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You know low GI works. Here's how to live it with more ease.
You could probably recite the basics in your sleep by now. Sweet potato beats white rice. Pair the carb with protein. What nobody explains is how to make it fit a real Tuesday — so here is that part.
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You know low GI works. Here's how to live it with more ease.
Sweet potato beats white rice. Pair the carb with protein. Now the part nobody writes down.
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Why you can trust what you read here
Everything here is written by one person, from clinical practice rather than from a content brief. Here is exactly how each piece gets made.
Written by a practitioner
Jen is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach who has worked with clients on blood sugar since 2011, and has followed the low glycemic way herself since 2013.
Sourced where it counts
Claims about what low glycemic eating does are linked to published trials and reviews — including Cochrane, the BMJ and the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Education, not medical advice
This is food and lifestyle guidance meant to work alongside your doctor’s care, never instead of it. Keep your prescriber in the loop on anything you change.
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Browse all reviews →Things we keep on our own shelf. When something stops earning its place, it comes off this page.
Steel-cut oats, five pounds
GI 55 — the lowest-GI form of the grain, and the cheapest per bowl.
Fourteen-day glucose sensor
No prescription. The fastest way to stop guessing how your own body answers a meal.
Allulose, granulated
GI 0 — measures, browns and caramelizes like sugar without moving blood glucose.
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