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glycemic index

[glī¦sēm·ik ′in‚deks]
(medicine)
A ranking of foods based on how they affect blood glucose (sugar) levels in the 2-3 hours after eating, foods with carbohydrates that break down quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Glycemic index (GI) and carbohydrate quality plays an important role in disease prevention, according to a scientific consensus statement released in June 2013 at the International Scientific Consensus Summit on Glycemic Index in Stresa, Italy.
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The study of the glycemic index (GI) of foods has increased (8-10), and specially emerged as an alter-native tool for the preparation of pre-exercise meals (11-13).
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