Carbohydrate Nutrition News


September 6, 2004 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Carbohydrates for Exercises

An important goal of the athlete's everyday diet is to provide the muscle with substrates to fuel the training programme that will achieve optimal adaptation for performance enhancements....

August 20, 2004 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Role of parents in the determination of the food preferences of children and the development of obesity

The role of parental behaviour in the development of food preferences is considered. Food preferences develop from genetically determined predispositions to like sweet and salty flavours and to dislike bitter and sour tastes....

July 2, 2004 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Glycaemic Index: Relevance for health, recommendations and food labelling

The glycaemic index (GI) concept is based on the difference in blood glucose response after ingestion of the same amount of carbohydrates from different foods, and possible implications of these differences for health, performance and well-being....

June 3, 2004 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Liquid calories and the failure of satiety: how good is the evidence?

Increasing rates of obesity and overweight have been attributed to the growing proportion of dietary energy that is consumed in liquid form....

May 3, 2004 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Position of the American Dietetic Association: Use of nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners

Sweeteners elicit pleasurable sensations with (nutritive) or without (nonnutritive) energy. Nutritive sweeteners (eg, sucrose, fructose) are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), yet concern exists about increasing sweetener intakes relative to optimal nutrition and health....

April 2, 2004 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

New Resources 2004

The Canadian Sugar Institute (CSI) Nutrition Information Service is pleased to provide you with the latest edition of our annual health professional newsletter, Carbohydrate News, and an additional health professional resource, Carbohydrates, Sugars and the New Food Label....

January 2, 2004 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Dietary Guidelines: Past Experiences and New Approaches

Statement of the American Dietary Association: Nutrition Recommendations for the Treatment and Prevention of Diabetes...

December 1, 2003 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Canadian Diabetes Association 2003 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Canada

The 1998 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Diabetes in Canada, developed by the Clinical & Scientific Section of the Canadian Diabetes Association, were the first comprehensive, evidence-based, clinical practice guidelines for diabetes care that allowed readers to independently judge the value of the diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic recommendations....

November 6, 2003 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

International Symposium on Glycemic Carbohydrate and Health

In 1998, the International Life Sciences Institute Japan (ILSI Japan) received a three-year research grant to initiate research on the medical and nutritional aspects of sugars....

October 3, 2003 - Carbohydrate Nutrition News

Sugars and Health Workshop

The Carbohydrates Technical Committee of the International Life Sciences Institute North America (ILSI NA) convened and sponsored a scientific workshop addressing the latest scientific issues relating to sugar and health, which was held September 18-20, 2002, In Washington, DC....