Computation of Overall Glicemic Index.

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Computation of Overal Glicemic Index

My sugestion to the calculus is:

OGI = Pondered Mean betwen Glicemic load and calories.

Practical Example:

grams kcal glicemic index

An orange = 220 g 60 kcal 20

An banana = 95 g 81 kcal 70

An apple = 212 g 128 kcal 30

computation:

60 * 20 + 81 *70 + 30 * 128

OGI = --------------------------- =

60 + 81 + 128

1200+5670+3840

-------------- = 39.8 < 60 (Good)

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My sugestion to Walford and other codifiers of

DWIDP could add an field in

the database of foods to help CRONies to keep track of

OGI (defined above).

This is very important, because High GI foods

glicolise colagen, elastin

and long lived proteins (the popular AGEs) leading to

wrinkles, loss

of flexibity in joints and cataracts. AGEs caused by

high overal glicemic

index are bad for the heart and terrible for diabetics.

This is an important issue. IMHO. So let's keep the

OGI low!

-- Gandhi.

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