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Women Who Eat Foods With High Glycemic Index Are at Greater Risk For Heart Disease
Consuming carbohydrates with high glycemic index, an indicator of how quickly a food affects blood glucose levels, appears to be associated with the risk of coronary heart disease in women but not men, according to a report in the April 2010 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine: JAMA/Archives journals.
High-carbohydrate diets increase the levels of blood glucose and of harmful blood fats known as triglycerides while reducing levels of protective HDL or
Recently, a research team from Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy, studied 47,749 Italian adults (15,171 men and 32,578 women)