Re: How to combine low fat, low sugar, low simple carbohydrates, low oxalate, low purine dietary recommendations. Food shopping. Portions preparations.

spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote in part:

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:31:39 GMT, Jim Chinnis <jchinnis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Ron Peterson" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:


spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I just have this feeling about energy density of foods, and how it
might be helpful to have a density number from 0 to 10 displayed
boldly on packaging. I got this "aha" from someone a few weeks ago
mentioning the low density of the Okinawan diet of the past which
possibly helped the Okinawans live such healthy lives.
It really seems that the modern western disease is just too much
energy. jack

Does the glycemic index make sense since it tries to eliminate a spike
in carbohydrate intake?

The glycemic index doesn't do that.

It indicates which foods give a quicker lift to the blood glucose
levels in diabetics. It is important for these folk to keep their
impaired glucose control in check, so attacking the problem at both
ends, they should limit the fast glucose absorption foods, and then
lower it when it occurs with the drug regimen they have been
prescribed.

Non sequitur.

Plus, the glycemic index does not indicate "which foods give a quicker lift
to the blood glucose levels in diabetics."

The glycemic index measures the area under the blood glucose curve above
baseline over a standard period of time (usually between 2 and 3 hours) a
WEIGHT of food containing 50g of carbohydrate produces. The weight of food
can vary from 50g to several hundred g. Foods with carbohydrate content too
low to allow consumption of 50 g of carbohydrate cannot be tested.

The glycemic LOAD comes closer to doing what you say the glycemic index
does.

Ron Peterson asked if the glycemic index "tries to eliminate a spike
in carbohydrate intake."
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Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA jchinnis@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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