GLOW with Healthy Weight Maintenance
The Sugar Craving and Energy Crash Cycle
When you consume refined sugars and grains, they are quickly absorbed into your blood stream and this causes a spike in blood sugar levels. To bring your sugar levels down, your body releases the hormone insulin. When you have high levels of insulin in your blood, sugar then rushes into your cells – leaving you with low blood sugar levels. You may be familiar with this feeling – you know, the crash at 3:00pm that leaves you reaching for the coffee and chocolate bars.
The hitch? Our brains run on glucose, and in an effort to maintain a steady stream of sugar to feed the brain, your body will crave refined sweets to raise your blood sugar again – and then the spike-crash-spike cycle endlessly continues.
How Sugar Cravings Lead to Weight Gain
When you have high levels of insulin in your blood re, you are more susceptible to weight gain, diabetes, and a lowered immune system.
Why?
Because when your body has more sugar than it knows what to do with, it converts the sugar into fat. And the sugar highs and lows create an immense amount of stress on your body. When stress hormones are released, energy is diverted from digestion so you can’t fully assimilate food or burn calories effectively.
Quality is Important: Whole Grains and Healthy Sweeteners
Whole grains such as buckwheat, brown rice and quinoa are complex carbohydrates that still have fibre, vitamins and minerals, as opposed to refined grains (such as white flour) which are devoid of nutrients.
A Delicious Alternative to Get the GLOW
GLOWnola is the only product available on the market that uses low glycemic and nutrient-rich sweeteners like green leaf stevia, yacon syrup and coconut sugar. GLOWnola also uses organic gluten-free whole grain buckwheat. While whole grains are always a healthier choice than sweeteners, consumption of healthy sweeteners in moderation can nourish our bodies, satisfy our sweet cravings and provide us with energy.
When you replace your cravings for sugar with lower-glycemic, natural and nutrient dense sweeteners, the sugars are more slowly released into your blood stream to prevent the craving and energy crash cycle. As a result, you are satiated for longer periods of time, you are more able to maintain a healthy weight without dieting and you will have the energy you need to bring your GLOW into the world.
Click here to discover more of the benefits of nutrient dense sweeteners used in the GLOW Collection.
Please note that consuming low-glycemic sweeteners is only part of the solution. In order for your body to be able to regulate blood sugar levles, it is important to address the root cause of consuming too many refined and processed foods and switch to a delicious whole foods lifestyle. To assist you on your path to wellness, consider working with a holistic nutritionist.
Find Julie Beyer's For the Love of Food on Facebook and Twitter for regular tips on healthy eating, nutrition, recipes and more.
When you consume refined sugars and grains, they are quickly absorbed into your blood stream and this causes a spike in blood sugar levels. To bring your sugar levels down, your body releases the hormone insulin. When you have high levels of insulin in your blood, sugar then rushes into your cells – leaving you with low blood sugar levels. You may be familiar with this feeling – you know, the crash at 3:00pm that leaves you reaching for the coffee and chocolate bars.
The hitch? Our brains run on glucose, and in an effort to maintain a steady stream of sugar to feed the brain, your body will crave refined sweets to raise your blood sugar again – and then the spike-crash-spike cycle endlessly continues.
How Sugar Cravings Lead to Weight Gain
When you have high levels of insulin in your blood re, you are more susceptible to weight gain, diabetes, and a lowered immune system.
Why?
Because when your body has more sugar than it knows what to do with, it converts the sugar into fat. And the sugar highs and lows create an immense amount of stress on your body. When stress hormones are released, energy is diverted from digestion so you can’t fully assimilate food or burn calories effectively.
Quality is Important: Whole Grains and Healthy Sweeteners
Whole grains such as buckwheat, brown rice and quinoa are complex carbohydrates that still have fibre, vitamins and minerals, as opposed to refined grains (such as white flour) which are devoid of nutrients.
A Delicious Alternative to Get the GLOW
GLOWnola is the only product available on the market that uses low glycemic and nutrient-rich sweeteners like green leaf stevia, yacon syrup and coconut sugar. GLOWnola also uses organic gluten-free whole grain buckwheat. While whole grains are always a healthier choice than sweeteners, consumption of healthy sweeteners in moderation can nourish our bodies, satisfy our sweet cravings and provide us with energy.
When you replace your cravings for sugar with lower-glycemic, natural and nutrient dense sweeteners, the sugars are more slowly released into your blood stream to prevent the craving and energy crash cycle. As a result, you are satiated for longer periods of time, you are more able to maintain a healthy weight without dieting and you will have the energy you need to bring your GLOW into the world.
Click here to discover more of the benefits of nutrient dense sweeteners used in the GLOW Collection.
Please note that consuming low-glycemic sweeteners is only part of the solution. In order for your body to be able to regulate blood sugar levles, it is important to address the root cause of consuming too many refined and processed foods and switch to a delicious whole foods lifestyle. To assist you on your path to wellness, consider working with a holistic nutritionist.
Find Julie Beyer's For the Love of Food on Facebook and Twitter for regular tips on healthy eating, nutrition, recipes and more.
