http://www.pousadadaedna.com/health-news/get-easy-with-glycemic-load-index.html Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:00:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.pousadadaedna.com/health-news/get-easy-with-glycemic-load-index.html/comment-page-1#comment-20 Marie Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:19:16 +0000 http://www.pousadadaedna.com/?p=114#comment-20 GI tells you if the type of sugar in a food is 'fast-releasing' but not how much carbohydrate there is in the food. For instance, we consider watermelon as a high glycemic index food but it has very little carbohydrate in it or something like chocolate has medium GI and it has a very high content of sugar. Take carrots, index value is rather high, but this rating is based on blood glucose effect of eating 50 grams of carbs from carrots, a serving of carrots certainly does not have that much of carbohydrate, so its impact on blood sugar is much less than many high GI foods. GI tells you if the type of sugar in a food is ‘fast-releasing’ but not how much carbohydrate there is in the food. For instance, we consider watermelon as a high glycemic index food but it has very little carbohydrate in it or something like chocolate has medium GI and it has a very high content of sugar.
Take carrots, index value is rather high, but this rating is based on blood glucose effect of eating 50 grams of carbs from carrots, a serving of carrots certainly does not have that much of carbohydrate, so its impact on blood sugar is much less than many high GI foods.

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