'Low glycemic' diet beneficial in diabetic youth

Peter Dalton
01 August 2008

Glycemic index, or GI, refers to how quickly a food causes blood sugar to rise. High-GI foods, like white bread and potatoes, have a tendency to spur a quick surge in blood sugar, whilst low-GI foods, like lentils, soybeans, yogurt and several high-fiber grains, create a more gradual increase in blood sugar.

Dr Tonja R Nansel of the nation's Institute of Kid Health and Human Development and co-workers tested the effects of high GI and low GI meals on blood sugar levels using successive blood sugar monitoring in twenty type one diabetics who were between the ages of seven and sixteen years. A farmer displays a few soybeans, an example of a low-GI food. "When consuming the low GI diet, blood glucose ( sugar ) levels were in the target range 66 % of the time compared to 47 % of the time when consuming the high GI diet" she explained. When consuming the low GI diet, study subjects also demonstrated noticeably lower daytime average blood sugar levels compared to the high GI diet and less blood sugar excursions. "It is plausible" based totally on the results of this study, Nansel recounted, "that a low glycemic index diet may reduce the dose of insulin needed whilst improving blood sugar control.

Kody Gates said:
Baked beans ily liver is exactly as it sounds - a build-up over time of fat deposits round the organ.
05 August 2008 16:32:09

redalert said:
Yup, GI diet is seriously ananas In folks with the highest WC, a high GI diet was related to a 35 p.c. increased risk of breast cancer.
06 August 2008 05:57:00

Deven said:
Our body does notk now what to do with this nutritive nuclear waste, and forces it into fat stores.
06 August 2008 11:28:50

Jesse said:
I think it's only down to the luck of the draw if you've a boy or girl. !
06 August 2008 15:24:28

Steven said:
been hanging on for this post for a long time?
07 August 2008 11:20:13

Julien said:
a top quality blog!
08 August 2008 00:03:30

WorldCom said:
Between one / four and twelve all overweight Yank kids are thought to have the condtiion.
09 August 2008 23:18:50