Pasta is sometimes referred to as a low-glycemic-index (GI) or medium-GI food because the GI of many pastas are in the 40s or 50s, much lower than the GI of white bread or rice cakes.
By way of comparison, the GI of sucrose (table sugar) is about 60, the GI of white bread is about 70, and the GI of white rice is about 65.
The glycemic index is... Read more
Two recent news reports illustrate a problem I’ve discussed before: the fact that health news reporting is often misleading.
The news media pounce on some study showing a small effect of some food or supplement and tout it as if eating that substance (or not eating it) is going to prevent diabetes or heart disease or even... Read more
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Everyone tells us we should get regular exercise. I'd like to be able to say that I play a couple of games of squash every day. But I don't. I would, of course, if I just had my own squash court, so it's not really my fault. It might also help if I knew how to play squash.
That's just one of the many excuses I can... Read more
Vegetables are good for you, and the more veggies you eat,
the healthier and thinner you'll be, right?
Well, the former is probably true, but the latter may not
always be.
A Chinese study came up with the -- to Americans -- paradoxical finding that the more
vegetables people ate, the fatter they were.
Why? Because the... Read more
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