Low glycaemic index (GI) foods minimize large blood glucose fluctuations and have been advocated to enhance fat oxidation and may contribute to weight management. We determined whether the inclusion of isomaltulose compared to sucrose in a low/high GI meal sequence can modulate the glycaemic response and substrate oxidation in an Asian population. Twenty Chinese men (body mass index (BMI): 17-2...

Diabetes mellitus type 2 is the most common degenerative disease in Indonesia, so that regulation of food intake important. Food sources carbohydrates with a low glycemic index (GI) can control blood sugar levels. GI rate at which absorbed into glucose. Purple sweet potato has it suitable as an alternative source carbohydrates. Different cooking processes affect purple potato, frying technique ...

OBJECTIVE To systematically tabulate published and unpublished sources of reliable glycemic index (GI) values. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A literature search identified 205 articles published between 1981 and 2007. Unpublished data were also included where the data quality could be verified. The data were separated into two lists: the first representing more precise data derived from testing...

The glycemic index (GI) is a system that ranks foods according to the blood glucose-increasing potential of servings of foods that provide the same amount of available carbohydrate. The GI was originally developed as a tool for carbohydrate exchange in the dietary management of glycemia in persons with diabetes, and studies have generally supported modest benefits of low-GI diets in this popula...

An increasing body of evidence suggests that a low-glycaemic-index (GI) diet has a therapeutic as well as a preventive potential in relation to the insulin resistance syndrome. The implementation of a low-GI diet, however, will require an extended list of low-GI foods to be available on the market. The tailoring of low-GI bread products offers a particular challenge due to their generally high ...

BACKGROUND Metabolic syndrome (MetS) continues to be highly prevalent and contributes to a rapidly growing problem worldwide. The most important therapeutic intervention for metabolic syndrome is diet modification, an intervention whose efficacy has been proven for metabolic syndrome. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of low glycemic index diet versus metformi...

The emerging role of endothelial inflammation in diabetes has stimulated research interest in the effects of nutrition on related indices. In the current study we investigated whether the nutrient composition of dietary formula as reflected in glycemic index (GI) may be predictive of postprandial endothelial inflammation in non-diabetic subjects. A double-blinded, randomized, crossover study wa...

The overall goal of this project was to create a basis of knowledge on factors in rice that can be altered to moderate starch digestion rate and lower rice glycemic index (GI), as well as to identify existing US rice genotypes with relatively low GI. To achieve this, studies were designed to investigate the relationship between amylopectin structure, its branching characteristics, and starch di...

BACKGROUND We sought to separately examine the effects of either weight loss or diets varying in protein content and glycemic index without further changes in body weight on cardiovascular risk factors within the Diet, Obesity, and Genes study (DiOGenes). METHODS AND RESULTS DiOGenes is a pan-European controlled dietary intervention study in 932 overweight adults who first lost body weight on...