (LDL) and into saturated fat (triglycerides), which is stored in the adipose (or “fatty”) tissue. Any meal or snack that is high in carbohydrates can cause blood glucose levels to rise too rapidly.
Chronically elevated insulin levels from excess carbohydrates promote fat and block the body’s ability to lose that fat. This vicious cycle leads to blood sugar and endocrine issues, including diabetes and metabolic syndrome, or Syndrome X, which leads to virtually every known disease over the long term. The good news is that many of the “degenerative diseases” and “incurable diseases,” such as type 2 diabetes, Syndrome X, and other endocrine/blood sugar disorders are often completely reversible through the principles taught in this book.
KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet
