Are
you always hungry for great healthy meal recipes? Is it a foremost
thought because you need easy and delicious gluten free meals? If this
is so then you might also have other food sensitivities or allergies.
Some of us need:
- sugar-free (except fruit)
- digestion-friendly (eliminate IBS)
- allergy friendly (wheat, gluten, soy, etc.)
- low glycemic
and delicious meals too!
Food and environmental sensitivities can wreak havoc for digestive systems. Growing awareness of and willingness to do without gluten and high glycemic foods is becoming revolutionary.
Low glycemic foods are highly important for optimum health. They also affect hunger, appetite, and blood sugar levels. The glycemic index of foods is actually a ranking of foods and their result on blood sugar levels. High glycemic foods are cabohydrates that break down quickly during digestion. Low glycemic foods are carbohydrates that break down slowly during digestion; they release glucose into the blood stream slowly.
Two great advantages of using (eating) low G.I. foods are:
- they help burn body fat, not muscle
- they help fill you up, keeping your appetite satisfied longer.
It’s pleasant not to feel hungry, and to release fat. One thing I have noticed in glycemic index informational books is that there is no help for people with food sensitivities such as gluten.
Gluten in wheat, barley, rye and oats is intolerable for celiacs. That seems to rule out quite a bit of foods to enjoy. At first it can seem overwhelming and depressing. Actually, there are several grains that don’t contain gluten and taste delicious. Corn, soy, potato, tapioca, buckwheat, amaranth and sorghum are but a few of the flours that have been made from gluten free foods. These flours make good cookies, cakes, breads and other foods like pasta.
There are also flourless gluten free, low glycemic recipes now available for diabetics, vegans, vegetarians, meat-eaters and celiacs. Making easy and delicious gluten free mels is quite possible.
