"GI diet" news and stories

Just about any diet will work if you stick to it, even if your diet consists of eating only banana bread. The problem with diets is that people do not stick to diets and even if you love banana bread, there are so many other good things to eat out there that it would just be too boring. Not to mention, of course, that very restrictive diets are not usually the healthiest ones.

Forbes has worked out their list of the top 10 diets that work. They correctly point out that restriction is the reason that many diets fail. Because most people will only have enough willpower (or interest) to stick to a diet for a short time, a very restrictive diet will produce maximum results quickly and is more likely to be selected by someone looking to lose weight. This is not the right way to lose weight. Diets are also a multi-billion dollar business, so there is a question as to whether the originators of some diets actually want people who try them to maintain their weight loss.

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Rhubarb Renaissance? It is back in fashion is rhubarb.

The giant leaves may be poisonous but those beguiling red stems are just do good for you; although perhaps not when served with lashings of cream as in my Rhubarb Fool pictured! Rhubarb stems are low in carbohydrates but high in vitamin C, calcium, dietary fiber and potassium. It features highly in GI diet books due to those low carbs. Supermarkets in the UK have seen a surge in sales this year with sales in January 100 per cent over last year.

It use to be more popular than strawberries and is first recorded in China in 2700BC. There is a collection of recipes at (the very old looking) RhubarbInfo website and plenty more seen via a Rhubarb Recipe search on Technorati or try just Rhubarb. Any favourites I should try?