Carbs Information
Facts About Carbohydrates in Food
GI Diet Advice and Glycemic Index

Facts About Carbs

In addition, we give you answers to hundreds of questions about carbohydrates and diet nutrition, including:

- What is a Carbohydrate?
- What is Photosynthesis?
- How Do We Use Carbohydrates?
- What is Dietary Fiber?
- Are Carbs Good for Health?
- What's the Carb-Content of Foods?
- What Exactly is Glycemic Index (GI)?
- How to Find GI Values for Foods?
- Why is Glycemic Index Important?
- What Does Glycemic Load Mean?
- What is a GI Diet?
- Are Carbs Bad for Weight Loss?
- Do Carbs Cause Food Cravings?
- Do Carbs Cause Insulin Problems?
- Do Carbs Make Us Fat?
- How are Carbs Digested?
- How is Glucose Turned to Energy?
- How does Glycogen Store Energy?
- What is Glycogenesis?
- What is Glycogenolysis?
- Are Carbs Bad for Blood Glucose?
- What Exactly is Carb-Loading?
- Do Carb-Blockers Work?
- Are Low Carb Diets Bad for Health?
- What are Ketogenic Diets?
- Is Ketosis dangerous?
- Is Ketosis same as Ketoacidosis?
- How to Test for Ketones?
- How to Test Blood Glucose?
- Do Low Carb Diets Really Work?
- What is the Hormone Insulin?
- What Does Insulin Do?
- What is Glucagon?
- How is Insulin Resistance Caused?
- What is Metabolic Syndrome?
- Is Syndrome X Linked to Obesity?
- What are the Most Popular Carbs?
- How Many Carbs in Atkins Diet?
- Is the Atkins Diet Safe?
- Why is South Beach Diet Different?
- Is the Zone Diet Healthy?
- What is the Meaning of Diabesity?
- Hyperglycemia vs. Hypoglycemia
- What is a Blood Glucose Monitor?
- What Carbs are Best to Eat?
- How to Calculate Net Carbs?

GI Diets Replace Low Carb Diets
Weight loss plans based on the glycemic index (GI) - which classifies carbohydrates according to their effect on blood glucose after digestion - offer all the metabolic health benefits of low carb diets, without any of the nutritional concerns of long term carb-restriction.

Glycemic Index (GI)
For information about
the glycemic index, which measures the effect of carbs on blood glucose levels, plus glycemic values for all popular foods,
see: Glycemic Index

White Flour Carbs
Sugary carbs, especially table sugar (sucrose), used to be seen as causing adverse health effects for diabetics and people with symptoms of impaired glucose tolerance or insulin insensitivity. Although a high sugar diet can cause problems for these groups, most nutritionists now view refined white flour foods (most of which have a high GI-value) as causing more glycemic health problems, such as insulin resistance, and digestive disorders.