Negating High GI's by eating with LOW GI

[rt567]

Hi

Possibly a silly question. I have looked for several days and getting mixed messages about negating the effects of a blanced diet of low, mid and a bit of high GI food.

Can you reap the benefit of eating boiled spuds by having greens and white meat/etc/etc?

Also, eating nuts in before or after a meal, do they help lower the GI level?

I love onions in my meat curries and can eat uncooked onions covered with vinger with my meat or veg curries, would that be a very low gi level and if i was to have a few chips, would the low GI negate the effect of chips.

sorry re all of these questions, but I have been reading here and other places and note many people have tried everything and certain things work for most and not all.

Lastly., lemon, a lot on processed fish, lemon from a plastic bottle, does it lower the GI level?

thank you

 

[glucosegirl]

Sorry, I can't answer your gi question. With regard to the nuts though, they are very high in fat(good fats). Fat slows the absorption of carbohydrate so this means that the carbs in your meal would not get into your blood as quickly if you ate nuts with your meals. Therefore making the meal "lower gi". Almonds seem to be particularly good. I copied this from another website:

Almond ingestion at mealtimes reduces post prandial glycemia and chronic ingestion reduces hemoglobin A1c in individuals with well controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus
Title:

Almond ingestion at mealtimes reduces post prandial glycemia and chronic ingestion reduces hemoglobin A1c in individuals with well controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus

Reference:

Cohen AS, Johnston CS. Almond ingestion at mealtimes reduces post prandial glycemia and chronic ingestion reduces hemoglobin A1c in individuals with well controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus. Metab Clin Exp 2011.

 

[rt567]

Sorry, I can't answer your gi question. With regard to the nuts though, they are very high in fat(good fats). Fat slows the absorption of carbohydrate so this means that the carbs in your meal would not get into your blood as quickly if you ate nuts with your meals. Therefore making the meal "lower gi". Almonds seem to be particularly good. I copied this from another website:

Almond ingestion at mealtimes reduces post prandial glycemia and chronic ingestion reduces hemoglobin A1c in individuals with well controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus
Title:

Almond ingestion at mealtimes reduces post prandial glycemia and chronic ingestion reduces hemoglobin A1c in individuals with well controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus

Reference:

Cohen AS, Johnston CS. Almond ingestion at mealtimes reduces post prandial glycemia and chronic ingestion reduces hemoglobin A1c in individuals with well controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus. Metab Clin Exp 2011.

Hiya

Much appreciated.

I was talking to family the other day, and they all came up with Almonds as being good.

Thank you again