Hold back on the regular spaghetti: Your eyes will thank you
Categories: Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements
New research in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that eating too many simple carbs (like white bread, pasta, cakes and cookies) can raise blood glucose levels and play a role in the development of age-related macular degenerations, which can cause blindness. To make sure your vision stays rosy, replace simple carbs with complex carbs.Here's a few examples:
- Instead of white bread, choose mixed grain, whole wheat or rye bread.
- Stay away from pretzels and choose popcorn for the fiber.
- Brown or wild rice is always a better choice than white rice.
- My favorite, a baked sweet potato is better for many reasons ... don't go for the regular baked potato.
- Instead of rice cakes, choose whole wheat crackers -- there's a number of new products available these days.
- Instead of regular pasta, choose multigrain pasta ... once you get use to it, you'll appreciate the added flavor. And you'll wonder why they ever invented white pasta anyway.
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nikkicookers 11-27-2007 @ 12:47PM
I just sat down to eat my 2nd bagel of the day and saw this article... I believe I'll throw this in the trash now.
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Raina 11-27-2007 @ 1:31PM
I read a book on this very subject - The New Glucose Revolution, which basically lists out all the carbs and whether they're high or low glucose (and why). And one of the big points they made was that semolina pasta was not a high glucose carb. It wasn't necessarily low, but it wasn't the evil that everyone makes it out to be (if eaten in moderation).
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