Lose Weight With The GI Diet

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Today a staggering 65% of Americans are overweight and 33% are obese. Obesity has also increased at an alarming rate among teenagers and young children. Amazingly 100 years ago obesity was unknown in the USA. So what has gone so badly wrong in the latter part of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st century? Many would have you believe their problem with obesity and weight loss is hereditary. Well that is hardly likely if their ancestors were not obese.

However there may be a small amount of truth in the hereditary argument as it is more than likely that at some point what has become a hereditary issue is their eating habits. Children will pick up the eating habits of their parents, so once bad eating habits are established within a family they can be very hard to break.

There can also be a tension within families to put on weight more easily than others. This however should not be used as an excuse for being overweight but rather a reason to find a way of eating that does not end up in obesity.

Research done in France disclosed that 15% of obese people simply ate too much, 35% appeared to eat normally and a staggering 50% ate too little. These statistics certainly leave a few unanswered questions on the table re the subject of weight loss ..

The time has come for more innovative approaches to weight loss. A Frenchman called Michel Montignac, has devised a dietary program as a result of a need to resolve his own weight problems. The diet which is called the Montignac diet uses the glycemic index (GI) of foods to help you to lose weight and maintain that weight loss. The GI diet has been used in the past for diabetes patients but never before for weight loss.

Montignac discovered that the key factor in obesity was the consumption of foods with a high GI rating. He also discovered that it is possible to lose weight quite successfully by only eating foods with a low GI. The GI is basically a measure of the ability of a given carbohydrate to increase blood sugar levels. The lower the GI the less likely it is to cause you to put on weight

There are currently many lists available that indicate the GI level of certain foods. These list are there to help ensure that you only consume foods with a low GI, especially if you are on a diet. If you follow the GI diet it will unduly help you to lose weight.

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Source by Janet L. Matthews