Glycemic index lijkely an unreliable indicator of blood sugar response

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 09:41 in Health & Medicine

The glycemic index of a given food, a value that aims to quantify how fast blood sugar rises after eating it, can vary by an average of 20 percent within an individual and 25 percent among individuals, report scientists from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HRNCA) at Tufts University. […]

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