The glycaemic index : a physiological classification of dietary carbohydrate /

• Main Author: Wolever, Thomas M. S., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Glycemic index.; Carbohydrates > Metabolism.; Carbohydrates in human nutrition > Classification.; Glycemic Index.; Dietary Carbohydrates > metabolism.; Food Composition and Quality.; Physiology of Human Nutrition.; Man.; Diet.; Dietary carbohydrate.; Food.; Glycaemic index.; Electronic books.
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This book aims to provide a credible, complete and accurate source of information about all the aspects of glycaemic index. It contains chapters on glycaemic index definition and measurement and how glycaemic index information can be applied to meals and diets. Discussions on the reasons why foods h...

Table of Contents:

• Historical introduction
• Determining the GI of food : methodological considerations
• The insulin response to carbohydrate foods : critical evaluation of the insulinaemic index
• Mechanisms by which different carbohydrates elicit different glycaemic responses
• Glycaemic index : application to mixed meals
• Measuring diet GI
• Glycaemic index and health
• Glycaemic index and disease
• Glycaemic index vs glycaemic load.