How Women Can Stay Slim: Eat Foods with a Low Glycemic Index

No, it’s not a certainty, but eating foods with a low glycemic index appears to help keep women slim. The Scientific American reports on research conducted at Copenhagen University Hospital, where scientists found that normal-weight women who ate a diet with a
relatively high glycemic index gained more weight, more fat,
and more padding around the middle over a six-year period than
women who ate a low glycemic index diet.
The researchers, who studied 376 normal-weight men and women ages 35 to 65 years and followed-up with them six years later, found that
a high glycemic index diet correlated with greater waist circumference, body weight, and percentage of
body fat in women. Sciam reports that the effect was
strongest among inactive women. It also repoorts that, curiously, glycemic index had none of
these effects on men.
Glycemic index is a measure of how quickly a food causes
blood sugar, or "glucose," to rise. Generally, foods with
refined sugars and simple starches, like candy and white bread,
have a high glycemic index, while those with more complex
carbohydrates and greater fiber content, such as vegetables and
whole grains, have a low glycemic index.
Read more in the Scientific American.