People love their bananas. Ask anyone to grab a snack, and 9 times out of 10 theyll pull out a banana from their backpack and pocketbook. In fact bananas are the most popular fruit in the US with the average person consuming 25 pounds a year. They dont need any washing or refrigeration. They are high in fiber and potassium, and low in calories. What could be wrong with them? Depending on the ripeness and size, a banana can have a huge impact on blood sugar. That can be a good thing if you are running a marathon, but a bad thing if you are watching your blood sugars or tryingto lose weight. Bananas are not alone in spiking blood sugars; there are other foods high on the glycemic index scale that do the same thing.

Glycemic index (GI) is a scale used to measure the impact of a specific food on blood sugar. GI ranks foodin comparison to a food reference point, either glucose or white bread, which are both ranked at 100. The GI of a food tells you how quickly the sugar from the food will enter the blood stream. Eating low GIfoods have helped with weight loss as well as maintaining steady blood sugars in those with prediabetes or diabetes. Eating foods that keep blood sugars from spiking requires less insulin. A lower blood insulin level lessens the workload for the pancreas, preserving its function, and also helps with weight loss. Here are some examples of low, medium and high GIfoods:

Glycemin index is only part of the picture. To completely understand how much a food will impact blood sugar you also need to know how much sugar it will deliver. This is called the glycemic load. Glycemic load takes into consideration portion size.A glycemic load of 10 or below is considered low, while a glycemic load of 20 or more is considered high.

ripe bananas are sweeter but also have a much higher GI

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition maintains a list of glycemic index and glycemic load of over 750 commonfoods. The table below lists glycemic index, serving size based on grams, and glycemic loadof a ripe banana, a slightly under-ripe banana and an over-ripe banana with some brown spots. I could not find any information on a fully green banana, but you can safely assume it has an even lower GI than the slightly under ripe banana.

A study reported in Diabetic Medicine on the effect of banana ripeness on blood sugars in people with type 2 diabetes, revealed:

Green bananas contain more resistant starches. Resistant starches are starches that resist digestion in the small intestine. Resistant starches are fermented by our healthy gut microbes and help to produce vitamins and health-promoting compounds as well as destroy potential cancer causing toxins. Resistant starches also help to reduce blood sugars.

When fruits ripen the resistant starches convert to sugar which is why a ripe banana tastes sweeter and will raise blood sugars much more than a green banana.

This is where Glycemic Load comes into play. A small banana has 18.5 gms of carbs, while a 9 inch banana contains over 35 gms. When you consider serving size in addition to ripeness, you can easily see how blood sugars could really spike by eating a large ripe banana.

Diabetes.org discusses other factors that impact the GI of foods.

I remember my mother telling me that green bananas would give me a stomach ache. Part of that problem is from the fermentation process that occurs in the gut. People with a normal digestion and a healthy diet should not experience this problem. But people with irritable bowel syndrome or some other digestive problem, green bananas could cause gas and bloating.

For the rest of us, unless you are getting ready for a marathon, this is what you should do:

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Barbara Lynch is one of the most successful restaurateurs in the country: She owns seven businesses in Boston, and in 2014, won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurateur. To add to her accomplishments, shell publish her first memoir on April 11: Out of Line: A Life of Playing With Fire, chronicling her rise to success following a tough childhood in South Boston. This week, she spent some precious time at home before embarking on a book tour, making herself soup for breakfast, and going out for seafood at her favorite local spots. Read all about it in this weeks Grub Street Diet.

Friday, March 31For breakfast, I had a big glass of cranberry concentrate. I read somewhere that it flushes out fat, and I just got back from two weeks of eating a lot in Italy, so that seemed like a good idea. I also had a few cashews and a cup of tea.

For my second breakfast, I had quinoa, white beans, and carrots, with a poached egg in a broth with curry and cumin. I love soups for breakfast.

And then, for lunch, I had a Caesar salad. This was just a takeout salad, actually, from a deli across the street from my office.

That night, we had a gala for the opening of Eataly Terra, their new rooftop restaurant. Im collaborating with Eataly Boston on their seafood restaurant, Il Pesce. They put in front of us some pasta with charred tomatoes and capers. I had a few bites, a few pieces of grilled steak, a bite of a sausage, and that was that. The opening was great. I also had two glasses of wine.

I went to a friends house after, and they got takeout Thai food. I had three bites of that. Another glass of wine.

