Glycemic Index

Dietary confusion abounds - no matter who you listen to. Just last week I received a brochure from my local doctors. The brochure praised the benefits of a Low GI (Glycemic Index) diet. According to their advice a low-GI diet meant eating certain carbohydrates - but also eating low-fat foods.

Remember Rosemary Conley's Hip and Thigh Diet? It was enormously popular in the UK.

Then came the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet.

Then Rosemary moved on to the GI Jeans Diet.

And now she has just released the Ultimate GI Jeans Diet.

Research shows that women who eat a high-GI (glycemic index) diet have a higher risk of developing vision problems than those who eat low GI carbohydrates.

The Glycemic Load Diet, by Rob Thompson MD is essentially a low carbohydrate diet. Thompson has applied more recent research in order to further refine or improve previous low-carb diets.

Over the past year the GI (Glycemic Index) has become increasingly popular in the US. However there is a tendency to put too much emphasis on the GI as the answer to weight loss. It is useful, but it is just a part of the puzzle.

There are a number of diets based on the GI - such as Rick Gallop's "The GI Diet", and eDiets' Glycemic Impact Diet.