GI News—August 2005
In This Issue: Don’t Get Carried Away With Glycemic Load Reducing the Risk of Stroke Is It the GI that Makes the Difference to Weight control? Carrots Barley Chargrilled Vegetables and Beans with Pasta The Low GI Guide to Managing PCOS (UK edition) The Healthy Shopping Tour (Diabetes Australia CD-Rom) Why Is There No GI …
Food for Thought
Don’t Get Carried Away with Glycemic Load ‘Glycemic index’, ‘glycemic load’ and ‘glycemic response’ are not the same write Alan Barclay, Prof Jennie Brand-Miller, and Prof Tom Wolever in Diabetes Care (Volume 28, Number 7, July 2005). ‘The evidence as it stands suggests that for preventing type 2 diabetes, we ought to encourage low GI …
GI News Briefs
Reducing the Risk of Stroke Replacing refined carbohydrates with high fibre, low GI carbs may help reduce the risk of hemorrhagic stroke in women according to researchers including Dr Walter Willett from Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Hemorrhagic stroke (also known as cerebral hemorrhage) occurs when a …
GI Values Update
Carrots and Sticks One of the most repeated criticisms of the GI approach over the years has been the fact that carrots were being excluded from diets simply because of their high GI value. Note to GI critics—carrots were retested and the new values published three years ago (2002) in The New Glucose Revolution and …
Low GI Food of the Month
Barley GI 25 (pearl barley) One of the oldest cultivated cereals, barley is nutritious and high in soluble fibre, which helps to reduce the post-meal rise in blood glucose—it lowers the overall GI of a meal. In fact pearl barley has one of the lowest GI values of any food that we have tested. Pearl …
Low GI Recipe of the Month
Chargrilled Vegetables and Beans with Pasta Serves 4 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes Make this satisfying pasta dish from The New Glucose Revolution Life Plan using your favourite pasta shapes and canned beans for a quick and easy supper. Photo: Jennifer Soo, The New Glucose Revolution Life Plan 2 small Italian eggplants …
New Books and CDs
The Low GI Guide to Managing PCOS Dr Jennie Brand-Miller. Prof Nadir Farid, Kate Marsh Low GI foods play a vital role in addressing insulin resistance, the underlying cause of polycystic ovarian syndrome. PCOS affects up to one in five women in developed countries, yet only half those with the condition are aware of it. …
Feedback—Your FAQs Answered
Why Is There No GI for Blueberries, Blackberries, and Raspberries? Janey Berry, a spokesman for Waitrose reports that the UK’s ‘craze’ for the GI diet has boosted sales of berries, porridge and bananas, as people seem to have reposed their faith in the new diet rather than Atkins. Waitrose UK recorded a 264 per cent …
