I just have a little correction regarding this from The Low GI Handbook by Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller et al, under top ten myths about the GI: "Myth 3: Carrots have a high GI.  Fact: Carrots have a low GI (41 for cooked carrots).  The original value of 92 was found to be incorrect when retested."  I've been doing the GI for about a year and it's been a breeze.  I definitely feel better and healthier when I eat a low glycemic vegan diet.  I feel that I need to point out that many diets can be done in a healthy way or in an unhealthy way.  I believe that vegan diets are healthier than non-vegan, but you can of course be an unhealthy vegan if you eat all the wrong foods.  The same goes for the low GI diet.  No knowledgeable advocate of the low GI diet is advocating eating candy and drinking soda (both of which, by the way, would actually be too high to be considered low GI as they have values of over 55).  But the fact that you could theoretically do the diet in an unhealthy way is, to me, not reason enough to throw the baby out with the bathwater.  And since the diet has helped many people with serious medical conditions like diabetes and metabolic syndrome, I think we should be careful about making such statements.