Impact of foods with low GL on health (Review)

Abstract

The goal of this paper was to evaluate the impact of low GL diet and low GI foods on health. Cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and obesity are the most common diseases of lifestyle. They can be prevented or can be lowered by modifications in diet with low GI/GL foods and changes in lifestyle. GL may be an useful nutritional tool because low-GL diets induce satiety, improve diabetes control, positively influence lipid profile, reduce the risk of heart disease. Therefore, low-GI/GL diets are recommended in diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, some tipe of cancers.