An equipment made for UQ researchers will find out how to manufacture food that's better, healthy-wise as well as tastes good. Professor Bob Gilbert, a UQ researcher said that unhealthy lifestyle is an important factor in the obesity and diabetes epidemics in Australia but is not entirely responsible for the epidemic.
Professor Gilbert said that a significant part of the problem is the change in the starch contained in the food we eat. Starch provides 50% of food energy in Australia and up to 90% on Asian diets. It is therefore helpful to find out what starches are good for us.
There is a new equipment made in Germany for the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia that will help do this by measuring the starch structure. This will it make it possible to put the data in a significant framework.
This will enable the researchers to make sense of this information. The new techniques developed by the Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences at University of Queensland will supply the necessary tools to produce foods that are both healthy and tasteful.
There are some precautionary measures for those who have gestationaldiabetes.
The nutrition therapy for these women is not designed to lose weight but rather it is to eat the right food in the right amount and at the right time in order to manage the blood sugar level.
Exercising will also help lower the blood glucose level. There is really no excuse not to exercise. Many can swim, walk and just be active. This will limit the weight gain during pregnancy especially if one is obese before. Moderate exercise is possible.
The most crucial trigger of diabetes is obesity. How do they define obesity? It is having a mass index of 30 or greater. Mind you, genetics may play a role in becoming obese also. Is it any surprise that genetics may play a role in causing type 2 diabetes? And so, this new study on starch can go a long way in helping us get the nutritious way of eating.
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