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anyone using a good gi index book?

Blondie153

Blondie153

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Hi, has anyone been recommended a good book that they have used which lists gi foods and how they affect each other? Would be very helpful to avoid the hypos after the large pasta intake. Many thanks
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I use an app on my phone.

Main problem with books and apps is that they are based on american foods not british.
 
Hi, I use the carbs and calls book. I have just gone on a pump and the book is great for calculating how much insulin to give. It's very accurate as long as you get the weight right. It's also available as an app. My dietitian recommended it. Hope it helps.

It's call carbs and calls - a visual guide to carb and calorie counting for people with diabetes.


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Hi, thanks for that. We have the carbs and cals book. I was wondering if anyone had used a book that listed the gi of foods so I could see which worked with which. You know how sometimes you give a big bowl of pasta the carb content is high the insulin is a large amount and then the pasta is low gi so she then has a hypo because the insulin works faster than the pasta. If you eat certain high gi or med gi you can counter balance this and I was looking for a book that could tell me the gi content to do this. I have been on amazon but as you said it can be quite American so I was looking for a uk version.
 
I don't know of a good book.
A list of all the 'officially' tested foods as of 2008, about 2,500 of them, is on David Mendosa's site (this info comes from an academic paper produced by the researchers at Sydney University.
You could print that out
http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm
Otherwise there is a database on the GI site. If you click on an individual entry on the database you can find more info such as the date tested(some of the older tests used methods that wouldn't be used today), where it was tested , how many subjects and whether they were diabetic or 'normal')
There are a few specifically British foods ( eg some from Tescos and Sainsburys ) but not that many.
http://www.glycemicindex.com/

Lastly there is series of GI tables for typical foods from different European cuisines including that from the UK on the Diogenes trial website. It is in excel format.
You have to be a bit careful to check the confidence code because some of the foods haven't been tested and have been assigned a nominal GI

values were assigned according to five decreasing levels of confidence:
1.Measured values for specific foods
2.Published values from published sources
3.Equivalent values where published values for similar foods existed
4.Estimated values three values selected representing low/medium/high GI
5.Nominal values assigned as 70, where no other value could be assigned with sufficient confidence


http://www.mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk/research/g ... -and-files
 
I have a good book called The Low GI Life Plan which explains all about foods on a low gi diet. There's a table at the back of the book which lists most everyday foods and its GI factor, I think I got mine from Amazon but any good book shop should be able to order you a copy.
 
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