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Follow the links below to find information on the benefits and role of carbohydrates in the diet.
Reviewed June 2009
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Insulin: how it works - myDr.com.au
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myDr
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| Description: |
The hormone insulin is released when you have just eaten a meal and the level of glucose in your blood is high.
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Sep 2009
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| Title: |
Fuel for your body
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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| Description: |
Your body is like a wonderful machine. First of all it builds itself in your mothers womb. It works hard on growing bigger and stronger.
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| Date: |
Jun 2009
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Food - eating and sport
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Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
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| Description: |
You need to provide your body with the right sort of fuel if you are exercising regularly and training for your sport. What you need to eat.
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| Date: |
Jun 2009
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| Title: |
Sporting performance and food
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Better Health Channel
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| Description: |
Good diet and nutrition can enhance sporting performance. Carbohydrates should form the basis of a sports person's diet. A high protein diet is not generally needed or recommended, since it can hinder performance, impair kidney function and compromise bone integrity. Dietary protein or amino acid supplements are not likely to provide any benefit. Water is the best sports drink.
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| Date: |
Jul 2008
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| Title: |
Weight loss and carbohydrates
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| Publisher: |
Better Health Channel
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| Description: |
Low carbohydrate (low carb) diets are popular for weight loss but they may be dangerous. Carbohydrates are the only fuel source for many vital organs, including the brain, central nervous system and kidneys. A diet high in protein and fats can lead to obesity and obesity-related disorders such as heart disease.
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| Date: |
Jun 2008
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| Title: |
Low carbohydrate diets
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Dietitians Association of Australia
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| Description: |
It is important to consider that not all "low carbohydrate diets" are the same. These diets vary greatly in quality and how much carbohydrate, protein and fat they contain. It is important to ensure that the diet information you are getting comes from a credible source.
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| Date: |
Jan 2008
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| Title: |
Betamimetics for suspected impaired fetal growth
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
Too little evidence to show whether betamimetic drugs for women during pregnancy benefits unborn babies who are smaller than expected....
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| Date: |
Oct 2007
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| Title: |
Resistant starch
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| Publisher: |
Healthy Eating Club
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| Description: |
Resistant starch and weight loss
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| Date: |
Jun 2005
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| Title: |
Ketogenic diet for epilepsy
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
No evidence from randomized controlled trials to support ketogenic diets, but observational studies do lend some support for a beneficial effect....
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| Date: |
Mar 2005
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| Title: |
Achieving an adequate diet - myDr.com.au
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| Publisher: |
myDr
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| Description: |
Tiredness, lack of energy, irritability, difficulty in concentrating and excessively dry skin may be due to an inadequate diet.
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| Date: |
Oct 2004
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| Title: |
weight loss diets: low, moderate or high carbohydrate?
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| Publisher: |
Healthy Eating Club
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| Description: |
This article presents the evidence that low carbohydrate diets are not effective in long term weight loss, and are associated with a number of detrimental effects on health.
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| Date: |
Apr 2004
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| Title: |
High protein low carbohydrate diets for weight loss
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| Publisher: |
Healthy Eating Club
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| Description: |
There are a number of weight loss diets that are currently gaining notoriety for their deviation from the widely recommended low fat-high carbohydrate eating regimen.There is concern that people adopting these diets in the pursuit of weight loss are damaging both their short and long term health.
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| Date: |
Oct 2003
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| Title: |
Nuts in a healthy diet - myDr.com.au
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| Publisher: |
myDr
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| Description: |
Nuts are high in protein, carbohydrates and fibre as well as containing many vitamins and minerals.
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| Date: |
May 2002
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| Title: |
Carbohydrate supplementation of human milk to promote growth in preterm infants
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| Publisher: |
John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
No evidence to show the effect of adding carbohydrate to breast milk to promote growth in babies born preterm. Breast milk is the best source of nutrition for full-term babies for at least the first six months of life. Babies born preterm (before 37 wee...
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| Date: |
Apr 2002
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| Title: |
Weight loss
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| Publisher: |
Healthy Eating Club
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| Description: |
London University's Professor Tom Sanders and author of a book 'You Don't have to Diet' has highlighted that the greatest of all myths is that 'thin people are necessarily healthier than fat people'.
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| Date: |
Mar 2001
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| Title: |
Glucose tolerance test
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Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
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| Description: |
Directions on what to eat and drink before taking a glucose tolerance test are given.
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| Date: |
Jun 1995
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