GI News—November 2006
In This Issue: Food For Thought —The lowdown on reducing the GI of your diet GI News Briefs —What’s best for baby? —Eat to beat acne —Acne and hormones Low GI Food of the Month —Fill up not out with low GI lentils Low GI Recipes of the Month —Poached peaches with vanilla yoghurt and …
Food for Thought
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 …
GI News Briefs
What’s best for baby? Being born big is not better when it comes to babies. We now know from a number of studies that a baby’s birth weight can set the pattern for life, predicting long-term risk of obesity and chronic disease. A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that …
Low GI Food of the Month
Fill up not out with low GI lentils If you have diabetes, lentils are one food you should learn to love – you can eat them until the cows come home. In fact, our dietitians report that no matter how much of them you eat, they have only a small effect on your blood glucose …
Low GI Recipes of the Month
The recipes this month come from The Low GI Vegetarian Cookbook. The book is available in Australia now and will be published (the publishers say) in the US and UK in November and December respectively. Poached Peaches with Vanilla Yoghurt and Marinated Raspberries Serves 4 Preparation time 5 minutes; Cooking time 10 minutes; Chilling time …
Your Success Stories
‘I am so pleased with the results of a low GI diet I want to share my experience’ – Robert You may think I am being premature in writing like this but I am writing to say thank you for the existence of the low GI diet and all the researchers and others who have …
Books, DVDs, Websites: What’s New?
US and ANZ editions of The Shopper’s Guide to GI Values 2007 now available Prof. Jennie Brand-Miller and Kaye Foster-Powell with Fiona Atkinson Check out the latest GI values for your favourite foods in this annual handy pocket guide. Includes: The GI values for hundreds of foods The values listed in A-Z tables by food …
Feedback—Your FAQs Answered
Is there any way I can change a bad carb like potatoes into a good carb? Or mellow a bad carb’s effects? We tend not to talk good carbs bad carbs. We think it is more a question of balance. While you’ll benefit from eating healthy low GI carbs at each meal or for snacks, …
GI Values Update
Many of the products in GI Values Update are not available in the USA. Why’s that? The answer is pretty simple. Very few US companies are GI testing their products, and those that are don’t always release the results for publication. Where do the values we publish in GI News come from? We publish the …
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