Saturday, April 1 Saturday morning, I had chicken and roasted broccoli on top of white rice, with Indian spices and mushroom sauce. My new daughter-in-law made it at home. Shes from Nepal, so she cooks a lot of vegetarian food. Shes a great cook.

For lunch, I had a salad from Dig Inn. It was broccoli greens, salmon, radishes, and beets, with cilantro. The vinaigrette was lemon and olive oil. It was huge!

It was another Terra opening night. I didnt really eat because I worked the floor for much of the night running circles around the restaurant and talking to everyone. I had two glasses of wine. It was a little smoother than most openings. The first 20 people who hashtagged the restaurant came in for dinner and had a great time. When I got home, I had some more of that Dig Inn salad.

Sunday, April 2 That morning, I had another poached egg with radishes at home, and some of that vegetable soup from Friday.

Then, in the afternoon, I got a to-go Greek salad from Legal Sea Foods, dressing on the side, and put a poached egg on that.

For dinner, I made a porcini-mushroom-fennel soup, with a little bit of farro and roasted fennel, and I had that with an aged cheddar cheese, which I shaved onto it. Plus a salad with radish and parsley and asparagus. I didnt have any groceries left, so I used dried porcini and just water, no chicken stock.

Monday, April 3 I had an egg-white omelette with cheddar in the middle. And then I had some of that mushroom-farro-asparagus soup, which I poured on top of the omelette.

That night, I had a gala for an opening of a documentary Im in, called A Fine Line, about women in back-of-house management roles. I was a little early, so I stopped at Bell in Hand and had grilled shrimp with spicy tomato sauce. My friend and I split that, and we had a glass of wine.

Then, I was at the gala for three hours because I was on a panel. After that, I was starving because I was only supposed to be there an hour, but it was a quarter to 10 p.m. I ran over to Neptune Oysters, and I split a dozen oysters, a crab salad and shrimp cocktail, and a half-bottle of Sancerre wine with my friend. I always drink white wine or ros with ice cubes.

Tuesday, April 4 I had a bowl of cereal with almond milk Kashi shredded wheat with no sugar on it. I had chicken with broccoli and farro again as a late breakfast.

I drove around South Boston with a writer from the Times, showing where I grew up. We stopped at my local spot, a bar called Shamrock, and I had one chicken finger and one French fry. They were big chicken fingers! I dipped it in ketchup and honey-mustard sauce. The fries werent great, so I could hold back. If they had been delicious, I wouldve eaten the whole bowl.

That night, we had an event at Menton to celebrate the memoir. I had a slice of pizza from Babbo that my staff brought in with fava beans, pancetta, and cheese. It was delicious. Its called Babbo in Boston, but it looks like Otto, owned by Mario Batali. During my book signing, I had two pieces of lamb marinated in yogurt and juniper berries. I tasted the potato gnocchi with cream sauce, peas, and lobster. I also had a tomato tarte Tatin and two and a half glasses of wine from David Hirsch. Probably more than that. I was talking so much that I couldnt just sit down and eat.

And I cant lie: I had a small bag of Cheez-Its sometime that day.

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An exhibit in Germany showed s reconstructions of a Neanderthal man and woman. A researcher found that a 150-pound person provides about 32,376 calories, enough for a troop of 25 adult Neanderthals for about a third of a day. A mammoth, on the other hand, could feed the group for a month.

Scientists know that our ancient human cousins ate one another, at least on occasion. At a handful of European sites scattered across some 250,000 years, researchers have dug up hominin bones that bear telltale markings: blade scratches, teeth marks, burns.

What they cant be sure of is why. Modern humans have long practiced cannibalism for a variety of ritual reasons to frighten enemies, cure illness, honor the dead but anthropologists have no evidence that Neanderthals or other hominin species had a cultural motivation for consuming their kin. So, for the most part, researchers assumed ancient cannibalism was nutritional, or purely for the purpose of survival.

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Which got University of Brighton archaeologist James Cole wondering: If hominins ate each other for nutrition, then how nutritious were they?

For a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, Cole calculated the number of calories that could be gotten from one adult human male. Compared to other creatures our ancient cousins ate mammoths, steppe bison, deer it turned out that hominins were a pretty low-calorie snack. A 150-pound person provides about 32,376 calories, enough for a troop of 25 adult Neanderthals for about a third of a day. A mammoth, on the other hand, could feed the group for a month.

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Doing research into the subject, I found that no one had ever defined a calorie value for the human body, and if they did, they were kind of throwaway numbers with no indication of how they arrived there, Cole said.

