Lowering type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease

GI Diet :: Lowering type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease

Several lines of recent scientific evidence have shown that individuals that followed a low GI diet over many years were at a significantly lower risk for developing both type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease.

High blood glucose levels or repeated glycemic "spikes" following a meal may promote these diseases by increasing oxidative damage to the vasculature and also by the direct increase in insulin levels (Temelkova-Kurktschiev et al, 2000). In the past, postmeal hyperglycemia has been a risk factor mainly associated with diabetes, however more recent evidence shows that postprandial hyperglycemia presents an increased risk for atherosclerosis in the non-diabetic population (Balkau et al, 1998).


(GI Diet :: Lowering type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease published at SpiritIndia on Monday, August 8, 2005)

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