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 What and when to eat if you're hypoglycaemic

 What is the difference between the Glycaemic Index and the Glycaemic load?

 What is metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance/Syndrome x?

 How do I know if I'm insulin resistant?

 Which supplements are recommended for insulin resistance

 What is Type 2 Diabetes?

 What are the risk factors for developing Type 2?

 What are the signs and symptoms of Type 2?

 Is stress related to Type 2?

 What is Type 1 Diabetes?

 What is Gestational Diabetes?

 What is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)?

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Glycaemic Index of foods

LOW
less than 55
Choose most often

MEDIUM
56 - 59
Choose more often

HIGH
70 or more
Choose less often

 Cereals

AllBran, Fruit 'n oats, Toasted muesli*, Frosties, rolled oats, porridge, Guardian, oat bran, Komplete oven baked muesli, oat/rice bran, Special K

Special K, untoasted muesli, Bran Buds, Just Right, Mini Wheats, Vitabrits, Nutrigrain, Sustain, Weetbix, Honey Smacks, untoasted muesli, shredded wheat

Cornflakes, Sultana Bran, Branflakes, Cocopops, Puffed Wheat, Rice Bubbles, Rice Chex, Wheat bites, Breakfast bars,
Oat in honey bake, Team, Total, wheat bites, corn bran

Breads

Burgen Oat bran bread (31) or multigrain bread or soy-linseed bread (19) or fruit bread, kibbled barley, Holsom's wholemeal, 9 grain mutigrain, fruit loaf, pumpernickel, sourdough rye, stoneground wholemeal, Ploughman's loaf, Vogel Honey & Oat.

Pita bread, croissant*, crumpet, white bread, hamburger bun, light rye bread, sourdough, rye, wholemeal bread, pizza.

White, Bagels, waffles Wonderwhite, Dark Rye bread, French baguette, melba toast, Gluten-free bread.

 Crackers/Crispbreads/Biscuits/Cakes

Jatz*, oatmeal, rich tea biscuits, banana cake, pound cake, apple muffin,
sponge cake.

Ryvita, Saos, Jatz, Breton wheat, stoned wheat thins, digestives,oatmeal, milk arrowroot, shredded wheatmeals, shortbread, flans, angel food cake* muesli bars with fruit, bran muffins, Blueberry muffin,
flaky pastry.

Kavli, water crackers, rice cakes, pretzels, crackerbread, puffed crispbread, morning coffee, vanilla wafer, donuts (cinnamon).

Grains/Pasta

Wheat pasta, noodles, egg fettucine, vermicelli, meat ravioli, macaroni, tortellini, spaghetti, long grain white rice, pearl barley, buckwheat, bulgur, semolina, cracked wheat, popcorn.

Buckwheat, brown rice, Doongara, Basmati rice, taco shells, gnocchi, couscous, maize cornmeal, macaroni cheese (packet).

Sunbrown quick rice, Calrose shortgrain rice, Instant cooked, tapioca, Corn chips, millet, rice pasta.

Legumes/nuts

Soya beans, kidney beans, lentils, butter beans, chick peas, haricot beans, lentils, baked beans, bengal gram, blackeyed beans
all nuts

Green gram dahl, green pea soup, split pea soup.

Broad beans, lima beans, pinto beans.

Vegetables

Green peas, sweet corn, sweet potato, carrots.
potato crisps*

New canned potatoes, new potatoes, beetroot.

French fries*, baked potatoes, pumpkin, parsnip, potatoes (Pontiac, Sebago, Desiree, instant).

Fruit

Cherries, plums, grapefruit, peaches, apples, pears, dried apricots, grapes, kiwi fruit, oranges, jam.

Mango, paw paw, sultanas, bananas (just ripe), raisins, rockmelon, pineapple, fresh apricots,
canned fruit in syrup.

watermelon, very ripe "medium fruits".
dates

Dairy Foods

Whole milk, skim milk, chocolate milk, low fat flavoured yoghurt, artificially sweetened yoghurt, low fat ice-cream*, custard, soy milk

Icecream (full fat).

Tofu frozen dessert
Vitari frozen fruit

Sugars

Fructose (fruit sugar).
Nutella

Lactose (milk sugar), Sucrose, honey.

Glucose, Glucodin, jellybeans, lifesavers, maltose.

 Beverages

Apple juice, grapefruit juice, orange juice, Sustagen.

Cordial, Fanta.

Lucozade, Gatorade, Sports Plus.

* These foods have a high fat content and should be eaten only occasionally


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