Measuring your glucose level can help you choose the best carbohydrate –

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What makes you thinner: eat less carbs or less fat? Whatever! The news, disclosed last month by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at Stanford University, in the United States, was celebrated by several professionals in the field of slimming: “The focus should be on sustainable strategies. Furthermore, excluding entire food groups does not work and is harmful to health”, says endocrinologist Filippo Pedrinola, from São Paulo.

But menu advocates low carb prefer to keep the idea that the less bread and potatoes the better. adept of paleolithic dietthe American biochemist Robb Wolf adds in the book Scheduled to Eat (parallel editor): the ideal is to discover the carbohydrate that suits you. To do this, he suggests using a blood glucose monitor (available at drugstores) for seven days.

You should eat 50 grams of effective carbs (see table below) at the breakfast just plain coffee or tea (that’s the whole meal!) and, two hours later, prick your finger with the needle that comes with the pharmacy monitor, collect a drop of blood and do the test. Your glucose it should be between 90 and 115 mg/dl – if it is higher, try the same food again on another day, but reduce the portion by half.

If it still goes above 115 mg/dl, that food is not good for you – it will get in the way of weight loss, as well as stealing your energy. The ideal, according to Robb, is to take menu until you reach your desired weight.

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Carbohydrate index of foods

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*Portions equivalent to 50 g of effective carbohydrate.