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Want to Diet the Easy and Effective Way? Try GG Bran Crispbread to Streamline Your Diet Success!
By Joanne Eglash
Just in time for those 2009 diet resolutions, GG Bran Crispbread has an all-new formula for fiber-rich diet success!
After the past decade of “magic” solutions for weight loss, most of us have learned the reality: it takes a sensible diet for true, long-term weight management. And one of the keys to succeeding on that diet is fiber. Fiber offers a way to feel full while eating fewer calories. So how do you incorporate more fiber into your diet? The answer: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and…GG bran crispbread!
Thanks to a new recipe, GG contains even fewer calories, while offering the same crunchy, satisfying taste experience. An ideal high fiber snack to add to your list of slimming foods, these weight control crackers can be used in a variety of tasty ways:
• Try GG low-carb breads with your breakfast. For example, if you love scrambled eggs and are following a low-carb diet, try placing thin slices of low-fat Monterey Jack cheese on two or three GG bran crackers. Slip them into the microwave until the cheese melts, then serve with your eggs for a fabulously filling and delicious meal.
• Looking for tasty low sugar foods or low starch foods, or perhaps you’ve heard the buzz about the benefits of low glycemic foods? These terms refer to carbs that release glucose gradually into your blood stream.
The result: you don’t experience that surge of energy that you do when you eat a candy bar or a cupcake. The problem with that energy surge is that it’s typically followed by an energy sag, so that you feel hungry, eat more high sugar, high starch foods, and gain weight. GG bran crispbread is the ideal low glycemic food. Take your typical PB&J sandwich. It’s probably made with white bread, which means it contains sugar and white flour, with little or no fiber. Your peanut butter probably contains sugar or corn syrup, as does the jelly or jam. The low-glycemic, low-calorie, high fiber substitute: two slices of GG high fiber bread spread with sugar-free peanut butter and sugar-free preserves. It’s filling, high in fiber, low in calories, and high in great flavor!
• It’s snack time, and you’re hungry. Try two GG bran crispbread and a cup of sugar-free hot chocolate. You’ll get your chocolate “fix,” plus feel full from your high fiber GG bread. Tip: Try sprinkling the GG crispbread with a dash of cinnamon and a packet of artificial sweetener. Eating those spicy, sweetened crispbread with your cocoa will make you fall in love with that low-calorie, low-carb lifestyle!
Our Latest Product - GG Bran Fiber Sprinkles
You asked, we delivered!
We are proud to announce our newest product, GG Bran Crispbread Sprinkles, a crushed version of our GG Scandinavian Bran Crispbread crackers.
It’s everything you love about GG, made in a convenient flake form. We understand your busy lifestyle, and want to give you the convenience of adding the highest fiber product on the market to your everyday diet. Supplementing your meals has never been easier! Add GG Sprinkles to yogurt, breakfast cereal, smoothies and your favorite recipes, instantly.
GG Sprinkle’s packaging was designed for easy access, in a 10.6 ounce, wide-mouthed tub. It only takes seconds to precisely measure your specific necessary daily intake of fiber. Scoop out one serving of three tablespoons (10 ounces) to add to your favorite low calorie, low carb and nutritional meals, such as our turkey meatloaf or our crunchy NOT fried chicken.
We understand the challenges of eating healthy with the busy and often stressful lives we lead. GG Sprinkles makes it easy to garner the benefits of fiber with every meal without a great deal of effort.
For our diabetic customers, we sympathize with the difficulties of finding fiber-rich foods to add to your diet. GG Sprinkles makes it possible for you to conveniently shake the desired amount of fiber into your low sugar meals without hassle.
Please visit our “Recipes” page, for healthy and simple recipes that make it easy to add high fiber, low calorie and low carb benefits to your daily routine.
Additionally, we would love to hear from you! Please join and post here on our blog, and tell us how you enjoy GG Bran Crispbread and GG Fiber Sprinkles.
Our other faithful customers are always thrilled to discover new ways to enjoy GG, so please share with us your thoughts, opinions and experiences of enjoying GG Scandinavian Bran Crispbread and GG Scandinavian Bran Crispbread Sprinkles.
Here’s to a happy, healthy you!
