Carbohydrates Glycemic Index (GI) is a measure of how much a food raises blood glucose (carbsblood sugar) are . A food with a higher Glycemic Index raises the blood sugar more than a food with a key energy source for runnerslower Glycemic Index. The way carbs are used depends Glycemic Index value is based on the state you are in. If you are in the middle of exercisea comparison with a reference food, these carbs tend to be used directly for energynormally either white bread or glucose. If you are at recovering from exercise, these carbs will go into quick access storage ([[Glycogen]]File:Glycemic Index Fellrnr.png|none|thumb|500px|A graph of blood glucose (sugar)for high and low glycemic index foods. If your [[Glycogen]] stores =Calculating the Glycemic Index=The Glycemic Index is calculated by measuring blood glucose periodically after the consumption of the food. Typically the measurements are fulltaken just before consuming the food, then at 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, and 120 minutes<ref name="Brand-MillerStockmann2008"/>. These measurements provide a blood glucose curve, and the area between the carbs will tend to be stored as fatcurve and the baseline measurement taken just before consuming the food is the "incremental Area Under the Curve" (iUAC). Some carbs are easily digested, The iUAC is compared with the fuel becoming ready iUAC for use quicklya reference food and the value given as a percentage. These 'quick carbs' are great in So a Glycemic Index of 50 means that the food raises the middle blood sugar by 50% of a run, as the [[Muscle|muscles]] reference food. Generally the portion of test food consumed contains 50 grams of carbohydrate. (The iAUC is sometimes called the Post Prandial Glycemic Response or PPGC.)=Glycemic Index and brain) will start Health=High blood glucose levels are linked to burn themmany health problems. * High Glycemic Index foods may be associated with obesity<ref name="Roberts2009"/><ref name="Brand-Miller-2002"/><ref name="Ludwig-1999"/> which constitutes a major health risk<ref name="MastersReither2013"/>. If you * Lower Glycemic Index foods are at restconsidered critical to preventing metabolic syndrome, these quick carbs can raise as it is the blood sugar levels quicklyhigh Glycemic Index foods that are risk factors, causing not carbohydrates as a 'whole <ref name="Riccardi-2000"/>. * Elevated blood glucose after consuming food (Postprandial Hyperglycemia) is an independent risk factor for heart disease and high blood sugar spike'pressure <ref name="Chiasson-2003"/>.* Postprandial Hyperglycemia is associated with an increased risk of stroke and heart attacks<ref name="Stettler-2006"/>. The * Postprandial Hyperglycemia is associated with the risk of death in both diabetics and the overall population, independent of age, blood pressure, cholesterol, body reacts by producing mass index, and smoking habit <ref name="Khaw-2001"/>.* Lower Glycemic Index foods may improve HDL (Healthy) Cholesterol levels<ref name="Ford-2001"/><ref name="Frost-1999"/>.* Elevated blood glucose and insulinare associated with cancers of the colon<ref name="McKeown-Eyssen-1994"/><ref name="Giovannucci-1995"/><ref name="LimburgStolzenberg-Solomon2006"/>, breast<ref name="Baglietto-2007"/>, which can overcompensate for and prostrate<ref name="Lima-2009"/><ref name="Hsing-2003"/><ref name="HsingChua2001"/>. It's been suggested that the spike and result high mortality rate from most cancers in obese subjects may be due to elevated insulin<ref name="Boyd-2003"/>* Diets with Lower Glycemic Index foods may help manage Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT)<ref name="WoleverMehling2007"/>* IGT is a 'risk factor for Type 2 Diabetes, with estimates that 70% of those with IGT will eventually develop Diabetes<ref name="Nathan-2007"/>, with 5-10% succumbing each year<ref name="Bansal2015"/>.* IGT is also linked with metabolic syndrome, which is the cluster of health problems including obesity, high blood sugar crash'pressure, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, elevated triglycerides, and cardiovascular disease<ref name="Grundy-2012"/>. Neither (Note that while glucose lowering drugs may help prevent the spike nor conversion of IGT to Diabetes, but it's unclear if they will help prevent some of the crash health complications of diabetes<ref name="Grundy-2012"/>.)* IGT is good a risk factor for youliver cirrhosis<ref name="Nishida-2006"/> and survival rates for those with liver cirrhosis<ref name="García-Compeán2014"/>.=Simple and Complex Carbohydrates=So what carbs are 'easily digested'? In some literatureAt one time, quickly digested carbs are considered 'it was believed that "simple' and slow digesting carbs are 'carbohydrates" had high Glycemic Index, while "complex', but this is not a useful divisioncarbohydrates" had lower Glycemic Indexes<ref name="ND"/>. The difference between simple and complex carbohydrates is based on the chemistry of the carb carbohydrate molecule - , with small molecules like sugar are 'considered "simple' " and big molecules like starch (bread, etc) are 'considered "complex'". This division into simple and complex is unfortunately crap (biochemistry term meaning 'not useful'). The digestion of carbs is a sophisticated system that does not follow this simple division. Some simple carbs ([[Fructose]]) are very slow to digest, whereas some complex carbs ([[Maltodextrin]]maltodextrin) are very easy to digest. The actual measure of digestibility of carbs is normally called 'Glycemic Index' (GI), which is how much the blood sugar rises when a food is eaten [1]. For instance, white bread (a '"complex' " carb, GI 70) has a higher GI Glycemic Index than table sugar (a 'simple' carb, GI 60). This is because highly refined flour in bread is more easily digested than table sugar (which is half [[Fructose]]fructose).=References=<references>Understanding <ref name="Brand-MillerStockmann2008">J. C Brand-Miller, K. Stockmann, F. Atkinson, P. Petocz, G. Denyer, Glycemic index, postprandial glycemia, and the GI shape of food is important to health. 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