The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
optimize fat-loss or muscular gain?
What if, as an endurance athlete, you could eat carbs only when you most needed them
instead of guessing with a timer?
The wish list went on and on. Now I just needed to check them off, one by one.
Making a (Wish) List ... And Checking It Twice
After my dinner at Fire y, I immediately started jotting down dream tests, as this little gizmo
seemed capable of clearing up some long- standing theoretical bullsh*t.
I'd long been fascinated by the glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) index, both of
which re ect how much certain foods raise blood sugar levels as compared to a control (usually
white bread or glucose with a designated value of 100). The higher the GI or GL value (the
latter takes into account portion size),23 the more a food causes blood sugar to jump. The more
a food causes blood sugar to jump, in general, the fatter you will get.
There are two problems with these indices