I think most of the things I was going to say have been covered, but where people talk about the glycaemic index, it might be interesting to look at the insulin index of foods. This has only been calculated for a smallish number of foods yet (and measuring insulin is more expensive than measuring glucose and, notably, much harder to do at home -- which means you can't easily construct your own, personalised insulin index the way you theoretically could for a glycaemic index) but has some interesting bits in; sorry, I am using my phone and do not have the link to hand, will try to come back from a big computer.
I would also add that a lot of the animal studies are... not great? I mean, if we are testing stuff on mice who are obese because of a specific genetic mutation, it might not apply to humans (who can't be assumed to have that genetic mutation).
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I think most of the things I was going to say have been covered, but where people talk about the glycaemic index, it might be interesting to look at the insulin index of foods. This has only been calculated for a smallish number of foods yet (and measuring insulin is more expensive than measuring glucose and, notably, much harder to do at home -- which means you can't easily construct your own, personalised insulin index the way you theoretically could for a glycaemic index) but has some interesting bits in; sorry, I am using my phone and do not have the link to hand, will try to come back from a big computer.
I would also add that a lot of the animal studies are... not great? I mean, if we are testing stuff on mice who are obese because of a specific genetic mutation, it might not apply to humans (who can't be assumed to have that genetic mutation).