How quickly a food breaks down carbohydrate in it into glucose is called its glycemic index (GI). Foods with high GI tend to deposit fat in your body. Examples of high GI food are white bread, table sugar, white polished rice, etc. Low GI foods are: Raw green peas, unpolished rice, raw corn, cucumbers, tomatoes etc.
Take It Outside. In springtime, you can take your Christmas cactus outside in its pot as long as day and nighttime temperatures stay above 50 degrees Fahrenheit. But unlike desert cactuses, the Christmas cactus wonât tolerate the intense full summer sun. Full direct sun will give the plant severe sunburn.he Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera bridgesii) is a native of Brazil but is grown widely as a winter-flowering houseplant. In nature, it grows as an epiphyte in shady tropical rain forests.
Healthy Christmas cactus foliage is bright, glossy green. The Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera bridgesii) earned its common name with the timing of its bloom, which occurs at Christmas if the plant has been given 8 weeks of long nights -- 13 hours or more of dark - for eight weeks preceding Christmas.