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Starch blockers are great news for grazers and snackers - as long as the foods are from the lower end of the GI scale.

(The belief is to find and eat those foods which release their energy slowly, so the Glycaemic Index does not involve proteins or fats - diet which affect blood sugar levels more quickly than carbohydrates) .

Once you’ve mastered the GI theory - which is simply to eat foods that rank at 50 or below - you can introduce the GI path of eating at territory and, hopefully, bid goodbye to provisions rages, road rages, diet temper tantrums, squabbling and other signs of low blood sugar levels.

When Dad starts ranting in a traffic jam or minor Johnny starts stabbing the table with his straw in McDonalds, it’s not poor manners or a filthy temper to blame but a slump in blood sugar levels and a diet Food Rage.

All the ranked foods are carbohydrates since these are the main source of glucose (blood sugar) in the body.

Skimmed milk is ranked higher than complete fat milk as fats slow doen the release of sugars from it.

It’s also fascinating to notice that with this system, diet so-called health foods that taste like antiquated cardboard may not be as great for you as you think.

Hypoglycaemia, a condition - the symptoms of which involve frayed nerves, hunger pangs, fatigue, a short temper and feelings of pent up aggression - is called hypoglycaemia or low blood sugar if diet it persists.

The trouble is, if you eat or give the kids foods that release sugar very quickly, you may be setting up a cycle of blood sugar highs and lows which will carry on affecting behaviour and mood throughout the day.

Take rice cakes, that staple of the health diet guru cupboard.

According to GI eaters, it is also in a superior way to eat five smaller meals, at regular intervals and made up of foods ranked lower than 50 than to eat three big meals a day.

Thankfully, for most of us, eating will soon banish these symptoms diet by sending blood sugar levels back to the normal.

Scientists who started with a ranking of 100 for white bread, have nowadays assessed some 600 different foods according to the rate of their impact on blood sugar compared with this staple.

French fries are “ healthier” than brown rice and diet believe it or not, crisps at 54 business out healthier than high sugar dates, which rank a massive 99.

Rice has a high GI to give an instant energy hit and so according to the Index, a rice cake (ranking 77) is less healthy than a slice of sponge cake diet (ranking 47) .

Eat low GI foods such as vegetables to release sugar slowly and to maintain stable blood sugar levels.

This curbs appetite and hunger for dieters.

A similar study was carried out in the United States in December 2002.

In this study volunteers who were given Phase diet 2 to take before their high starch meals lost an average of 3.8 lbs over 8 weeks, this being an over 200% greater loss than those on a placebo.

They also lost an average of 1.5 inches from their waist measurements, this being a 43% greater loss than those on diet a placebo.

Another such study was conducted in Norway and published in September 2000.

This study used 40 obese volunteers and over 12 weeks the Phase 2 group achieved an average weight reduction of 3.5 kg (7.7 lbs) , this comparing to a loss of 1.2 kg (2.6 lbs) diet for the study´s placebo group.

In addition body composition measurements showed that more than 85% of the weight loss achieved by the Phase 2 users was fat loss.

A different kind of study measures the amount of starch being absorbed by volunteers taking Phase 2, rather than the eventual diet weight they may lose.

Such a study was carried out in the United States in September 2001 with volunteers taking 1500 mg of Phase 2 before eating starch and then having their blood glucose level monitored.

The result was that the glucose level of the volunteers over a period of diet 150 minutes after eating was on average 57% less than that of the placebo group.

This study was repeated in November 2001, with volunteers again taking 1500 mg of Phase 2 before eating starch.

This time their glucose level was on average 85% lower than the placebo group, meaning diet that only 15% of the glucose available from the food they had eaten had found its way into the body.

The glucose also peaked 15 minutes earlier and cleared from the blood about 30 minutes earlier than occurred with the placebo group.

A further study of this kind was diet conducted with volunteers being given Phase 2 when eating a typical full meal, rather than a high starch food alone.

The meal consisted of sirloin beef, mashed potatoes, mushrooms, beans, gravy and cherry-apple crumb cake.

The amount of Phase 2 given to the volunteers in this study was 750 mg diet and this was mixed into the mashed potatoes.

The result obtained from taking blood glucose levels was that starch absorption to the body had been reduced by an average of 28% when compared to the placebo group.

In addition to the above studies using human subjects, a study using diet rats has been conducted, published in March 2001.

This study tested the digestive system of the rats for activity of alpha amylase, the enzyme that breaks down starches, and concluded that administering Phase 2 to the