Glycemic Index Help

if you mix high glycemic index foods with low glycemic foods does it control the spike in blood sugar?

for example bread and milk or fruit and yogurt? i'm not diabetic but i am trying a low glycemic diet

Public Comments

1. if you combine food you get a combined effect, the only way to avoid a spike in blood sugar is to make sure you don't eat high sugar food, but if you want to cheat :-) add some oil, which slows down the absorption and add protein. That's why the french drink wine and eat cheese at the same time.. it's not only because of cleaning the palate... the wine is a carbohydrate - high glycemic, the cheese containing protein and fat is not.. have a look at the zone diet ..
2. No - don't eat high glycemic foods - just don't eat them - Just say No. All the foods you mention are fairly highly glycemic. Try eggs, cheese, meat, fish, nuts - take a look at their glycemic numbers - they're around zero. What you don't want is to eat a bunch of sugar which will call forth HUGE amounts of insulin in your blood. That's what the usual American diet does - leaves us swimming in insulin - bad idea. Anyway starches, sugars - they're all carbohydrate - so look for that on the package. Subtract the grams of fiber. On the Atkins diet you try for less than 20 grams of carbohydrate per day. That insures that you produce very little insulin. You feel a lot better.