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Is there any reason to moderate sugar intake, then, on the glycemic basis?

April 26, 2017basis Glycemic intake sugar

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Is there any reason to moderate sugar intake, then, on the glycemic basis?

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DR. PI-SUYNER: Not on the glycemic basis. There’s other reasons, which you’ve heard about, you know. So-called empty calories and the fact that you’re getting no vitamins and minerals when you’re eating the sugar and so forth. So, personally, I think 18 percent sugar intake is very high in this country and it contributes very significantly to the caloric load that we’re eating. So, I personally thing for other reasons, cutting back on sugar is probably a good thing, but not from a glycemic index approach, since it’s a low glycemic index food. DR. GRUNDY: Okay, second question was, you through up that one hypothesis about the insulin exhaustion theory from overstimulation, whether it be from excess calories or whatever it’s from. Do you think that’s a valid hypothesis, or what’s your view on that? DR. PI-SUYNER: Well, I think insulin demand as a stimulus to the bringing on of diabetes is a perfectly valid hypothesis. I think you have to have the right genes, you know. We have obese peop