IRS – Avoid High Glycemic Foods and Avoid Big Penalties

Eating is necessary and good for you.  Don’t think about not eating enough! Even if you are morbidly obese, you have to eat enough. What you don’t want to do is avoid following correct principles.

When I pay my taxes, my accountant suggests I pay on time to avoid penalties and interest. There are penalties to eating too much total food or to not eating the correct ratios of food. What are those penalties you ask? First will be excess fat. Then there is high triglycerides, high blood sugar and high blood pressure. All three of those are risks for heart disease which is the number one premature cause of death in most western countries including the USA.

Begin to assess your ratios of nutrients. There are carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. The only one of these three that has no deficiency disease associated with it is carbohydrates. I suggest you keep foods with a high glycemic load as a tiny part of your diet.

Glycemic Load is a measure of how fast a particular food becomes glucose and how much is in a portion.  PORTION is the all important word here. For instance, I see Cheerios as depicted as a “healthy food”.  In terms of Glycemic Load a portion is 30grams or about an ounce.  The glycemic load of that portion is 15  but 10 or less is low. If you want to improve your health by lowering your insulin response, keep you portions in control and your glycemic load low.

Best way to do that is to avoid foods that contain a sweetener or taste sweet. Exceptions would be melons and berries in correct portions. Back to Cheerios, ~75% of the calories come from highly processed carbohydrates. That is why the glycemic load is moderate.  Cut your total glycemic load and you reduce the IRS penalty. No not the tax agency but the attitude “I responsibly solve”. In this case it is responsibly eating and keeping your glycemic load low almost every day.

Why not everyday? You have to live and living is about celebration. You are likely to have higher glycemic load foods during a celebration. Just pick the celebrations. Keep them infrequent and brief. You may need to be very strict at first and then ease up on yourself. The idea is to develop good habits so you don’t receive a health penalty.  Those penalties do not show up the first time, but habits have a way of repeating themselves and when someting is a habit you will do it without thinking about it. Work on one habit at a time. Cut down eating high glycemic load foods.

I will be discussing this on this blog and in my weekly calls. If you don’t listen in live, catch the replay. Sign up for PEP by Bruce and receive an invitation to hear more on this topic as well as ask me any health questions. You can leave me comments below. I suggest you take some action to interact with me so we can work together. It is always more fun that way and I will never nag you. I promise.

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