Every so often the idea that carrots or some other fairly innocuous food is bad due to a high Glycemic Index (GI) comes through the fitness industry. I can recall seeing it 3-4 times over my career. Invariably this is an overreaction due to not really understanding what the Glycemic Index really represents. So to help clear it up I want to look at the GI concept in some detail along with a related concept called the Glycemic Load (GL). And while I’ve done a full guide to dietary carbohydrates before, I want to start with a quick precis on how carbs are classified in the diet.
Classifying Carbohydrates
How to classify different carbohydrates in the human has been a topic for decades if not the better part of a century (I’m sure it goes back further than this but I’m not sugar historian) and to make this article make sense, I want to blather about the different types of carbohydrates.… Keep Reading