High glycemic foods vs low glycemic foods

Glycemic Index

The glycemic index of a food is a rank structure of foods in terms of how much your blood sugar will spike if you eat them. Glycemic loads matter to those who have diabetes in particular, and of the 29.1 million people with diabetes in this country, more than 8 million don’t know they have it, according to the American Diabetes Association. Prediabetic numbers skyrocketed in this decade, with 79 million people in the US over 20 estimated as prediabetic in 2010, and 86 million in 2012. According to the ADA, prediabetes raises your chances of both …read more