Month: September 2010

Now, we all know that we are supposed to get 5 portions of fruit and veg a day, and I would bet that most people either don’t manage to eat this or just eat several portions of fruit a day to make up for the shortfall in vegetables. We are led to believe that fruit … Read more

So, this week we’ve talked about how saturated fat may not be the evil fat that is portrayed by the media and conventional medicine, but how trans fat are; and we have also talked about how margarine (that often times contains trans fats) is not heart healthy as it is portrayed and that using butter … Read more

Another food that gets touted as heart healthy is margarine. It’s claimed that margarine is a healthy alternative to butter – as butter is full of the heart damaging saturated fat that raises cholesterol (however remember my blog post earlier this week that dispels the myth that saturated fat contributes to heart disease) and margarine … Read more

This week I’m going to discuss some common misconceptions concerning healthy eating – I’m going to talk about saturated fat, red meat consumption, margarine, fruit consumption and fruit juice. Current dietary wisdom would have us believe that saturated fat and red meat are bad for us and things like margarine, fruit and fruit juice are good … Read more

So you can see from the tables and classifications of carbohydrates it is sensible to eat low GL foods for the majority of the time, the book – The Low GL Diet, by Patrick Holford explains all you need to know. But I want to finish this piece with a little bit of contention. The … Read more

To solve the problems of the GI, researchers came up the Glycemic load (GL) ranking system. This is based on how quickly the carbohydrate in a food releases its carbohydrate into the blood stream (The GI) and the amount of carbohydrate in a portion of that particular food. So the GL takes in to account … Read more