Talk:Glycemic load

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It would be helpful to understand how Glycemic Load is to be used. For instance, is a food with a Glycemic Load of <10 relatively good?

[edit] Bad links

The external link GL Diet Information appears to be broken. Not removing the link, just in case the site is simply down. Josh3580 05:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Curves?

Does anyone know of any links to sites which show the actual curves (blood sugar over time)? It would be helpful to be able to see them.

Geebee2K 19:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-carb food stuffs?

The watermelon example of how high water content food can influence the GI value seems like it would be useful to look further into. This is true that one would be getting a lower overall glucose spike from a real portion of watermelon than the GI would lead one to believe (the actual ingestion of carbs per serving is much lower). However, does this direct mathematical adjustment that is applied by the GL rating, of factoring back in the overall portion size, properly compensate for the actual blood glucose effects? It is basically factoring back in a gram quanitity that can be vastly different possible non-carb food stuffs, depending on the food. The non-carb food stuffs contained in various foods can range from being water, fiber, protein, to fat, and all of which may have a different effect on the speed of release of the glucose content. Now, this fact IS already taken into account by the very nature of the GI, but by carrying out the mathematical operation of factoring the portion size back into the equation, are the food's relative effects being properly maintained as a true rule of thumb? In other words, will two identically sized portions of food with the same GL by their nature have the same effect on blood glucose, even if one of these foods is half water, and the other food is half protein or fat? I already know about the disproportionate insulin response relative to the carbohydrate load of some foods, which the insulin index proposes to deal with, so I am not talking about that, but, instead, strictly the blood glucose. Mmortal03 (talk) 06:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)