GL Diet vs GI Diet
There are many foods that have high GI but a low GL. Some examples of these foods are carrots, parsnips, watermelon, broad beans and pumpkin. There are also many more… So in simple terms a GL diet means you have many more food choices than if you following a GI diet! .
Of course having more food choices and less restriction to what you can eat allows the diet easier to maintain which of course means losing weight easily and get all the nutrition your body needs.
GL (Glycemic Load) works by taking into account the amount of carbohydrates in a food portions we eat, whereas GI is different as it uses a laboratory test reference that can't be related to portion sizes, i.e. 50g of rice has the same low GI score as 750g of rice!
So how do we know how much we can eat without sending our bloody sugar levels high! It's simple - by using a GL Diet.
For example 75g of rice keeps the GL score under 10, so it is low GL and won’t adversely affect your blood sugar levels. If you raise your blood sugar levels too high this will switch on your fat storing mechanism!