GI News—January 2006
In This Issue: Why Nutrition Changes Tesco Tests Getting Satisfaction What Kids Want What’s Cooking? And How? Pulses (Legumes) Help Fight Diabetes Fresh Plum and Ricotta Strudel Success Stories—Sarah and Felix Nutrition for Life I have recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I am trying to eat a healthy low GI diet, but find …
Food for Thought
Why Nutrition Changes By Catherine Saxelby People often ask me why we nutritionists keep changing our minds! One year, carbohydrate is wonderful, the next year it’s not. One year, fat is a no-no, the next year, it’s only saturated fat the we should worry about, the other fats are ‘good’ fats that are OK to …
GI News Briefs
Tesco Tests The results of GI testing of 140 foods commercially available in the UK for the supermarket giant Tesco are published for the first time in the British Journal of Nutrition. The testing, conducted by the Oxford Brookes team led by Prof. Jeya K. Henry, found that the majority of GI values of UK …
GI Values Update
What’s Cooking? And How? Critics like to complain about the fact that the GI of a food can change with the way you cook it or prepare the food and the overall GI of a meal can vary depending on what you serve. But if they gave this a bit of thought, they would see …
Low GI Food of the Month
Pulses (Legumes) Help Fight Diabetes By Rosie Schwartz Using your bean is definitely one of the smartest nutritional moves you can make. In the battle against diabetes, pulses (beans, chickpeas and lentils) appear to offer a wide range of weapons. Firstly, because of their effects on weight control, they provide a front line defence. Achieving …
Your Success Stories
Sarah ‘I want to share with you about how applying the “GI factor” to what I eat has changed my life! I was always slim until I reached about 15, then over a period of three years I put on more and more weight. I do not really know why this was, maybe pressure from …
Books, DVDs, Websites: What’s New?
Nutrition for Life Catherine Saxelby Want to know more about our food, food habits and nutrition? Then Nutrition for Life is for you. Catherine Saxelby has that very rare talent of being able to explain complex information in simple, consumer friendly terms. She is one of Australia’s most trusted nutritionists and food commentators who understands …
Feedback—Your FAQs Answered
‘I have recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I am trying to eat a healthy low GI diet, but find it hard to say no to occasional treat foods like crisps and chocolate. Which is better for my blood glucose?’ Most people with diabetes would see the chocolate bar as taboo, but by measuring …
