I received an e-newsletter yesterday which advocated “Fat is beautiful” and proceeded to extol the virtues of a little rolly polly to aid with some aspects of health. How’s that for flying in the face of what around 40% of women strive to attain?
It seems from where I sit in my office in the sky, that those of us who don’t need to loose much weight go diet crazy, whereas the more obese among us keep troughing the pastries, crisps and cream doughnuts and need a little more help with this. I suppose its keeping our eyes on health and wellness and ruling out obsession? None of us can argue with the heart disease mortality figures.
With all the interest around in weight loss and nutrition I have naturally been embroiled in several diet schemes which have hit the media – the Hamptons Diet, Southbeach, Gillian McKeith and Adios to name a few of the more recent ones which have passed my desk and been available from GoodnessDirect. But I must say I am rather taken by the GI (Glycemic Index) approach. This diet is based on the rate at which the food we consume converts and is taken into our blood stream as sugars. Glucose absorption (if that’s the right word) is taken as 100 and is used as the control and all other foods are given a number to rate it against this. The lower the number the better. Glucose being taken into our blood so quickly causes a sugar rush. Outwardly we may feel great for a short time, energy zoom, but this is short lived as inwardly our bodies release insulin to counteract this mass influx of sugars and try to calm it down (sorry for the lack for scientific lingo).
It succeeds and the result is that we feel flat and sluggish, maybe even depressed and need our next “fix”. More sugary foods – yum.
Foods with low GI rating on the other hand release the sugars into our blood streams more slowly – we don’t feel hungry so quickly – get it? It does make sense doesn’t it and there is more good news ‘cos the range of foods is massive, and there are more do’s than don’ts. There is plenty of information about GI and ratings and I am in the process of gleaning what I can to put on the GD website. I’m using the books written on the subject, plus the www.GlycemicIndex.com which gives loads of info and research done by Sydney University in Australia. They seem to be the leaders in the field at the moment with some quality info here. The testing done in the UK at Leatherhead to give foods their GI rating even uses the Sydney Uni methodology.
I’m in the process of creating a list of indicators for the products on the GoodnessDirect website, but if anyone out there has any authorative info on GI – I’m yer gal. All info appreciated, especially if you’re trying the diet.
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Every Day with Rachael Ray
October 2006
Low Fat Donuts discovered
Holey Donuts!(tm) Ultra Low Fat Gourmet Donuts
New York, NY — JAN 04 , 2007 – The low-fat donut has been the Holy Grail of the food industry. Food companies have been able to take most of the fat out of everything from cheese to Twinkies, but no one has succeeded in designing a marketable donut that dips below 4 grams of fat per serving before now.
Holey Donuts!™ announces a major innovation in the donut industry with the introduction of Ultra Low Fat Gourmet Donuts. Holey Donuts! has a unique patent pending process that avoids deep frying and produces a great tasting donut with only 3 to 4 grams of fat, unlike the 15 to 20 grams of fat in other donuts.
Holey Donuts! has created an extended line of ultra low fat gourmet donuts and cinnamon buns. These products are guaranteed to please the palate of even the most discerning donut lover while dramatically lowering fat content with zero trans-fats yet nothing about these donuts tastes low fat, its just amazing. Significantly, Holey Donuts! Ultra Low Fat Gourmet Donuts and Cinnamon Buns contain zero trans- fats,zero cholesterol and no artificial sweeteners or fat substitutes, and they just taste great.
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