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NOVEMBER 2025 GI NEWS
GI News is published online by the University of Sydney, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and the Charles Perkins Centre, and delivered to the mailboxes of our 100,000+ subscribers. Our goal is to help people choose the high-quality carbs that are digested at a rate that our bodies can comfortably accommodate and to share…
HOW DO WE SOLVE THE SOFT DRINK PROBLEM?
I’ve just had the privilege of attending a meeting of the International Carbohydrate Quality Consortium in Kalamata Greece (lucky me!). This small group of experts is chaired by Walter Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor David Jenkins of the University of Toronto, who was one of…
NATIONAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SURVEY FINDINGS ON CARBS
Lower-carb diets have become increasingly popular in recent years in many parts of the world, and this is reflected in the recently released findings of the Australian National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (NNPAS) 2023. The NNPAS 2023 is an important national survey that collects information about the nutrition and physical activity of people living…
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DO AUSTRALIANS CONSUME A HIGH CARBOHYDRATE DIET? WHAT ARE THE LONG-TERM TRENDS?
Australian governments infrequently survey population food and nutrient intakes, on an irregular basis, but some data are better than none at all! Surveys have been conducted previously in 1995 and 2011-12, with the most recent in 2023-24, and these latest results were published in September 2025. Given the popularity and rationale for low-carbohydrate diets around…
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CARBOHYDRATE CONSUMPTION, OVERWEIGHT, OBESITY AND TYPE 2 DIABETES RATES IN AUSTRALIA
In this month’s PERSPECTIVES, we discuss decreasing available carbohydrate consumption in Australia over the past 3 decades, including from sugars. Around the globe, many people believe that excess and increasing consumption of carbohydrate, and in particular free or added sugars, is driving increasing rates of overweight, obesity and type 2 diabetes. As will be demonstrated,…
FOODS WITH HEALTHY SUGARS AND A LOW GI AND GL
As discussed in this month’s editions of GI News, Australians are consuming less available carbohydrate in their diets, and particularly less foods with free sugars. Probably due to over-generalisation and lack of knowledge, some people have also reduced their consumption of foods naturally high in sugars like fruits, vegetables and certain dairy foods, increasing the…
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BETTER-FOR-YOU DRINKS: BE A SMOOTHIE OPERATOR
Everybody knows water is the best drink, ideally from the tap (if drinkable) rather than in plastic bottles shipped half-way around the world, or even trucked across the country. But let’s face it, we do enjoy non-water drinks and have perhaps leaned a little too much on heavily marketed sugar-sweetened drinks, as well as alcoholic…
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THE GOOD CARBS KITCHEN
PUMPKIN SOUP 0:10 Prep • 00:20 cook • 4 Servings • Main • Everyday INGREDIENTS 1 kg pumpkin, peeled and chopped 2–3 teaspoons reduced-salt vegetable stock powder 3 cups boiling water 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 medium brown onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, crushed ½ teaspoon ground cumin ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 cup skim…