Jennie Brand-Miller

Professor Jennie Brand-Miller (aka Janette Cecile Brand) PhD, FAIFST, FNSA (born
1952) holds a Personal Chair in Human Nutrition in the School of Molecular
Biosciences at the University of Sydney. She is best known for her research and
publications on the glycemic index, and its role in human health. Her research
interests focus on all aspects of carbohydratesdiet and diabetes, the glycemic
index of foods, insulin resistance, lactose intolerance and oligosaccharides in infant
nutrition.

She holds a special interest in evolutionary nutrition and the diet of Australian
Aborigines. As a nutrition lecturer in 1981, Jennie was investigating Aboriginal
bushfood when she came across the glycemic index, a nutritional concept devised
by Dr. David J. Jenkins and colleagues from the University of Toronto. The glycemic
index has since changed the way the world thinks about food, nutrition and dieting.

Jennie has played a major role in educating the community on the glycemic index.
Her books about the low GI diet, The New Glucose Revolution, are international best-
sellers with more than 2 million in sales since 1996. The most recent title in the
series, The Low GI Diet, was published in September 2004. She has published 16
books and 200 journal articles.

2003: Received a Clunies Ross Medal for Science and Technology

2004: Received the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Award
of Merit.
2011: Received a Queen's Birthday honour, appointed a member of the Order
of Australia (AM), for her research into human nutrition and as a supporter of
people with a hearing impairment.[1]

She has made many publications in her life as a nutritionist at the Sydney
University.

She has come under attack for poor academic scholarship over her argument that
sugar consumption in Australia has declined.[2]

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International Glycemic Index Database

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