Health & Nutrition

The following are practical tips to make the switch to low-GI eating. There's no specific order. Essentially, you should attack the changes that you'll find easiest first-nothing is inspiring as success.You should make the changes gradually-it can take 6 week for a new behaviour to become a habit. Here's how you can get started :

1) Aim to eat at least 5 serves of vegetables every day, preferably of 3 or more colours. Make sure you fill half your dinner plate with vegetables.

2) Cut back on potatoes. Have one or two tiny chat potatoes or a Nicola potato or make cannellini bean and potato mash replacing half the potato with cannelling beans. Try other lower GI starchy vegatables for a changes, such as a piese of a small cob of sweet corn.

3) Start the day with smart carbs like natural muesli or traditional (not instant) porridge oats or one of the lower GI procesed breakfast cereals that will trickle fuel into your engine.

4) Choose a really grainy bread where you can actually see the grains, or real sourdough bread ,or a soy and linseed bread. Look for the GI Syambol on the breads you buy.

5) Look for the lower GI rices (basmati,Doongara Clever rice or Moolgiri), and choose less processed foods or low-GI whole grains such as pearl barley, buckwheat,burghul,quinoa, whole kernel rye or whole wheat kernels.

6) Incorporate a lean protein source with every meal- lean meat, skinless chicken, eggs, fish, and seafood, or legumens and tofu if you are veetarian.

7) Learn to love legumes and eat them often. Add red kidney beans to a chilli,chickpeas to a stir-fry, a 4 bean salad to a barbecue and beans or lentils to a casserole or soup.

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