COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION
This website and all information, data, documents, pages and images it contains is copyright under the Copyright Act 1968 (Commonwealth of Australia) (as amended) and the copyright laws of all member countries of the Berne Union and the Universal Copyright Convention. Copyright in the website and in material prepared by GI News is owned by …
GI NEWS – JULY 2023
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 …
WHAT TO DRINK?
Some health professionals and health activists like to ignore this simple fact – people love to drink Calories, not just water, and have been doing so since the dawn of Homo sapiens. One of our first experiences outside the womb, our first drink, is (hopefully) human milk, the sweetest of all mammalian milks, with ~7% …
SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGES, ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED BEVERAGES, FRUIT JUICE, AND CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH
Many studies have linked consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) with an increased risk of cardiometabolic disease. However, evidence for an association between cardiometabolic disease and consumption of alternative beverages including “artificially” (intensely) sweetened beverages (ASBs) and fruit juices, is mixed. Recently, Li and colleagues (1) conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 72 prospective cohort …
BEVERAGE CHOICES
What is your go-to beverage? As we all know, water is best for quenching thirst, but sometimes we enjoy other beverages as a treat or when we are celebrating those special occasions. Some beverages, such as milk and fruit juice naturally contain sugars (lactose in milk; fructose, glucose and sucrose in fruit juice), other beverages …
ORANGE JUICE
Orange juice (OJ) is an iconic healthy breakfast drink. Every TV show I ever watched with scenes over a breakfast table featured a glass of OJ. Juice was natural and wholesome, much like the TV families depicted. Then came the juice bar phenomenon in which you could order bespoke blends of fruit and vegetable juices, …
THE GOOD CARBS KITCHEN
POMEGRANATE AND ROSEWATER SPRITZ 0:05 Prep • 6 Servings • Drink • Special Occasion INGREDIENTS 500mL pomegranate juice 3-4 drops rosewater, to taste 2 cups ice cubes ⅓ cup fresh mint 1L sparkling mineral water METHOD For details, please visit the Healthy Food Guide NUTRITION Per serve 240kJ/57 Calories; 1g protein; 0g …
COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION
This website and all information, data, documents, pages and images it contains is copyright under the Copyright Act 1968 (Commonwealth of Australia) (as amended) and the copyright laws of all member countries of the Berne Union and the Universal Copyright Convention. Copyright in the website and in material prepared by GI News is owned by …
GI NEWS – MAY 2023
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 …
GI, SATURATED FAT AND YOUR LIVER
Do you know if you have a fatty liver? If that’s a yes, what can be done to treat it? Thirty years ago, a vivacious redhead by the name of Dr Sandra Cabot wrote a wildly popular book called The Liver Cleansing Diet. I, like many others thought it was all a bit crazy. Mind …
