KEEP GOOD CARBS AND CARRY ON
EYE HEALTH: THE AYES HAVE IT FOR VEG Guest contributor Diabetes Victoria Dietitian Kim Duggan-Larkin APD explains why. It’s common knowledge that eating lots of carrots is great for our eyes. Many people have also got the message that green leafy vegetables are good too. The evidence to date suggests it’s their antioxidants that protect …
KEEP GOOD CARBS AND CARRY ON
EAT YOUR VEG It’s hard to imagine a dinner time when the spotlight wasn’t on “eat your veggies”. But it wasn’t long ago – a bit over 100 years. The discovery of vitamins and minerals in the early years of the twentieth century was the wakeup call, and “Dr Vitamin” (Elmer Verner McCollum, 1879–1967) was …
KEEP GOOD CARBS AND CARRY ON
VEG SOUP VEG It’s so good to pull out the soup pot when those icy blasts announce there’s a change in the weather. Good carbs and good soup are joined at the hip and without the good carbs there’s no good soup, it’s as simple as that. There’s nothing like a hearty veg soup that’s …
KEEP GOOD CARBS AND CARRY ON
GRAPEFRUIT Grapefruit is a relative newcomer to the fruit bowl. Our hunter-gather forebears would not have bumped into it in the forest. But they may have met its parents, the pummelo and the orange because it’s a shining example of citrus doing what comes naturally – cross pollinating. The deed was probably done in Barbados …
Food of the Month
Grapefruit The tang of fresh grapefruit (GI 25) will not only start your day with zest, just half a medium-sized one will deliver around 70% of your daily dose of vitamin C. Canned grapefruit segments (GI 47) and commercial grapefruit juice (GI 48) are easy year-round options when fresh fruit isn’t available, but as you …
Food of the Month
Milk and yogurt in a low GI diet Reduced or low fat or skim dairy and soy milk and yogurt are handy foods to have on hand for healthy drinks or snacks that can lower the overall GI of your diet. Milk’s low GI (20–34 for various skim to regular fat cow milks) is a …
Renovate your Recipes
Renovate your recipes – tips for reducing the amount and improving the quality of fat Kaye Foster-Powell The problem with fat is the amount we eat, sometimes without realising it. Fat provides more calories per gram (9 cals or 37 kJ) than protein or carbs (4 cals per gram each), which is why fat is …
Renovate your Recipes
Low fat evaporated milks When renovating recipes, one key aim is to reduce the amount (and improve the quality) of the fats and oils in your diet. This means that delectable ingredients like cream, butter, bacon, cheese and chocolate (that appear in large amounts in chef recipes these days) need to stay on the shelf …
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