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GI Symbol News with Alan Barclay
LoGicane™: your questions answered Alan Barclay The launch of the low GI sweetener LoGicane™ in Australia in March sparked immense interest from around the globe. A growing disenchantment with non-nutritive tabletop sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose, and the hypothesis that high fructose corn syrups are fuelling the obesity epidemic in the USA, are a couple …
New GI Values with Fiona Atkinson
Lychees Fresh lychees (B3 variety, Australian grown) GI 57 Serve size 8 lychees (about 100 g or 3 1/2 oz); Available carbs per serve 16 g; GL = 9 Nektar Sweet Nektar Sweet™ GI 34 Serve size (1 teaspoon) 4 g; Available carbs per serve 4 g; GL = 1.4 This nutritive sweetener is a …
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GI News—April 2009
Sweeten your life with low GI sugar (GI 50) Can cinnamon reduce the blood glucose rise after eating? Lupin – dream ingredient or allergy nightmare? Catherine Saxelby investigates Mythbuster Nicole Senior looks at vegetarian diet health claims Prof Trim checks out how much protein you actually need Want to feel fuller on fewer calories, cut …
Food for Thought
Can cinnamon reduce the blood glucose rise after eating? In recent years, lab research has suggested that CASSIA cinnamon, which contains around 5% of coumarin, may make body cells more sensitive to insulin. Small studies in healthy people and people with diabetes have also shown that this type of cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia to give it …
News Briefs
Is it finally the end of fad diet wars? It’s not the type of diet that makes a difference it’s cutting back on the calories that counts. This is the principal finding of a study in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that compared four heart-healthy, weight-loss diets. Consisting of similar foods, the diets …
Foodwatch with Catherine Saxelby
Lupin – dream ingredient or allergy nightmare? Catherine Saxelby I have to say right up front, lupin looks promising but the jury is still out. Here’s the story so far. Research from Western Australia published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that a bread with 40% added lupin kernel flour lowered both systolic …
Low GI Recipes of the Month
American dietitian, Johanna Burani invites GI News readers to try recipes from her Italian kitchen (photographed by Sergio Burani). Johanna Burani Vanda’s baked frittata Vanda is my good friend and a fabulous cook. She lives in Friuli, northern Italy, in a small town very close to mine. She espouses to the freshest ingredients in her …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Vegetarian diets are healthier Nicole Senior Fact: Vegetarian diets can lack essential nutrients My latest book, Heart food (with Veronica Cuskelly) has a picture of mouth-watering steak on the front cover. A couple of people expressed surprise at this choice, and couldn’t believe meat was healthy. Of course a balanced diet including lean meat …
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