GI Diet

[colinwants2bthin]

Ok I have to confess that I know little if anything about the GI diet. Am I right in assuming that some where along the line the philosophy of the GI bear’s some relationship to Atkins. I presume that the rungs on the Atkins ladder follow closely to the GI value of foods.

[Checkers]

Low GI and low carb a very closely related. If you go to atkins.com and look for the article called 'The Atkins Glycemic Ranking' you'll see he ranks the high fiber, low GI/GL foods as 'Eat Regularly' and the the higher GI/GL foods you eat much less often.

[FightingTheFight]

The South Beach Diet is a GI diet. Basically what it boils down to is eating low Gi veggies and foods.


I saw a commercial for Nutra system which claims to be a GI diet. Their commercial said, "Now you don't have to avoid all carbs, we will teach you ho w to determine between good carbs and bad carbs. Then it shows a picture of chocalate cake, and a lady saying,"Any diet that allows me to eat chocalate is the diet for me." I mean what in the world is wrong with these people!

[not2late]

Yes. Atkins is a type of low glycemic diet. The OWL rungs are arranged in the order of glycemic index effect (the lowest rungs are lower GI than the upper rungs).

In fact, most low carb diets are low glycemic because the glycemic index is based on the blood sugar response to foods. So carbs affect the blood sugar more than fats and proteins.

You'll hear people tout "low fat/low glycemic" diets as well. That's kind of bogus imo, because fat will decrease the glycemic index of any food. For example, a Mars bar has a lower glycemic index than a plain baked potato, because the fat in the Mars bar lowers its glycemic index. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any glycemic index readings for things like rice mixed with a tablespoon of butter or pasta with olive oil. It would be interesting to see how much the fat will decrease the glycemic index of a food.

[Checkers]

I've seen those commercials! People just don't want to face changing the way they eat!

[Empress Honeybee]

Re: GI Diet

Ok I have to confess that I know little if anything about the GI diet. Am I right in assuming that some where along the line the philosophy of the GI bear’s some relationship to Atkins. I presume that the rungs on the Atkins ladder follow closely to the GI value of foods.

I have both books and pretty much most of the green light foods in the GI Diet and the same as the allowed Induction foods in the Atkins diet. However the GI diet is a lower fat diet then Atkins. I do a combination of both that suits me fine.

[FightingTheFight]

These people make money off of other peoples ignorance.