GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Overweight, obesity and diabetes are on the up downunder. The latest results from Australia’s largest population health study, AusDiab, show that rates of diabetes continue to increase around the nation. When AusDiab began in 1999–2000, 8.5% of the adult population 25 and over had diabetes; in 2011–12 that number had increased to …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Rice – enjoy it, but don’t overdo it and opt for lower GI varieties The Chinese were the first to cultivate rice more than 8000 years ago, and over the millenia, it has spread all around the world. It is such a success story as a crop that today it is considered …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Low GI, gluten-free foods. Coeliac disease is becoming increasingly common, affecting around 1 in 100 people in Australia and the UK, and 1 in 133 Americans. People with coeliac disease’ own immune system reacts abnormally to the protein gluten found in wheat, rye, and barley (and often a contaminant in oats, depending …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Give us this day our daily bread. Taken literally, this line from the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9–13 and Luke 11:2–4) reminds us that bread has been a staple food for humankind for millenia. And still today it is consumed at breakfast, lunch and dinner time, and often for snacks in many parts …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Milk and yoghurt: nutritious and inexpensive low GI foods for the whole family. Dairy foods like milk and yoghurt are great sources of essential nutrients like calcium, magnesium, zinc, vitamin A, riboflavin (B2), B12, protein and low GI carbs. Generally we recommend reduced or low fat varieties for most people over the …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay When it comes to blood cholesterol, both fats and carbohydrates count. For many years, dietary advice to help people lower their blood cholesterol has focused on the fats in our diets. Specifically, people with high blood cholesterol have been advised to reduce their consumption of foods high in saturated and trans fats …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Reduce that load and reduce your risk. A-grade research (think Olympic gold level) from around the world over the past 20-plus years has shown pretty conclusively that type 2 diabetes is not caused by any single nutrient or food (such as sugar) but from a combination of diet and lifestyle risk factors. …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Not all refined carbs are high GI. Despite frequently being used interchangeably in the media and scientific reports ‘refined carbohydrate’ and ‘high GI’ are not the same thing. In fact using them as if they were may have adverse effects on some people’s health as some refined carb foods (like pasta) have …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay New health claim legislation for Australia and New Zealand includes provisions for GI. Food Standards Australia and New Zealand’s (FSANZ) draft food standard to regulate nutrition content claims and health claims on food labels and in advertisements was recently approved by the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation clearing the way …
GI Symbol News with Dr Alan Barclay
Dr Alan Barclay Put your money where your mouth is This is a popular challenge in a variety of situations, but I have rarely heard it in the context of what we actually do put in our mouths. As Dr David Katz points out in Food for Thought ‘We respect how money will affect the …
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