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• GI News—September 2010 August 31, 2010
  Wanted! Low GI fast food choices Why it’s time to raise the bar and lower the GI cut-offs for fast foods Low carb or low fat for weight loss? The choice is yours if you can stick to itMasterchef. The other ‘big M’ and healthy home-cooked meals How nutrition health halos trick us into treatingWill you have a statin with that?‘If starting tomorrow at noon, we […]
• Food for Thought August 31, 2010
  It’s time to raise the bar and lower the GI cut-offs for fast foods and convenience meals The GI was introduced back in 1981 to rate the glycemic character of the carbohydrate in individual foods like bread, breakfast cereal, rice, pasta, apples etc. The purpose was to exchange one carbohydrate source with another for snacks and in your meals (e.g. replacing […]
• News Briefs August 31, 2010
  Wanted! Low GI fast food choices Carmel Smart's study in Diabetes Care reported that swapping high GI for low GI carbs in 4 healthy breakfast options brought additional benefits for children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes on multiple daily injections and helped reduce post-meal hyperglycemia. What happens, however, when young people with type 1 take […]
• Get the Scoop on Nutrition with Emma Stirling August 31, 2010
  The scoop on nutrition health halos and how they trick us into treats Emma Stirling APD In today’s health-aware world we are bombarded with nutrition messages. Words like ‘natural’, ‘diet’, ‘light’, and ‘low- or no-fat’ entice us with ‘ticks’, ‘star bursts’ and other bells and whistles every time we shop or stop for food. But can you accurately assess these […]
• In the GI News Kitchen August 31, 2010
  American dietitian and author of Good Carbs, Bad Carbs, Johanna Burani, shares favourite recipes with a low or moderate GI from her Italian kitchen. For more information, check out Johanna's website. The photographs are by Sergio Burani. His food, travel and wine photography website is photosbysergio.com. Rice pudding with almond cherry sauce Cherries a […]