Understand Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load: 5 Key Principles for Better Blood Sugar Control

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Managing blood sugar levels is crucial for overall health, especially for those with diabetes or prediabetes. Two important concepts to understand to manage health and wellbeing when making food choices especially if you want to manage diabetes are the Glycemic Index (GI) and Glycemic Load (GL). Here are five principles to help you make better food choices based on these concepts: 1. Prioritize Low Glycemic Index Foods The Glycemic Index (GI) measures how quickly a food raises blood sugar levels. Foods with a low GI cause a slower, more gradual rise in blood sugar, which is beneficial for maintaining stable energy levels and avoiding spikes. Examples of low GI foods include non-starchy vegetables, beans, and certain fruits like apples, pears, pomegranate and berries. 2. Consider Glycemic Load for a Comprehensive View Glycemic Load (GL) takes into account both the quality (GI) and quantity of carbohydrates in a food. This provides a more comprehensive understanding of a food’s impact on...

10 tips to healthy shaving

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Shaving the bear properly is very essential for healthy skin and to avoid unnecessary cuts.  Here are the 10 tips to healthy shaving that are most important to be taken into consideration while shaving so as to make it a pleasant experience :

1). Wash your face with warm water for 2-3 minutes as it will help soften the bear and helps avoids irritation or razor burns.

2). Use adequate good quality shaving cream and make good lather hence gives good lubrication and reduces friction thereby making shaving smoother.

3). Always use a good quality, Sharp and Clean Razor. A dull razor is one of the contributing factors to razor burn and shaving rash.

4). Rinse razor in hot water after every stroke.

5). During shaving use light, gentle and short strokes.

6). Pull your skin tight to help prevent cuts.

7). Shave with the grain i.e in the direction on hair growth because doing otherwise poses high risk of cutting off a hair below skin level, causing an ingrown hair (razor bumps) – the whisker grows into the surrounding tissue instead of out of the pore, resulting in inflammation and possible infection.

8). Don’t run fast, be slow careful of the shaving process as the factor of inattention could lead into unnecessary cuts.

9). After completing shave rinse face with cold water to help seal skin pores to feel skin soft and smooth.

10). Don’t forget to use standard good quality moisturizing after shave lotion for healthy skin.

References and Further reading:

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudofolliculitis_barbae
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftershave
  3. http://www.dermnetnz.org/bacterial/