BACKGROUND Dietary carbohydrates, glycemic load and glycemic index have been hypothesized to influence pancreatic cancer risk, but epidemiological studies have been inconsistent. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies to clarify these results. METHODS PubMed and several other databases were searched for prospective studies of intake of carbohydrates, glycemi...

The use of Geographic Information or GI, has grown rapidly in recent years. Previous research has identified the importance of usability and user centred design in enabling the proliferation and exploitation of GI. However, the design and development of usable GI is not simply a matter of applying the tried and tested usability methods that have been developed for software and web design. Deali...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationship between dietary glycemic index (GI) and retinal microvasculature in adults. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 300 subjects from the EVIDENT II study. Dietary GI was calculated using a validated, semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire. Retinal photographs were digitized, temporal vessels were measured in an area 0.5-1 disc diameter from t...

Kizirian, N., Kong, Y., Muirhead, R., Brodie, S., Garnett, S., Petocz, P., Sim, K., Celermajer, D., Louie, J., Markovic, T., Ross, G., Brand-Miller, J., Skilton, M., et al (2016). Effects of a low-glycemic index diet during pregnancy on offspring growth, body composition, and vascular health: A pilot randomized controlled trial. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 103(4), 1073-1082. <a ...

Insulin and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) are associated with increased risk of breast cancer in several studies. Circulating concentrations of insulin increase with dietary consumption of high glycemic index foods, which, in turn, may influence IGF-I levels or activity, but the relevance of such dietary patterns for breast cancer risk is unclear. We investigated whether consumption of c...

BACKGROUND Foods with a low glycemic index are increasingly being acknowledged as beneficial in relation to the insulin resistance syndrome. Certain organic acids can lower the glycemic index of bread products. However, the possible effect of acids in fermented milk products on the glycemic index and on insulinemic characteristics has not been addressed. The metabolic effects of fermented milk ...

Definition 1.1 (Direct Products). Let {Gα}α∈I be a collection of groups indexed by an index set I. We may form the Cartesian product ∏ α∈I Gα. The elements of this Cartesian product can be denoted by tuples (aα)α∈I . We refer to the entry aα as the αth component of this tuple. We define a multiplication on this Cartesian product componentwise, i.e., (aα) ⋆ (bα) = (aα ⋆α bα) where ⋆α is the grou...

Background & Aims: Date syrup is a natural sweetener rich in antioxidants. In addition, fructose is the predominant sugar in date syrup, which elevates blood glucose at a slower pace than the other types of sugar. The objective of this study was to evaluate the glycemic response of healthy persons to dietetic sour cherry jam prepared with date syrup. Methods: In this clinical trial, the glycemi...

Interest in the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities has been stimulated by recent data that demonstrate that fungal communities influence the competitive hierarchies, productivity, diversity, and successional patterns of plant communities. Although natural communities of AM fungi are diverse, we have a poor understanding of the mechanisms that promote and maintain that d...