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Chapter 5 Glycemic Index

The clear goal now is to find a way to allow employees to maintain blood sugar levels at a reasonable level for a long time, neither too high nor too low.

After clarifying the mechanism of blood sugar increase and decrease, it is not impossible. In addition to being able to observe the blood sugar value of each person at any time, Liang Shicheng has a deeper understanding of this principle.

An ordinary employee spends his day like this. First of all, he gets up early in the morning hungry and his blood sugar level drops to the bottom. After a rich breakfast, the digestive system puts the sugars broken down from the food in the stomach into the blood. The blood sugar level quickly exceeded 100%, soaring beyond the safe range.

At this time, the blood sugar transport system began to work frantically, desperately converting blood sugar into fat, but because the digestive system is full of ammunition, it is still continuously replenishing blood sugar in the blood. During the initial period of time, the blood sugar level can continue to be maintained to a high level. s level.

Until two hours later, the breakfast was almost digested, the digestive system gradually ran out of food, slowed down and stopped sending blood sugar to the blood, and the whole body still needs to consume energy, especially the brain, the blood sugar content is rapidly reduced and maintained at After a very low level, the blood glucose transport system begins to break down the previously stored fat and deliver it to the blood.

This low blood sugar level will continue until noon before lunch, and then start a similar cycle. After a nap, spend the afternoon at a lower blood sugar level.

All in all, in this process, only a short period of time after eating, the blood sugar level is at a relatively high level, and the rest of the working time is spent at a lower blood sugar level.

At the same time, the faster the digestion of sweets, the faster the increase in blood sugar levels at first, but the shorter the time it can be maintained.

The human digestive system can be roughly divided into the stomach and the small intestine. The stomach is responsible for digestion, breaking down food into small molecules, and the small intestine is responsible for absorption.

Although the stomach needs rest and cannot work all the time, the small intestine can rest 24 hours a day.

After knowing this rule, it is easy to understand that if you want to maintain a high and stable blood sugar level for a day, you should try to eat slower absorption foods for three meals a day.

There is a word here called glycemic index, which can be used to measure the speed of food digestion.

Among them, cellulose-rich vegetables have a low glycemic index, followed by whole grains.

The glycemic index of meat is moderate.

Rice and flour are foods with a high glycemic index, which are at the same level as candy and cola.

Liang Shicheng first started the experiment with himself. At noon on this day, he came to a cafeteria to select the cheapest vegetarian dishes and pasta made from miscellaneous grains. After lunch, he returned to the company and began to observe the decline in his blood sugar level.

Sure enough, it rose very slowly and could not break through 80%, but it also fell very slowly, and it was still above 70% after three hours.

At this time, most of the other employees' blood glucose levels are much lower than this value.

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Before leaving get off work, Liang Shicheng stood in the most conspicuous position on this floor and announced good news to the employees.

"You won't have to bring your own lunch to the company tomorrow. In order to reduce your burden, I will treat you to lunch in the next few days."

Then there was a lot of discussion in the audience, and cast doubtful eyes.

In terms of disappointment, Liang Shicheng will not disappoint this time.

At noon the next day, Liang Shicheng called in two helpers in advance, came to the cafeteria, and discussed with the boss about buying lunch in bulk. After some bargaining, the transaction was finally sold at a price of 120 yuan. The lunch box is packed and a plastic basket is provided. When leaving, the boss never forgets to make a complaint.

"The workers on this construction site don't have any objection to do it like this."

"My employees, don't like meat."

After rushing back to the company and distributing the lunch, Liang Shicheng went back to his office and wondered how to improve the breakfast of this group of people and raise their blood sugar levels in the morning.

However, breakfast cannot be purchased collectively like today. The place where Liang Shicheng is calling breakfast too early. The word "guo" has no ulterior meaning. Just like the New Year, locals value breakfast for a day.

There are many shops in this city that have been busy at night, but only open in the morning. They provide delicious and a wide variety of breakfast options.

For many people here, premature is a kind of enjoyment, and even the most important thing of the day. It is normal to drive a BMW for a few kilometers to a small and crowded breakfast shop. Lunch and Dinner can be handled, but breakfast is not sloppy.

What's more, most of the employees in the company settled for breakfast on the way to the company. It is really difficult to think about breakfast.

But the breakfast in this place is mostly all kinds of high-calorie pasta, glutinous rice, and sometimes directly sprinkled with sugar.

This type of breakfast is inseparable from the local dock industry. The workers on the dock have to engage in high-intensity manual labor early in the morning, loading and unloading goods, and they can take a day off in less than two hours after working at 10 o'clock. Of course there is no problem.

But as programmers who have to do mental work from morning to night, they ate breakfast at 6 o'clock in the morning. This easily digestible food with a high glycemic index really cannot support the entire morning.

Sugars are non-toxic, and sugar-rich sweets are also the same, but because they are too easy to absorb, the blood sugar content will instantly reach a dangerous value, which not only causes the pancreatic islet cells to work heavily, thereby inducing diabetes, but also leading to the accumulation of fat , So sweets are classified as unhealthy junk food, and so is Coke.

After a moment of sadness, Liang Shicheng opened a can of Coke and drank again, watching his rapidly soaring blood sugar level quickly break through the safety line, and after a while, it dropped back again.

This time he changed to only a small sip, and his blood sugar level finally stayed at around 90% and lasted less than 20 minutes.

Suddenly an idea appeared in his mind, eat less and more meals, no junk food, only junk eating.

If you drink Coke in small sips like this at regular intervals, you will not let your blood sugar level exceed the safety line, and you can maintain your blood sugar level at an appropriate value for a long time.

Snacks like candy also have to eat less each time, not only is there no problem, but also helps health.

After simply designing a plan, Liang Shicheng immediately announced a policy to the employees.

"In order to improve your work efficiency, I announce good news.

After working hours, there will be an additional tea time for everyone to eat snacks, drink drinks, replenish physical strength and rest.

And there is tea time in the morning!

In addition, I will provide you with a variety of drinks..."

After all, there are no surprises on the faces of the exhausted employees, but they look at Liang Shicheng with puzzled expressions.

6 pm is already the time for the company to leave work. Those who are usually more leisurely, pack up their things early and prepare to leave the company.

However, a few employees failed to complete today's tasks and planned to consciously stay in the company to work overtime. They approached Liang Shicheng and asked if they could provide dinner in the evening.

For this request, Liang Shicheng was delighted, and then quickly went downstairs and ran to the cafeteria.