With India becoming a busier nation with an increasing number of people joining the working population across metros, they have adopted the culture of quick snacking and calorie-rich, ready-to-eat ...

Low-glycemic foods, such as sweet potatoes, rolled oats, chickpeas, and milk, are slower to raise a person’s blood sugar levels than foods with moderate or high scores on the glycemic index (GI). A ...

Eating a meal with a low GI (glycemic index) increases gut hormone production which leads to suppression of appetite and the feeling of fullness. Researchers studied the effects of a low versus high ...

The glycemic index is a scale that ranks the number of carbohydrates in foods from zero to 100, indicating how quickly a food causes a person’s blood sugar to rise. Foods high on the glycemic index ...

Exercise performed shortly before (that is, within half a day of) a high-fat meal is beneficial for stimulating fat oxidation after the meal and reducing postprandial triglycerides (TG). This benefit ...

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 ...

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, ...