GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay The ‘new’ Australian Dietary Guidelines, carbs and GI The draft (there’s still time to comment) Australian Dietary Guidelines are a definite improvement on earlier versions. But they represent a mix of progress and lost opportunities and we must do much better if we are going to tackle the diabetes and obesity epidemics. …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Celebrating the low GI way You don’t have to forsake all of your favourite foods to avoid the battle of the bulge. Watching the amount of food you eat and swapping rich and fatty high GI foods for healthy low GI alternatives will help keep you on an even keel over the …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay The incredible GI journey Research on the GI started a world-wide glucose revolution as it clearly showed that carbs didn’t affect our BGLs the way we thought they did at all. Initially freeing people with diabetes from overly restrictive diets, using the GI as a dietary tool has moved on to weight …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Reducing your risk of breast cancer through a healthy lifestyle In Australia and the US, breast cancer accounts for around 1 in 4 cases of all cancers, and the number of cases has more than doubled over the past 25 years. There are a large number of risk factors for breast cancer …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay What’s missing from traffic light labelling? Like many countries, Australia is in the midst of an overweight/obesity epidemic and this in turn is creating an epidemic of diet-related chronic diseases, most notably type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke). Australian Government policy guidelines around food labelling have “agreed to …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Is salt reduction the only answer to reducing the risk of dying of a heart attack or stroke? “Cutting down on the amount of salt has no clear benefits in terms of likelihood of dying or experiencing cardiovascular disease (CVD).” reports a new Cochrane Review. Part of the reason for this discouraging …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay A new cure for diabetes? A new study in the Lancet has crunched the numbers and tells us that in just under 30 years, the number of adults with type 2 diabetes has more than doubled from 153 million in 1980 to 347 million in 2008 . Most due to increasing numbers …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay ‘Swap it. Don’t stop it.’ What does it mean? ‘It just means swapping some of the things I’m doing now for healthier choices’, says Eric, the balloon man at the centre of a campaign here in Australia that’s aiming to encourage us to adopt some simple healthy weight management techniques and reduce …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Eat foods, not nutrients In his NYT piece Unhappy Meals Michael Pollan documents the ‘shift from eating food to eating nutrients’ and argues that relying solely on information regarding individual nutrients has led people and policy makers to repeatedly make poor decisions relating to food and nutrition over the last forty years. …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Kick start your day with a healthy low GI breakfast Breakfast does just that. As the first meal of the day, it breaks the overnight fast, jump-starts your metabolism and generally gets you going. After an overnight fast your body’s energy stores are starting to run low, so a good breakfast replenishes …
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