What is the glycemic load?  The glycemic load is a rating of not just how carbohdyrates impact your blood sugar levels but the amount of carbohydrates you are consuming. Glycemic load is a better ‘measure’ of carbohydrates compared to glycemic index. Check out the video for more

What is the glycemic Index? The glycemic index is a rating of how carbohdyrates impact your blood sugar levels. Check out the video above for more.

First let discuss what low glycemic is before we decide if it will help you with your weight loss. Low glycemic foods are foods that when consumed do not dramatically elevate your blood sugar levels. Eating foods that are high glycemic will dramatically increase your blood sugar levels. Your body starts to promote the fat storage of these sugars when you eat high glycemic foods because your insulin level increases.

When women want to know or ask what foods to eat so they can be skinny they are essentially looking for foods that aren’t going to promote the storage of fat. To become low glycemic a food needs to have a mixture of nutrients, be lower in overall sugars and contain a fair amount of fiber with each serving.

Q: Mike, In the December Muscle and Fitness magazine mentions that the best carbs before workouts are slow-digesting (page 162) citing a 2007 study from the National Taiwan College of Physical Education which found that when eight male runners ran to exhaustion after eating a meal of slow-digesting carbs (Kellogg’s All-Bran cereal, fat-free milk, peaches, apples and apple juice), they ran for more than seven minutes longer than when they ate a meal of fast-digesting carbs (Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, fat-free milk, white bread, jam, a glucose drink and water) beforehand.

So I’m confused as to what type of carbs to take before a workout!