Glycemic Index

What is the Glycemic Index!

• A ranking system for Fats

• A ranking system for Carbohydrate foods and how they affect your blood sugar

• A ranking system for Protein foods & how they affect your energy

• A Ranking system of vitamins & minerals

High Glycemic Index foods give you what type of energy?

• Short term

• long lasting

• Endurance

• Marathon

Low Glycemic index foods give you what type of energy?

• explosive

• short term

• Sprinting

• Long lasting

If your blood sugar is low, you are considered what?

• Hypoglycemic

• Hyperglycemic

• Hyperglycemia

• Anemic

When your Blood Sugar spikes and gets elevated it will put you in a state of what condition?

• hypoglycemia

• glycogen

• glucose

• hyperglycemia

A low number on the Glycemic index indicates that the food is digested slower?

• True

• False

A higher number on the Glycemic Index indicates that the food will be digested faster and the energy will be used faster in the body.

• True

• False

If you want energy for a long time in school then you should eat a High Glycemic Index food?

• True

• False

All foods on the Glycemic Index are high in FAT

• True

• False

Some people could have Hypoglycemia as a genetic condition?

• True

• False