Low-glycemic foods, such as sweet potatoes, rolled oats, chickpeas, and milk, are slower to raise a person’s blood sugar levels than foods with moderate or high scores on the glycemic index (GI).

Over the past half-century, type 2 diabetes cases in the United States have risen precipitously. Just 1% of adults had the disease in 1958; by 2020 it was 13% — around 34 million people 1.

More information: Karen A Della Corte et al, Development of a national database for dietary glycemic index and load for nutritional epidemiologic studies in the United States, The American Journal ...