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‘I wish more American companies would adopt your ‘G’ symbol’ – Abby ‘When I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, I began researching everything I could get my hands on, and luckily I came across your website. Living in the US, my doctor sent me to diabetes education classes, but I was appalled to discover …
Move it and Lose it!
Glenn answers those FAQs about exercise: My top bloke absolutely refuses to set foot in a gym. What can I encourage him to do? What activities do men tend to keep to? Glen Cardwell Running. Most blokes like to don the joggers, the holiday T-shirt (Hawaii, Bahamas, Bali) and the torn shorts and crank out …
Books, DVDs, Websites: What’s New?
THE NEW GLUCOSE REVOLUTION FOR DIABETES The Definitive Guide to Managing Diabetes and Prediabetes Using The Glycemic Index By Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, Dr. Stephen Colagiuri, Alan W. Barclay Published by Marlowe & Company This book is a landmark diet and lifestyle guide for everyone either living with diabetes or at risk for it. …
Feedback—Your FAQs Answered
I have been hunting for the GI of blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, honeydew melon, tangerine, currants, crab apples, lemon, lime, cumquats, nectarine, plum, rhubarb and have had no luck. Apologies, to our regular GI News readers who have seen this question in other guises more than once before – it’s a regular to gifeedback. To deal …
GI Values Update
The latest GI values Kellogg’s Sustain ‘Breakfast is a great opportunity to go for low GI Gold by selecting a low GI breakfast cereal,’ says Prof Jennie Brand-Miller. As there aren’t many low GI packaged breakfast cereals on the supermarket shelves here in Australia, it’s good to see another join the ranks: Kellogg’s Sustain – …
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GI News—June 2007
‘Chestnuts roasting on an open fire …’ Did you know that they were part of the staple diet of Southern Europe, Turkey and Asia for centuries. In fact until potatoes arrived on the scene, they were a major source of carbohydrate. And now we know that they are low GI. Check out Food of the …
Food for Thought
How low should a low GI diet go? Prof Jennie Brand-Miller and Diabetes Australia’s Alan Barclay believe there’s a real need to define the numerical difference between a low GI diet and a low GI food. Because a low GI food is defined as 55 or less, people have made the reasonable assumption that a …
GI News Podcast
GI News Podcast: Strategies for Cooking and Eating Low GI Foods In the fourth of the New Glucose Revolution podcasts, Prof. Jennie Brand-Miller talks about strategies for cooking and eating with the glycemic index. Where do you begin? How to get your engine revving at breakfast time. Play the Podcast above or download here
GI News Briefs
Putting your genes on a diet It’s a commonplace to say you are what you eat, but Petteri Kallio and colleagues writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in May suggest that’s pretty much what’s happening at a molecular level in a study that highlights changes in gene expression in people consuming diets with …
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