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 …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Low GI and low carb are NOT the same There are a growing number of foods and beverages on supermarket shelves with packaging claims which are designed to encourage us to believe they will have a minimal impact on our blood glucose levels. Typical claims include ‘low carb’, ‘low glycemic’ and of …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Snacking to keep your energy up and your BGLs down in an emergency People in Queensland and Victoria here in Australia have been faced with real emergencies this summer. It has been fantastic to see an organisation like Baked Relief cooking their hearts out to help victims and rescuers alike keep going. …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay A healthy low GI diet is achievable There’s pretty compelling evidence from population health studies and clinical trials around the world that as part of an overall healthy, balanced diet, we should aim for an average dietary GI of around 45 for longterm health and wellbeing. It’s not as hard as it …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Maintain weight loss with a low GI Diet and a little more protein The Diogenes Study, which was set up to investigate whether people who have undergone recent major weight loss could maintain that lower weight, has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine . The researchers led by Professor …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay How scientists measure a food’s GI value GI testing has a very strict protocol in order to detect true differences in the glycemic potential of the carbohydrates in different foods. Here’s how we test the GI of a food following the protocol set out by the International Standards Organization: Step 1. Ten …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Sweet truths? Amidst a rash of ‘natural’ ‘cane sugar’ and ‘beet sugar’ claims on foods labels across the US, producers of high fructose corn syrups (HFCS) – one of the top of the pops candidates for the cause of the obesity epidemic in the US (according to various nutrition nannies) has decided …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Lowering the GI of fast food and convenience meals Food companies around the globe have made concerted efforts to reduce sodium/salt, saturated and trans fats in the food supply. In Australia, for example, the Heart Foundation’s Tick program estimates it has helped remove 235 tonnes of salt from the Australian food supply, …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Why you don’t need to keep count of the GI values of your meals and snacks With the current trend to count each and every gram of carbohydrate (or every calorie/kilojoule) in a food or beverage, it is easy to understand that some people feel that they should be adding up the …
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