Eat Your Vegetables

Don't Play a Numbers Game, Experts Say, Just Eat Your Vegetables By MARY DUENWALD

...the gathering evidence in support of low-glycemic index eating has lent new validity to a bit of age-old nutritional wisdom: a healthy diet includes plenty of vegetables, fruits, legumes, whole grains and nuts, and relatively few sugary foods and drinks and refined starches.

...for the average person wishing to eat a lower index diet, it is best to ignore the index numbers and simply aim to eat less refined starches. "Just eat abundant quantities of fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts, and reduce your consumption of white bread, prepared breakfast cereals, white rice and potato products...

Danish researchers who tried to predict the glycemic index of entire breakfasts based on the glycemic index values of the carbohydrates in them were unsuccessful. The only way to predict the glycemic response prompted by the various breakfasts was to consider the total calories.

Don't forget to exercise.