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Going with the WHOLE grain Grains are the seeds of cereal plants and include amaranth, barley, buckwheat, bulgur, maize (corn), millet, oats, quinoa, rice, rye, spelt and wheat. These staple foods are the most concentrated source of carbs in our diet, provide us with protein, are low in fat, packed with essential vitamins and minerals …
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The lowdown on reducing the GI of your diet GI critics tend to say that understanding the glycemic index and putting it into practice is too complicated for the average person. It makes you wonder if they’ve ever tried, if they actually know what they are talking about, if they have another agenda, if they …
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Something to chew on Periodontitis is a leading cause of tooth loss in adults – around 30% have it. It’s a serious infection that destroys the soft bone and tissue that support your teeth but it is both treatable and preventable. It’s long been known that daily brushing and flossing and regular professional cleaning can …
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Burning up As you break out in a sweat over a bowl of chilli, think of the benefits. Not just reducing insulin demand as we reported in GI News in August, but helping you burn calories while you eat. Researchers from Maastricht University, Wageningen Centre of Food Science in Holland, and Laval University in Quebec …
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A high carb diet: is it still the ideal public health message? The proportion of people with excess body fat has doubled in the last two decades despite all our efforts to slim down. Between half and two-thirds of adults in developed nations are classed as overweight or obese. Men are worse off than women, …
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Slow Carb Not Low Carb In May, ‘News Brief’ reported on a woman who was hospitalised for life-threatening ketoacidosis after following the Atkins diet. We then listed the reasons why we advocated a low GI diet rather than a low carbohydrate diet. Some of our readers admonished us for our stance. Here are their comments …
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Let’s Do Lunch While most people agree that eating a healthy lunch is important, one in three skip it at least once a week, and one in 10 rarely or never have it according to a recent ACNeilsen Omnibus poll of 1,400 Australians. ‘Too busy’ is the main catch-cry of lunch-skippers. ‘We don’t have time …
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Eating for Your Eyesight Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive eye disease that affects the central macula of the eye, leaving sufferers with only peripheral vision. It is one is the most common causes of blindness in the over-50s in the Western world. As we age our risk increases: people in their 50s have …
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Potato Lovers Look Back to a Healthy Future There’s a ‘modest positive association between the consumption of potatoes and the risk of type 2 diabetes in women’ write the authors in a prospective study reported in the February 2006 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. ‘This association was more pronounced when potatoes were …
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People Power for People with Diabetes In February GI News, Atarah Grysman made the point that: ‘Many people today are ready and willing to be active participants in their own health care. They want to learn more about their conditions and how to manage them, even if this entails more than a few simple rules, …
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