(Source: Reuters News, 12 March 2011)
The glycemic load repeatedly trumped the carb count in predicting the blood sugar and insulin rise after a meal. "It suggests that the methods used to assess carbs in persons with type 1 diabetes might benefit from some rethinking," said Dr. Edward J. Boyko, a diabetes expert at the University of Washington in Seattle who wasn't involved in the study.
But he said it wasn't certain the findings would hold up in people who aren't completely healthy. "In the U.S., 60 percent of people are overweight or obese so we don't know how the results would apply to them or to persons with diabetes," he told Reuters Health. Read more
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