On a morning in Sanlitun, Beijing, 32-year-old office worker Zhang Yuan scoops up a spoonful of low-GI (glycemic index) oat yogurt at a trendy cafe. She has made a habit of choosing slowly digesting, ...

A study by Universitat Rovira i Virgili finds that prioritizing low glycemic index foods, including most fruits and whole grains, may lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

When you're at the mercy of blood sugar swings, you feel happy and full of energy one moment and then brain-foggy, exhausted and cranky the next. And if you have chronically high blood sugar due to ...

Pasta consumed in the context of a low-glycemic index (GI) diet does not contribute to weight gain and does result in modest weight loss compared with a higher-GI diet, at least over a median ...

Many people reach for foods that provide comfort, convenience or quick energy, often without thinking about how rapidly those foods raise blood sugar. While high glycaemic index items are usually ...

Healthy dietary patterns reduce GI cancer risk and mortality, while unhealthy patterns increase risk, particularly for colorectal and liver cancers. PCA-derived dietary patterns show stronger ...

The glycemic index (GI) is a nutritional tool that helps measure how quickly the carbohydrates in a particular food affect an individual’s blood sugar levels. 1 As per the GI values, foods are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a Healio video exclusive, Edward V. Loftus Jr., MD, highlighted the growing recognition that diet, ...

More than 1 in 5 of new gastrointestinal (GI) cancer cases globally were attributable to suboptimal dietary intake, according to a recent study. Writing in Gastroenterology, researchers led by Li Liu, ...