Some have theorized that, compared with a low-fat diet, a low-glycemic-load diet promotes fewer physiologic responses to calorie restriction and enables dieters to maintain more normal resting ...

and glycemic load (GL). The GI is a score assigned to different types of foods that provides an approximate estimate of how ...

The glycemic load (GL) adjusts GI scores for portion sizes, but it creates some confusing scenarios. High-GI foods may have a low GL. Watermelon, for example, has a GI of 72, but the GL of a ...