Cereal Foods World 2007 | The Glycemic Index: Looking Back 25 Years

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The Glycemic Index: Looking Back 25 Years

A. L. Jenkins. St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. Glycemic Index Laboratories, Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada. Cereal Foods World 52(2):50-53.

Methodology of the GI is well established and, despite inherent biological variability in the measurement, good agreement can be achieved between different laboratories.

A diet with a low glycemic load may not have the same physiological effects as a low-GI diet.

Research conducted over the last 25 years suggests that the GI has potential therapeutic utility.

To allow the GI concept to become a practical reality, the food industry will be instrumental in developing a wider range of readily available, acceptable, low-GI foods.