#711 Bold Beginnings: Terminology Part I
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
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What Is the Glycemic Index?
Glycemic index tells us with diabetes, whether a carbohydrate containing food or not, how quickly it's going to raise your blood sugar. The slower or the lower glycemic sort of numbered foods are going to have a slower overall impact on your blood sugar in a defined time period of about two hours. Glycemic load is the bigger impact, in my opinion, if you look at portion. Watermelon has a really high glycemic index somewhere in the 70s. Anything above 70 up to 100 is very high. And episode 258 is pre-bolless. It's just the idea that man made insulin, even though Jenny hates it, if you call it fast acting insulin because she
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