BACKGROUND The Food Insulin Index (FII) is a novel classification of single foods based on insulin responses in healthy subjects relative to an isoenergetic reference food. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to compare day-long responses to 2 nutrient-matched diets predicted to have either high or low insulin demand in healthy controls and individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). DESIGN Twenty adults (1...

Reliable tables of glycemic index (GI) compiled from the scientific literature are instrumental in improving the quality of research examining the relation between GI, glycemic load, and health. The GI has proven to be a more useful nutritional concept than is the chemical classification of carbohydrate (as simple or complex, as sugars or starches, or as available or unavailable), permitting ne...

Morning serum leptin values in humans are inconsistently altered by diet, and the molecular mechanisms controlling the diurnal leptin pattern remain unexplained. We determined whether leptin values after meals or the leptin diurnal pattern was altered by the type of carbohydrate (CHO) ingested in diets containing either 20% or 30% fat. In a randomized, crossover study design, nine healthy lean ...

Background/Objective A significant percentage of obese children develop metabolic abnormalities. The aim of the study was to investigate whether the diet of the overweight/obese Greek children and adolescents who develop metabolic syndrome (MS) differ from the diet of those who do not concerning glycemic index (GI), glycemic load (GL) and macronutrient intake. Methods Three-day food diaries wer...

Glycemic impact, defined as "the weight of glucose that would induce a glycemic response equivalent to that induced by a given amount of food" (American Association of Cereal Chemists Glycemic Carbohydrate Definition Committee, 2007), expresses relative glycemic potential in grams of glycemic glucose equivalents (GGEs) per specified amount of food. Therefore, GGE behaves as a food component, an...

Background: Food products with a low Glycemic index (GI) help control blood glucose levels and may also reduce body weight. The risk of obesity-related chronic diseases increases the consumption refined carbohydrate-rich or diet high GI food choices. Vidaslim®, an Oral Nutrition Supplement was formulated by Signutra Inc, protein blend (whey, soy, casein), dietary Fiber (polydextrose), several p...

Fetal growth and development is primarily dependent upon the nutritional, hormonal and metabolic environment provided by the mother. A wartime famine study in Holland first showed that a low food intake reduces the glucose offered to the fetus and thus produces smaller size infants at birth. Maternal glucose regulation is however affected by numerous factors including physiological changes of p...