Maybe somebody is not telling you the facts...

Something that we have observed at Ukmedix News is that fad diets come and go but good common sense healthy eating has been here for a long time, is still here, and it looks like is not going anywhere. In order to publicise books and to make money [the weight loss industry in the United States is worth almost $60 billion a year], new ideas for weight loss need to be dreamed up. To be honest we reckon it’s getting pretty ridiculous now as the colours on the books get brighter, the weight loss promises even bigger, and the simplicity of the diets increases.

The big buzz phrase of the last six months has been eating carbohydrates that are low in ‘glycemic load’ which apparently are much better than eating carbohydrates which have a high glycemic load. Books have been written on the subject, nutritionists all over the world have been commenting on it and it’s been all over the TV in America.  Yet despite all this buzz and millions of pounds spent promoting this so called easy to follow diet, an American study undertaken at Tufts University in Boston says that having done clinical research on high and low glycemic load diets they can conclude that there is absolutely no difference in the two.

It makes you think a little bit doesn’t it? Maybe somebody is not telling you the facts about what you must eat and what you shouldn’t eat. We have a rule at Ukmedix News which is that if a diet looks too good to be true then the chances are that it just is not going to deliver and it is just wishful thinking. This glycemic load diet claimed that the secret of eating carbohydrates was not to eat a certain carbohydrates and that if you ate the right sort of carbohydrates you would lose weight.

The study done at the University in Boston shows that people who at the same amount of calories whether they ate low or high glycemic load carbohydrates put on the same amount of weight. Another thing that we didn’t like about the glycemic load diet at Ukmedix News is that it is just simply too complicated and impractical for everyday life. You would be far better off eating less and making sure that you included a lot of fruits and veg in your diet, rather than trying to count calories and work out whether the carbs you are eating had a high or low glycemic load.

There appear to be some advantages in eating a low glycemic diet for diabetic people as the release of sugar into your bloodstream is slower with these carbs, but for someone with a normal and healthy metabolism there does not seem to be any real point.