Dr David’s Tips for Raising Healthy Kids
Giving kids a leg up in life You’ve heard it before, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But a lot of us skip breakfast. Not a good example for the kids because alarmingly around 40 per cent of them are breakfast skippers too – ‘too tired’, ‘slept in’, ‘in a rush’, ‘not …
Move It & Lose It with Prof Trim
Forget the calculations. Just do it until it works. Here’s a typical question I am asked: ‘Looking at calculations I’ve done on the food I eat and exercise I do, I can’t understand why I’m not losing more weight. What’s going on here?’ Dr Garry Egger aka Prof Trim This is a common problem for …
Your Questions Answered
What’s the relationship between hypoglycemia and diabetes. I have had hypoglycemic symptoms since an early age and now have a positive diagnosis. How can I reduce my risk of getting diabetes? Diabetes dietitian Kaye Foster-Powell says: ‘Hypoglycaemic symptoms are experienced by some people who develop type 2 diabetes, but not by all. To me it …
Your Success Stories
‘This is a whole new way of looking at my world of food.’ – Brittany ‘I am 15, pre-diabetic, and extremely overweight – 5’4″ tall and 270 pounds. I have battled bloating and extreme stomach gas (which can sometimes cause me great embarrassment). My mother, my grandmother and I have tried several diet and exercise …
GI Symbol News with Alan Barclay
In search of lower GI potatoes Let’s face it, most people like potatoes – they can be prepared in so many different ways, are highly nutritious, and taste great (hold the fries)! But the potato’s healthy image has taken a bit of a battering in recent years, due to their generally very high GI values …
The Latest GI Values
Fresh apricots in season There can hardly be a more delicious way to get one of those two serves of fruit a day than downing a couple of fresh apricots in season. Fiona Atkinson at SUGiRS has just finished re-testing apricots in healthy volunteers (the original value of 57 was from Italy with people with …
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GI News—December 2007
In this issue of GI News A cuppa tea quells BGLs Update on cinnamon (cassia) Prof Trim checks out glucosamine How to boost that slow metabolism Eating to beat cancer If cookbooks for family and friends are on your Christmas shopping list, check out our top 10. We’ve picked our favourites from books reviewed in …
Food for Thought
You really can cut your cancer risk Be as lean as you can within the normal range of body weight and be physically active for at least 30 minutes a day to reduce your risk of certain cancers are two key messages to come out of The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the American …
News Briefs
Cuppa tea anyone? ‘There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea’ so the saying goes. Now it looks like that very same cuppa may help quell blood glucose spikes. A one gram cup of black tea may have the potential to stimulate an insulin …
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