Effective Weight Management - Part 2
Glycemic Matrix Guide to Low GI and GL Eating
by Richard Price
Chapter 1: Effective Weight Management (Part 2)
GLYCEMIC DENSITY
Is there a way of combining energy density and glycemic impact? I developed an approach to this synthesis which I called Glycemic Density (GD). I was thinking about the principle of energy density, when I wondered if there would be any value to a “carbohydrate calorie density” which would measure carbohydrate calories per gram of food. This would give a value that ranged from zero to four, because of the four calories that are found in a gram of carbohydrate. Then a thought flashed through my mind. Why not apply the glycemic index to this carbohydrate measurement? This would measure the glycemic impact in a gram of food. Thus was the concept of glycemic density born.
My previous book Glycemic Density - Continuing the Glucose Revolution used carbohydrate calories as a basis of calculation. I did this because I came at it from the direction of energy density. I took the carbohydrate calories per gram and multiplied it by the glycemic index (expressed as a decimal) to come up with the result. This also yielded a value which ranged from zero to four. A value of four would be pure glucose. Now, instead of carbohydrate calories, I have decided to use carbohydrate grams as a basis of calculation. This will yield a result that is one fourth of the prior value. The value range is now zero to one. Pure glucose would have a value of one.
Glycemic Density =
(Net-Carbohydrate-Grams * Glycemic-Index / 100) / Total-Grams-in-Serving
The reason for this change is that the first part of the formula is also the formula for glycemic load. To calculate the glycemic density, all that is needed is to divide the total glycemic load in the serving by the total grams. Since this is already listed in many instances, it will make our calculations much simpler. The glycemic density now becomes equal to the glycemic load in a gram of food.
INTRODUCING THE GLYCEMIC MATRIX
This book introduces a further refinement of the glycemic index and glycemic density principles. The glycemic density and glycemic index represent the two ways that hunger can be satisfied. Glycemic density deals with the weight volume of food contained in a serving, while the glycemic index deals with how rapidly the foods are digested and metabolized into blood sugar. So I came up with the scheme represented below which I call the Glycemic Matrix.
Glycemic Matrix
The foods in the upper left corner are those that would have the lowest impact on blood sugar levels along with the most bulk satisfaction. They will satisfy hunger the most, both in the short term and in the long term. The foods in the lower right corner are those that would have the highest impact on blood sugar levels along with the least bulk satisfaction. They will satisfy short term and long term hunger the least.
For those of you who read my prior book, here is how the old and new glycemic density values compare. Remember that the new method is always one forth the value of the old method. They can easily be converted into one another.
Methods of Calculating Glycemic Density
LOOKING AHEAD
Chapter two lists the Glycemic Matrix of various food groups including non-starchy vegetables, fruits, bread, cereal, other grains and starchy vegetables, legumes, soups, dairy, sugars, fats and indulgences.
Effective Weight Management - Part 1
Glycemic Matrix Guide to Low GI and GL Eating
by Richard Price
Chapter 1: Effective Weight Management (Part 1)
TWO POWERFUL DIETARY PRINCIPLES
Two of the most powerful principles in effective weight management are to eat foods with a lower energy density and to eat foods with a lower glycemic impact.
(1) ENERGY DENSITY
There are two ways to reduce calories. One is to eat less food. This way seldom works. Another way is to eat food with a lower energy or calorie density per serving. If we can increase the weight of food while maintaining the same level of calories, we can feel full and satisfied even during a period of weight loss. Fat has nine calories per gram while protein and carbohydrates have four calories per gram. The less fat in our diet, the lower the energy density. Fiber has two calories or less per gram. Water has no caloric value. Therefore, the more fiber and water in our food choices, the lower the energy density.
Dr. Barbara Rolls of Pennsylvania State University developed a way to measure energy density. This is described in her books The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan and The Volumetrics Eating Plan. The calculation is performed by dividing the calories in a serving by the weight in grams. A number ranging from zero to nine is produced. The maximum energy density is nine because, as mentioned, pure fat has nine calories per gram. All other foods will have a lesser value. For example, raisins have an energy density of three. This means that there are three calories per gram in a serving of raisins. Strawberries, on the other hand, only have an energy density of .20. This means that there is only one fifth calorie for each gram of strawberries.