Coles calculations, on the other hand, are unnervingly specific. His paper contains a chart listing the estimated weight and calorie value for every component of the human body. Head and torso: 5,418.67 calories. Upper arms: 7,451.16 calories. Thighs: 13,354.88 calories. Skin: 10,278 calories. Teeth: 36 calories.

When you stack up muscle values in terms of weigh, we actually fall right where we should right between saiga and roe deer, which are animals roughly about our same size, Cole said, impressively matter-of-fact for someone essentially writing a FDA nutritional facts label for members of his own species.

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Neanderthals and other ancient hominin species, he noted, were far bulkier than modern humans, with big muscles and sturdy builds. They might have been a bit more filling than a Homo sapiens meal, but not by much.

Its interesting because if youre labeling these acts as nutritional cannibalism . . . and you compare how nutritional we are compared to game, we actually arent a very good return, Cole said.

Of course, the Neanderthals werent calorie counters. But they would have been able to tell that a person didnt provide as much sustenance as a boar or a horse. And unlike a boar or a horse, a hominin would be exactly as cunning and skillful as the person whod like to eat him meaning hes much more difficult to kill.

To Cole, this suggests that ancient hominins could have had ritual motivations for consuming members of their own species, just as modern humans did. This shouldnt be surprising he said Neanderthals are already known to have made art, worn jewelry, and developed sophisticated communication.

Clearly these are complex and diverse human species and their attitude to cannibalism I would suggest is going to be as complex and diverse as our own, he said.

Paola Villa, a Neanderthal expert and researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said that Coles calculations offer some interesting information, but should not change our understanding of ancient hominin cannibalism. A person may not have offered the same caloric return as a deer, she said, but hominins werent hunting each other the way they hunted deer anyway.

There never was a suggestion that humans were hunted as food animals, she wrote in an email. Eaten as food, yes, but the cause has always been described as either aggressive cannibalism (well-documented in mammals including primates) or starvation or as a ceremonial mortuary practice.

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Millions of American men pop a multivitamin each day, but new research shows the pills won't help the heart -- even if a man's nutrition is lacking.

"Many had thought that men with 'poor' nutritional status at baseline may benefit more from long-term multivitamin use on cardiovascular outcomes; however, we did not see any evidence for this in our recent analysis," study author Howard Sesso, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said in a hospital news release.

According to background information from the researchers, more than half of older Americans take a multivitamin each day. However, many prior studies have shown little evidence of any health benefit.

In the new research, Sesso and his colleagues tracked data from an ongoing study of more than 14,000 U.S. male doctors over the age of 50. A prior look at this data had found that taking multivitamins did not reduce the men's risk of heart disease over 11 years of follow-up.

But would the same be true for men who had relatively poor diets, perhaps lacking in certain nutrients?

According to the new report, the results were the same -- daily use of multivitamins didnotreduce the risk of heart disease, even in this more nutritionally challenged subset.

Two experts -- one a cardiologist, one a nutritionist -- had somewhat differing views on the findings, however.

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"This study, like previous studies, suggests that multivitamin use does not reduce risk of heart disease -- even in men with poor nutrition," said Dr. Kevin Marzo. He's chief of cardiology at NYU Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y.

Marzo believes too many Americans view multivitamins as a "quick fix" to ward off health woes.

"Prevention strategies for reducing heart disease risk should focus not on dietary supplements but rather on regular exercise and a healthy diet rich in vegetables, whole grains and unsaturated fats," he said.

Stephanie Schiff, a registered dietitian at Huntington Hospital in Huntington, N.Y., took a different view.

"The best way to get nutrients is from whole foods, but sometimes it's beneficial to take a multivitamin to help prevent nutritional shortfalls," she said.

And Schiff believes that -- at least for women -- a lack of nutrients may contribute to heart risks, so outcomes might be different for females.

For example, she said, "some studies indicate that a vitamin D deficiency may be a risk factor for congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks."

But so far, studies involving women and multivitamins have had mixed results, Schiff added, and more research might still be needed.

"Perhaps some kind of nutritional shortfall may be responsible for an increased risk of heart disease in women," she said. "These studies don't necessarily prove cause and effect, but there may be some kind of correlation. The best way to find out would be for more randomized clinical trials with large sample sizes to be conducted."

Sesso agreed. "Given the continued high prevalence of multivitamin use in the U.S., it remains critical for us to understand its role on nutritional status and other long-term health outcomes through clinical trials," he said.

