{"id":45,"date":"2007-10-13T03:08:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T08:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/high-glycemic-index-diet-boosts-disease-risk\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T03:08:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T08:08:55","slug":"high-glycemic-index-diet-boosts-disease-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/high-glycemic-index-diet-boosts-disease-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"High Glycemic Index Diet Boosts Disease Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Glycemic_Index\/\" title=\"Glycemic Index\">glycemic index<\/a> is an effective way of evaluating your eating habits. The GI refers to how a particular food&#8217;s carbohydrate affects your blood sugar level. This will not only have a say in your weight, but your energy levels and, proponents will say, your susceptibility to certain diseases.<\/p>\n<p>A new study reaffirms the disease risk.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by Dr. David S. Ludwig and his colleagues from Children&#8217;s Hospital Boston, asserts that people who eat lots of high GI foods not only risk weight gain, they also run the risk of developing a condition that can lead to liver failure and death. The condition is known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).<\/p>\n<p>If you are new to the GI way of thinking, high-GI foods include white bread, white rice and potatoes. Low-GI foods include most fruits, lentils, soybeans, yogurt and many high-fiber grains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The glycemic index is an effective way of evaluating your eating habits. The GI refers to how a particular food&#8217;s carbohydrate affects your blood sugar level. This will not only have a say in your weight, but your energy levels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/high-glycemic-index-diet-boosts-disease-risk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687,3695],"tags":[2123,6117,6115,1851,601,31],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-boston","tag-disease-risk","tag-dr-david-s-ludwig","tag-gi-diet","tag-glycemic-index","tag-health-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}