Low Calorie Diet part 2

Low Calorie Recipes for your daily Low Calorie Diet

Consumption of carbohydrate that enters the body will be digested to produce glucose. If the food we eat is digested more quickly and release glucose rapidly in the blood, it's included food with high GI (Glycemic Index), otherwise the food is digested more slowly and release glucose gradually in the blood is called Low GI. Low GI foods is better to be a daily diet. Because low-GI foods good to avoid body fatness is also very good for diabetics.

The content of GI in foods

Low Calorie Diet part 1

Low Calorie Recipes for your daily Low Calorie Diet

To grow, activity and metabolism, the body requires energy from our food intake each day. The best source of food for the body's energy supply is carbohydrates. In addition, protein and fat contained in food can also be converted into energy by the digestive system. The energy contained in food is measured in units of kilojoules or also called Calorie, but the internationally used term kilojoules.

If we are more familiar with the previous Calorie unit,

1 Calorie = 4.184 kilojoules / kJ = 4,184 joules.

Which is often upside down is our understanding of the gram calorie / calorie. Gram calorie or calorie, not the same as Calorie, which is used in food is a big Calorie is not a small calorie is often used to measure heat energy.

Where 1 Calorie = 1 kilocalorie = 1,000 calories.

Once again used to measure energy in food is the first of Calorie.