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You can enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods.
For overall good health and wellbeing, choose lower GI foods and follow these Dietary Guidelines

Using the GI Guide, Managing Carbohydrate Intake is really simple Dietary Guidelines

• Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods
• Eat plenty of vegetables, legumes and fruits
• Eat plenty of cereals (including breads, rice, pasta and noodles), preferably wholegrain
• Include lean meat, fish, poultry and/or alternatives
• Include milks, yoghurts, cheeses and/or alternatives. Reduced-fat varieties should be chosen, where possible
• Drink plenty of water
• Limit saturated fat and moderate total fat intake
• Choose foods low in salt
• Limit your alcohol intake if you choose to drink
• Consume only moderate amounts of added sugars

Should I avoid all high GI foods?

No. Some high GI foods like most potatoes and brown rice are still highly nutritious.

Simply eat them in smaller quantities, combined with a lower GI carbohydrate.

High GI foods are also useful during prolonged physical activity or when treating hypoglycaemia in people with diabetes.

What about sugar?

Not all sugars are the same. Many foods naturally high in sugar are highly nutritious like fruit, milk and yoghurt. Unfortunately food labels don’t help us to distinguish between the slowly absorbed and rapidly absorbed sugars or tell us whether the sugars are naturally occurring or added.

It is therefore best to ignore the sugar content of a food and instead
focus on the food’s GI.