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Can You Have Your Carbs and Eat Healthy, Too?

Eat Healthy with Low Glycemic Diet! The glycemic index (GI) is a value based on how fast or how slow a food increases blood sugar. A food that has a low GI can be considered a slow carb, while a high GI is a fast carb. Learn more by clicking the button below.

By By Jenna Bell, PhD, RD

Eat Healthy Carbs

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Will low-glycemic be the next gluten-free?

Every 21 seconds someone in the US discovers they have diabetes, setting a breakneck pace that is fueling a 6% annual increase in the number of Americans diagnosed with the chronic disease for which there is no cure, but which can be managed in part through diet and exercise.

By By Elizabeth Crawford

Listen to Podcast

Fifty50 Foods Updates Packaging for its Low-Glycemic Products

Food Beverage Media highlights Fifty50 Foods new packaging

Food Beverage Media

Healthy Low-Glycemic Foods for Blood Sugar Levels

Learn about quality Low-Glycemic food options from the Supplement Police

Quality Options with Fifty50 Foods

Major Health Benefits with a Low-Glycemic Diet

Here's how switching to a Low-Glycemic diet can have major health benefits including reduced risk of age-related eye disease. Read what the researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University say about prevention.

Switch to Low-Glycemic Diet to Help Reduce Eye Disease

Should Diabetics Use the Glycemic Index?

U.S. News & World Report provides insight on how a Low GI diet can help people with diabetes and ways to use the glycemic load to determine a food's impact on your blood sugar.

Learn How Glycemic Index Can Help You

Create a Healthy Eating Plan

Want an easy way to lose weight? Women's Health Magazine shares tips on how to use the Glycemic Index to create a healthy eating plan with lower carbs and foods that don't quickly raise your blood sugar levels.

Make cutting carbs easy with Low Glycemic Diet

Ask the Doctors: Glycemic index is useful for monitoring blood sugar

Doctors Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, and Elizabeth Ko, M.D., at UCLA Health explain what the Glycemic Index is and the relationships between foods, blood sugar and GI and how to take control of your diet to prevent blood sugar spikes and for better health overall.

By TulsaWorld.com

Ask the Drs: GI Useful for Monitoring Blood Sugar

The Lowdown on Glycemic Index

The glycemic index is one tool of several that can help you make better carbohydrate choices.

By Environmental Nutrition

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