A group representing supplement manufacturers took issue with the study.

"The results of this study are not necessarily generalizable to the whole population," said Duffy MacKay, senior vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs for the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN). "The study participants were male physicians who on average had a healthier diet than the general U.S. population, which could be why the researchers did not find any additional benefit from a nutritional intervention."

The study received funding from the CRN Foundation, MacKay noted.

"We strongly encourage further research to determine additional value of the multivitamin and that of other individual nutrients," he added. "For consumers, the key takeaway of this study is that the multivitamin is not a panacea, but at the very least, given the nutrient shortfalls in our population, it can reliably fill nutrient gaps."

MacKay also recommends that consumers "open up a dialogue" with their physicians about the use of multivitamins or other supplements.

The study was published April 5 in the journalJAMA Cardiology.

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Jake Tapper is a busy guy. The CNN anchor hosts The Lead with Jake Tapper on weekdays and State of the Union on Sunday mornings, where he interviews guests like Kellyanne Conway and Paul Ryan. That six-days-a-week schedule may sound intense to the rest of us, but Tapper told the Cut that hes been on a new diet and fitness regime (thanks to his friend Paul Rudd) that has helped him deal with the stress of it all. We recently chatted with Tapper about how he incorporates wellness into his busy life, his obsession with protein shakes, and how hanging out with his kids helps put things in perspective.

How I start my mornings: I am awakened sometime between 6:30 and 7 a.m. by one of my two children and one of my two dogs, depending on the morning and who is loudest. My wife and I get the kids breakfast and let the dogs out, feed the dogs. Im on this new diet and fitness routine that I started near the beginning of the year, from an actor friend who got really in shape for a movie role and I was really impressed. Since he and I are roughly the same age and roughly the same ethnicity, I thought that was achievable. So I have a bowl of oatmeal and some sort of protein in addition to that hard-boiled eggs or turkey bacon. Then I do 40 minutes of cardio. I do that either on the elliptical machine we have at our house or I go to the gym, and maybe three or four days a week in addition to that, I also work out with a trainer to do core and weights in the morning.

On becoming more health-conscious: Well, Im 48, so Im getting older. I dont have the best back in the world, so having a better core and less weight to haul around helps. Also I think its fair to say this job has gotten a little bit more intense in the last year, and its good to be at the top of my game physically so that I can be at the top of my game intellectually.

Wellness, to me, is: A lot of things. There is certainly emotional wellness, which is the state of being content with ones life, in terms of relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. There is physical wellness, which has to do with limiting the amount of toxins and poisons one puts in ones body and exercising and being as physically possessed as possible. Its not just about looking good in a bathing suit on the beach, but also about how you feel day-to-day walking around in your office. And then there is a spiritual wellness, which to me means attempting to understand and be at peace with larger existential questions that have very little to do with the day-to-day activities of jobs or disappointments or Twitter or trifles, and more to do with trying to be a good person, trying to do good for the community, and trying to improve the world however much one can.

How I deal with stress: The exercise and the diet, to be honest, really help with stress. I have friends who meditate. I am not there yet I dont know if I could ever clear my mind, but when I come home I try to turn off. I try to put the phone away, spend time with my family, not focus on the day-to-day machinations of the Trump White House or Congress, and instead on my familys issues and their problems and whats going on with them. You know, a 7-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl are not really interested in the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that the rest of us might be really fired up about. They are focused on school, friends, and our dogs, and thats where my focus is: with those two and my wife. So that really helps me decompress a lot. Im also working on a novel, which believe it or not, is a huge stress-release as well because it takes place in 1954. So its focused on politics, but its an entirely different set of politics. And since its fictitious, I get to control it.

My skin-care routine: My wife every now and then will force me to get a facial, thats about it. I wash my face and I have makeup artists here who think more about my skin than I do, but every now and then, my wife will say, Youre going to such-and-such to get a facial, and I obey.

On keeping up with wellness at work: I have a yoga mat in my office that I can use for stretching, and I drink a lot of water and have protein shakes its part of this diet that Im doing, where I have a protein shake late morning and a protein shake late afternoon, in addition to a salad and a protein for lunch and dinner. In terms of what we do around the office, in addition to focusing on news, we try to have a fun atmosphere where people laugh and make jokes. We have a 2 p.m. meeting where my senior producers and I go over all the segments for the 4 p.m. show. I would say that, in addition to discussions about how a segment could be better or how a discussion could be more pointed or what we want to focus on, I think well, I hope its a rather friendly atmosphere where were joking around and friends as well as colleagues. Youd have to interview my staff to find out whether thats a delusion or not.

