Ice cream esteem

TWENTY‐YEAR‐OLD research in the US has linked dairy‐based desserts like ice‐cream to heavily reduced chances of developing insulin‐resis‐tance syndrome. This is a precursor to dia‐ betes in overweight people, but although ice cream has a lower glycaemic index than super ‐ healthy brown rice, doctors in the UK have given the recently resuscitated find‐ings an icy reception.

“It may contain some nutri‐ents which could be benefi‐cial, like calcium, and it has a low glycaemic index,” said Dr Duane Mellor, a senior lectur‐er and dietitian at Aston Med‐ical School.

“But this is likely to be out‐weighed by its sugar and calo‐rie content,” he added.