Different Glycemic Indexes of Breakfast Cereals Are Not Due to Glucose Entry into Blood but to Glucose Removal by Tissue.
This is another older paper that I wanted to talk about since it ties in somewhat with the feedback on milk below. In way of introduction, I should probably define glycemic index (GI) for readers who aren’t familiar with it.
The GI is used to rate carbohydrates by examining the blood glucose response to 50 grams of digestible carbohydrates. After fasting, subjects are first given some reference food; this used to be glucose but researchers now use white bread. The blood glucose response to white bread is defined as 100. Then, the test food is given and the blood glucose response is measured and compared to that of the test food. A food that shows 60% of the blood glucose response to white bread is given a GI of 60.
Comparing the Diets: Part 4
And finally we come to the low-carbohydrate or ketogenic diet, the diet with perhaps the greatest amount of controversy and argument surrounding it. Now, at the risk of beating a dead horse, and since I find many of my critics to be a little slow on the uptake, I’m going to go off on one last rant about this topic.
Comparing the Diets: Part 3
The next major dietary camp refers to any diet consisting of relatively moderate carbohydrate and dietary fat intakes. This includes diets such as Barry Sear’s “The Zone”, Dan Duchaine’s “Isocaloric diet”, 30/40/30 nutrition and others. Such diets generally recommend a macronutrient split based on fairly equal amounts of protein, carbs and fat. Various scientific rationales, usually involving hormonal control are typically given.
Comparing the Diets: Part 2
In Comparing the Diets: Part 1, I made some introductory comments about the different primary approaches to dieting which are high-carbohydrate/low-fat, moderate carb/moderate fat, and low-carbohydrate/high-fat. I also defined my terms as to what I mean by high, moderate and low. In the next parts of this article series, I want to examine each of […]
Comparing the Diets: Part 1
If you read diet literature, it seems as if there are nearly an infinite number of dietary approaches out there. However, once you start looking at it in terms of generalities, you find that this isn’t really the case. The number of distinct dietary approaches is actually quite minimal.