How I sleep: The diet and exercise have also been amazing for my sleep pattern. I go to bed, depending on the night, lets say 10 or 11 p.m., and Im always reading at least one or two books. I lay in bed and the lights are out, and Im reading that on the Kindle. Right now Im reading a book called Red Sparrow, which is about U.S. versus Russia espionage, so thats not hugely a change of subject but it is fictitious. Not drinking as much alcohol and this new diet, which is much more about protein and vegetables and low sugar, low carbs, have really been great for my sleep pattern, and meant that its much easier to fall asleep and also much easier to wake up.

My best wellness advice: I have to say, this diet was the best advice Ive received. My friend whos the actor, we were just talking about fitness and I was talking about how I needed to lose weight and get in much better shape and all that, and he told me about his diet and his routine and how he got in shape for his role it was Paul Rudd, and that was the exercise he did to get in shape for Ant-Man. If you look at pictures of Paul before when he did I Love You, Man and when you look at pictures of Paul when he did Ant-Man, he just completely transformed his health. Hes the one who gave me this rundown and its changed my life. I feel better and Ive lost about 12 pounds since January. That was a huge impact on me, and now Im a bit crazy about it when Im in another city Im always looking for a place where I can get a protein smoothie. Im a little obsessed, but its okay to be obsessed with health.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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Changing your diet in simple ways could nearly halve your chance of a heart attack .

Researchers found 45 per cent of deaths from heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes were linked to a lack of nutrients.

And the US study of 700,000 people said diets packed with sugar, salt and processed meat are big no-nos.

So here are the key eating habits to shake and make to protect your heart, Sunday People can reveal.

CUT BACK ON SALT

One in ten deaths in the study was down to high levels of sodium, making it the biggest baddie on the menu.

Adults should have no more than 6g of salt a day, which is about one teaspoon.

Victoria Taylor, British Heart Foundation dietitian, said: Most of the salt we eat comes from foods we buy ready-made, like bread, cereals and sauces.

"So its important to check labels.

DODGY DRINKS

Drinks with added sugar think fizzy pop, flavoured juices and energy drinks are bad news.

Victoria said: Switching to sugar-free versions or water will help reduce the sugar and calories in your diet.

MEAT CHOICES

Lamb, beef and pork can be high in saturated fat, which raises cholesterol levels. So aim for only one 100g serving a week.

Victoria said: Lean red meat is a good source of iron but it doesnt need to be eaten every day. Other sources of protein like beans, pulses and white or oily fish are healthy choices and are consistent with a Mediterranean diet associated with lower levels of cardiovascular disease.

Try to cut down on processed meat, such as sausages and cured ham, which have been linked to heart disease.

Victoria said: Keep these for every now and then and instead choose lean, unprocessed meat, eggs, fish, beans, pulses and tofu.

FRUIT AND VEG

A really easy one eat more fruit and veg for a longer life. Citrus fruits are packed with vitamin C while pomegranates, contain heart-promoting polyphenols and anthocyanins.

Victoria said: Around 75 per cent of us still arent eating our five-a-day.

Veggies are essential for your plate. Legumes like green beans, help control blood sugar, while potatoes are high in fibre.

NUTS AND GRAINS

The study linked a low intake of nuts and seeds with 8.5 per cent of deaths from heart disease.

Happily, almonds, walnuts, pistachios, macadamias and peanuts contain fibre which is good for your heart. Try to get five 28g servings a week.

Victoria said: Theyre high in calories but a small handful can be a nutritious snack.

Also, swap white pasta or rice for wholewheat versions and try quinoa. Go for 125g a day.

Victoria said: The soluble fibre that wholegrains provide can help lower cholesterol.

SEAFOOD

Omega-3 fatty acids in oily fish such as salmon and mackerel have been shown to lower the risk of irregular heart beat and a build-up of plaque in arteries.

Victoria said: We should all be eating two portions of fish a week, with one being oily fish.

GOOD FATS

Polyunsaturated fats known as good fats reduce bad cholesterol levels in your blood, lowering your risk of heart disease and strokes.

Victoria said: Use oils like rapeseed or olive oil for cooking. Include foods that are sources of unsaturated fat, such as avocado and oily fish, not foods high in saturated fat like fatty meat, biscuits, cakes and chocolate.

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