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GI resource

jim1951

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I want to try to formulate my future eating plans and am looking for a fairly complete GI list, does one exist?

I can find plenty of links that list a hundred or so items but there must be one that runs into the 000's?

Does anybody have such a link?

jim
 
Even better is a book called the Holford diet.
It lists GL not GI.
The L stands for load.
Instead of saying where on the GI index a chip is it tells you how many of those chips you can have.
Somewhere out there in Google world is a huge list of GL stuff so you don't have to pay twenty five quid for the books!
 


I have googled on and off for days but cannot find the huge list!

I will look at the book mentioned later.

jim
 
I used the magic word "database" i.e., GI database and came up with sites that even had excel spreadsheets so that you can play around until your heart is content....and your stomach!

jim
 
Nigel mentioned the University of Sydney:
this is the link, I cant't think of a bigger database
http://www.glycemicindex.com/
You can also get all the foods listed in it, as of 2008 (so a bit dated now) as appendices to this paper. (LINK Towards end)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2584181/
To be honest though most of us only use a limited number of foods, especially fresh foods. The lists have lots of manufactured foods but not necessarily made to the same recipes as in the UK. (eg special K is known to have different GIs according to country)
I think it's much better to take note of what lowers the GI of foods.
I think that this is a useful account
http://www.montignac.com/en/the-factors-that-modify-glycemic-indexes
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lots more reading to do!
 
That second link is a bit heavy going but read it all will read it again ... very good.
 
I use a book called GI & GL counter, £3.99 by dr Wynnie chan - Hamlyn. Lists 1,500 foods incl fat calories protein and carbs. I could not find a good list on the net.


Diagnosed T2 in sept 2013, BS levels 20+. BMI 22, age 58. Requested a GAD test in November, came back very high 2,000+, doc said I would be T1 within weeks, but presently still LADA. On a LcHf diet taking no insulin or medication, and striving to keep my BS readings one hour after meals under 7.8 in order to keep as many insulin making pancreas beta cells as possible for as long as I can.
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Ian, is the book based on UK or elsewhere?

jim
 
It is a uk book (printed in china). It says "nutrient information has been calculated using data from the UK food nutrient databank...."


Diagnosed T2 in sept 2013, BS levels 20+. BMI 22, age 58. Requested a GAD test in November, came back very high 2,000+, doc said I would be T1 within weeks, but presently still LADA. On a LcHf diet taking no insulin or medication, and striving to keep my BS readings as low as possible in order to keep as many insulin making pancreas beta cells as possible for as long as I can.
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