Complete Meals & GI (Non-)Sense, Glutamine & GLP-1, Low Thyroid & High Trigs, N-3 vs. N-6 Interactions, Optimal DHA Dosage in Kids W/ NAFLD, Selenium vs. Aluminum Toxicity
While this is not the exact combination of chicken breast, mashed potatoes and salad in the first one of today's news items, it's more than likely that the predicted GI (and thus probably what you would find if you looked it up in a table) overestimates the postprandial glucose response to this meal by ~50% and says absolutely nothing about the insulin response. It looks like complex meals and over-simplified theories, don't mix well, at all ;-) 78% that's the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and actually part of the additional information I provided on one of today's On Short Notice items. It's the increase in coronary heart disease risk women with subclinical hypothyroidism have compared to their peers with spot on TSH levels of 0.5-1.5mU/L (Asvold. 2012). In conjunction with other more or less recent studies, such as Mitchel's, Hsu's and Sahai's paper confirming the previously often talked about but not well-established 2-fold increase in con...
