Glycemic Index Diet
A glycemic index diet is actually a glycemic index aversion. The Glycemic index is a rank system for carbohydrates with regard to their effect on glucose levels in blood during the first two hours. The glycemic index labels foods gram for gram; providing evidence for comparisons and allowing those who wish to avoid them to be able to.
A relatively new phenomena, the GI index was only invented in 1981, the glycemic index is used all the time in health studies and in products. It’s good to have an aversion to the GI or have a low number because in tests run on rats, high GI rats had 71% more fat and were subjected to all sorts of metabolic abnormalities. So by that rationale, it’s not only the carbohydrates that did it but the carbohydrates rank on the GI score that was the true culprit of the fat rats’ early demise.
Seems like a cut and dry enough argument, eh? GI index is something we can all get behind and we should praise these doctors for their good work! . . . But just like everything there are numerous criticisms.
According to some, GI doesn’t take into consideration like insulin response. There is another interesting bit of note; a food, depending on where it was grown, how long it’s been in storage, and a whole host of other independent variables makes the GI levels vary considerably. This means that if you got a potato in Australia it would have much higher GI read than a potato bought in the United States. But a potato is a potato, isn’t it?
Maybe not. Here’s another interesting item of note. GI levels in a particular food vary from person to person. How can that be? Well, an even more interesting fact is that the same food in the same person at different times in the day can vary! How about that? It’s all dependent on your blood glucose levels, insulin resistance as well as many other factors.
So maybe we can’t all get so gung ho behind the Glycemic index diet just yet. But the glycemic index diet plan is available online for your review. The only thing about this being is that unless you know a whole host of the other factors, you won’t be able to tell about the diets effectiveness or not.
So I guess we’d better just shelve this idea for another day; until the science is a little more exact; until the results will all be uniform.