For one, the diet doesn’t look at a food as a whole, and some highly-nutritious foods have a high glycemic index. For example ...

And that's good for the cells. It's good for the mitochondria inside the cells, the little furnaces that produce energy. All right. So a low-glycemic index diet makes you feel good.

A low-glycemic index (low-GI) diet is a meal plan focused on how foods impact blood sugar levels, also known as blood glucose levels. The glycemic index ranks foods on a scale from 0 to 100.

The paper, “Low glycemic index rice: a healthier diet for countering the diabetes epidemic in Asia,” published in Trends in Plant Science by Cell Press, proposes that the development of Low GI ...

More information: Rhowell N. Tiozon et al, Low glycemic index rice: a healthier diet for countering diabetes epidemic in Asia, Trends in Plant Science (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.003 ...

When following the high-protein, low-GI (glycaemic index) diet, you alter the types of food you eat in order to increase the gut hormone signal to your brain and trigger the ‘stop eating’ signal.

Some measures of glycemic control and coronary risk factors also improved more in participants who received the Mediterranean than the low-fat diet. As evidence mounts for the benefits of a ...