Looking at this a different way, fifteen grams of strawberries has the same calories as one gram of raisins. Obviously, the strawberries would satisfy our hunger with far fewer calories. Eating foods with lower energy densities can satisfy our hunger without weight gain.
(2) GLYCEMIC IMPACT
Glycemic impact refers to the twin principles of the glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL). The glycemic index was first conceived of by Dr. David Jenkins and Dr. Thomas Wolever of the University of Toronto. It was expanded by Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller and her associates at the University of Sydney. The best description is the book The New Glucose Revolution - The Authoritative Guide to the Glycemic Index. The glycemic index measures how rapidly carbohydrate foods are digested, converted to glucose, and cause blood sugars to rise. Pure glucose is given the maximum value of one hundred. All other foods are compared against glucose.
The hormone insulin, which is produced by the pancreas, is necessary to move blood sugar into our muscle cells where it can be used for energy. It is the nature of insulin to move the blood sugar into these cells as rapidly as possible. When our blood sugar drops back down to its baseline level, it is a signal that it is time to eat again. On the other hand, carbohydrate foods that are digested slowly cause a slower rise in blood sugar and its accompanying insulin response. This leaves us feeling more satisfied over a longer period of time.
The glycemic load was developed by researchers at Harvard University. It applies the glycemic index to specific servings sizes. It is a measurement of how many of the carbohydrate grams in the serving are converted to blood sugar. High glycemic index foods do not need to be avoided altogether. Many contain valuable nutrients. The glycemic load gives us a way of monitoring the glycemic response from these higher glycemic index foods.
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GG Bran Nutritional Information: What has Changed and Why
As you may or may not know, GG Bran Scandanavian Crispbread has made some changes to our packaging and our Nutritional Information. We have had many of our customers call or write with questions for these changes and thought it would be beneficial to post this response:
For all current and potential GG Bran Crispbread Customers,
Please be aware of some of our changes and the reasons for changes in our products nutritional information. Our product continues to be all-natural, and still has all of the benefits that an extraordinarily high fiber product can offer.
Dietary Fiber
GG continues to have the highest percentage of dietary fiber and the lowest net carbs of any cracker on the market. The crackers are now simply larger, with a smaller amount of crackers in each package.
In order to maintain the dietary fiber at 50%, we have maximized the percentage of unprocessed bran to 85+%.
An additional benefit of the slightly larger cracker is that breakage is reduced, which will really come in handy if you like to put toppings on the cracker and dip it into hummus, yogurt or other spreads for a quick and healthy snack.
The weight of the package will remain 100 grams; however, it will contain 10 crackers weighing 10 grams each instead of the former 12 crackers weighing 9 grams.
Nutrional Information
This change in weight and the increased amount of dietary fiber has resulted in changes in nutritional value for each cracker:
• Dietary fiber increases from 3g to 5g. Each cracker contains 50% dietary fiber
• Total carbs increases from 3g to 7g (2g net carbs + 5g dietary fiber)
• Net carbs increases from 0g to 2g
• Calories decrease from 16 to 12
What caused these changes?
Our all natural fiber crackers are made in Norway and imported to the United States. The Norwegian nutritional analysis that we have been using designates carbs and dietary fiber as separate numbers. Therefore, subtracting grams of dietary fiber from the reported carbohydrate grams resulted in Zero net carbs.
USRDA (United States Recommended Daily Allowances) convention includes dietary fiber in the definition of Total Carbohydrates. When dietary fiber is subtracted from total carbs, the result is 2g of net carbs.
Results
These changes may have changed your feelings about our product or may have you wondering if GG Scandanavian Bran Crispbread is right for your healthy lifestyle.
If you are a current customer of GG Bran Crispbread and have seen results from taking this product, then you will consider to see the same results. The larger crackers will allow you to get the same fiber content in fewer crackers, and it still has the same great bran taste.
If you are wondering if GG Bran Crackers are the right addition for your low carb diet, then realize that these crackers do have a small amount of carbohydrates, but also contain a whopping 5 grams of Dietary Fiber. This product is a great addition to any diet including the F-Factor high fiber diet, low carb diets and for constipation relief.
Thank you for using and considering to use our product. We hope that we can continue to make a great high fiber and low carb addition to your healthy living lifestyle.
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