- Ask the Dietitian: Carbohydrates & Glycemic Index
Joanne Larsen provides a basic overview of the glycemic index and the different rates at which carbohydrates break down into sugars.
www.dietitian.com/carbos.html
- Glycemic Index: Flogging a Dead Horse?
Article by Thomas Wolever arguing that the glycemic index is important to understanding and managing blood glucose levels and calling for greater objectivity and research.
www.mendosa.com/wolever.htm
- Glycemic Index and Exercise Metabolism
Explains how carbohydrates and fats are utilized by the body during exercise and how the glycemic index influences metabolism. Includes glycemic indexes of common foods.
www.ultrunr.com/glycemic.html
- Diabetes Mall: Glycemic Index
Table listing the glycemic index values for a variety of foods.
www.diabetesnet.com/diabetes_food_diet/glycemic_index.php
- Low Glycemic Diet
From FIFTY 50 Foods. Provides information about eating foods with low glycemic index values.
www.lowglycemicdiet.com
- Glycemic Index: The Index in Depth
Explains the utility of the glycemic index in a person's overall nutritional strategy. From the Canadian Diabetes Association.
www.diabetes.ca/Section_About/glycemic.asp
- Glycemic Index (GI) Symbol Program
Food labelling program promoting an easily recognizable symbol to help people use GI as a factor in food choice. Covers topics for consumers, health providers, and the food industry.
www.gisymbol.com.au
- International Table of Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Values: 2002
Detailed article from the July 2002 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/76/1/5
- Understanding and Using Glycemic Index
Transcript of a November 2000 online chat in which people shared their own experiences using the glycemic index to manage their blood glucose.
www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/chat/transcript/foodmatters20001127.htm
- Glycemic Index Online
Provides information on the glycemic index of foods, research data, testing services and information on the GI symbol program. From the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney.
www.glycemicindex.com
- Glycemic Index, The
Article by Rick Mendosa explaining the index, which ranks carbohydrate foods according to how high they raise blood sugar after eating.
diabetes.about.com/library/mendosagi/nmendosagi.htm
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