Nurtitional scientist Tim Spector has advised people to make a simple swap on an everyday food item which can have a big impact on health. The professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and founder of the Zoe health app, said that people who have pasta and rice regularly should make a change. He explained that it will help blood sugar levels and also help gut microbes - meaning that inflammation would be reduced too.
Prof Spector told the Zoe podcast: “My favourite Zoe swaps that I’ve learned in the last few years since testing that my blood sugar and I used to eat a lot of regular pasta. I’ve now swapped that for either whole grain and sometimes to things like lentil pastas or chickpea pastas, because they’re producing much less of a sugar spike for me and they’re higher in fibre, and that’s helpful for my gut microbes. “So I’ve really made that switch, which I find very easy and still super tasty.
The other thing that I’ve done is pretty much reduced way down my consumption of white rice. I still like it occasionally, but I found that brown rice isn’t that much better for me. And so I wherever I can.
I’ve made the swap to go to other grains, and if you can get a mix of grains, that’s even better. They all have much higher levels of both protein and fibre than anything that rice can offer, and that diversity is really important.” And Prof Spector said the swap-outs also contain polyphenols which are antioxidants that help feed your.