GI of certain foods

**flyguy7** · 07-02-2006, 08:56 PM

hey y'all, i've gone through several diets with good results generally, and cereal has always been apart of the plan, usually for bfast. Obviously I did alot of this dieting without enough research, because I was reading the latest Musclemag and an article on dieting was listing some foods as they fit into the glycemic index. I was surprised to see a couple cereals i used to consider as pretty legit for dieting listed in the high (70 and above) section of the GI---- cheerios and corn flakes. This diet I've been eating special K fairly regularly to start the day, and oats for the rest of my carbs. Should I cut out the special k altogether, are there any cereals i can eat? it also listed skim milk as a low GI carb, whereas i thought milk had a lot of processed sugars?

**Angelus** · 07-03-2006, 10:33 AM

i usually just use oats and sweet potatoes for my carbs

**flyguy7** · 07-03-2006, 05:40 PM

yeah i guess the special k is def out. I'm still confused about the skim milk thing though, bump for that. Why is skim milk a low gi food?

**spittin' 'n cussin'** · 07-03-2006, 05:54 PM

first problem is reading Mainstreamag.

the gi theyre talking about is eating that food all by itself...like speciak k's gi would change as soon as u add milk and eat some toast with it. do some reading on the glycemic load of food and u can tell what will do what to your blood levels. imo