I feel like, after several passes in this blog, I’m starting to get a good feel for the fat situation. Today I began thinking again about carbohydrates because I know that it’s not a good idea to get all calories from fat, which means that people need to get some of their calories from carbohydrates. At the moment I know enough about carbohydrates to know that not all cabohydrates are created equal. And recently I’ve heard the term ‘glycemic index’ bandied around with greater frequency.
According to
this
site, the glycemic index indicates how quickly a food gets convereted
into blood sugar by your body. I’ve heard of simple and complex
carbohydrates before, and not surprisingly simple carbohydrates in a food
tend to lead to a high glycemic index for that food, since they already
are sugars. However, the break down isn’t quite that simple. Some complex
carbohydrate filled foods still have high glycemic indexes because the
body breaks down the complex carbohydrates easily.
posted at 16:54 on Thu, 10 Mar, 2005 |
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