News Briefs
Low-fat chocolate milk and recovery after exercise A recent study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise reported that post-exercise consumption of low-fat chocolate milk provided equal or possibly superior muscle recovery compared to a high-carbohydrate recovery beverage with the same number of calories. We asked Dr Emma Stevenson to comment. ‘Several studies have …
News Briefs
5 tips to reduce your risk of diabetes When researchers checked out the lifestyle habits of some 4,900 adults, aged 65 or older and without diabetes over a 10-year period, they found that the factors associated with low risk for diabetes were: physical activity a healthy diet no smoking moderate alcohol use not being overweight …
News Briefs
Why low GI foods make you feel full Researchers at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at King’s College London report that low GI meals increased the levels of GLP-1 gut hormone levels, leading to the suppression of appetite and the feeling of fullness in a paper presented at the annual society for endocrinology BES …
News Briefs
Is it finally the end of fad diet wars? It’s not the type of diet that makes a difference it’s cutting back on the calories that counts. This is the principal finding of a study in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that compared four heart-healthy, weight-loss diets. Consisting of similar foods, the diets …
News Briefs
Low GI diet significantly helps people improve blood glucose control The aim of diabetes management is to keep blood glucose levels as close as possible to the normal range (4–8 mmol/L, which translates to 65–110 mg/dL), to improve quality of life (and life expectancy) and reduce the risk of complications, heart attack and stroke. A …
News Briefs
Senior moments? It may be your blood glucose. Senior moments are a normal, albeit unwelcome, part of aging, rather like wrinkling skin and graying hair. Scientists call them ‘cognitive aging,’ the result of changes in brain chemistry and physiology that affect our brain’s ability to think. Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center in New York …
News Briefs
Healthy curves Studies are showing that when it comes to blood glucose, it’s the roller-coaster ride (the sharp glucose spike and the degree of blood glucose fluctuation) after eating that’s the problem as it can damage the body, contributing to the development of chronic diseases, particularly atherosclerosis. The American Diabetes Association still emphasises the amount …
News Briefs
How tight is right and how to get there With the explosive development of new classes of blood glucose-lowering medications offering an increased number of treatment choices, the question for physicians and for people with diabetes is how tight is right and how to get there. In an editorial in Archives of Internal Medicine, Dr …
News Briefs
GI of over 2,480 individual food items published The International tables of glycemic index 2008 produced by researchers from the University of Sydney’s Human Nutrition Unit have been published online in Diabetes Care. The tables give the GI (glycemic index) of over 2,480 individual food items – doubling previous data. The key findings says lead …
News Briefs
Canadian Diabetes Association announces new Clinical Practice Guidelines One of three key nutrition messages of the new guidelines is ‘Replacing high-glycemic index carbohydrates with low-glycemic index carbohydrates in mixed meals has a clinically significant effect on glycemic control in people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.’ The other two key nutrition messages: ‘Nutrition therapy …
Latest Blog Post List
