Health Burden of Obesity Rises
The negative impact of obesity on the quality and quantity of life more than doubled within a span of just 15 years, researchers report.
Glycemic Index Foods & Carb Friendly Food Lists
- GI News - February 2019 January 31, 2019GI News is published online every month by the University of Sydney, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and the Charles Perkins Centre, and delivered to the mailboxes of our 97,000 subscribers. Our goal is to help people choose the high-quality carbs that are digested at a rate that our bodies can comfortably accommodate and […]
- FOOD FOR THOUGHT January 31, 2019FERMENTED FOODS ARE BACK Fermented foods have burst onto the health scene and are packing the supermarket shelves. What are they? Do the health claims stack up? Here, dietitian Nicole Senior checks them out and Prof Jennie Brand-Miller explains why many are low GI. Everywhere you look there is a revival of time-honoured food preserving skills including […]
- WHAT’S NEW? January 31, 2019YOGHURT – ITS INSULINEMIC INDEX IS HIGHER THAN ITS GINumerous studies over the past 20 years have shown that high yoghurt intake is associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. In Nutrition Today, Prof Tom Wolever talks about yoghurt’s glycemic and insulinemic impact of yoghurt. “There is evidence that low GI and low […]