GI
Example Sentences
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Perhaps you had a moment like this: You were home on the couch and you saw the guys bounding in and thought, “I am sophisticated, I know what they’re doing, they’re manipulating me, but I’m not some rube, I’ll watch clinically. Oh Jeez, Jack Hughes’s tooth is still broken, God bless him. The goalie’s chewing gum like some 1945 GI.”
“My grandfather was from Hawaii, he came as a GI, so I always had a very trusted connection to the U.S.,” said Natascha Ahrens, a 59-year-old office manager.
The GI scale -- from 0 to 100 -- ranks foods based on this response.
From Science Daily
Diets centered on lower glycemic index foods were associated with a reduced likelihood of developing dementia, while higher GI diets were linked to greater risk.
From Science Daily
“That’s an easy way to remember that it’s going to draw in that liquid. It’s going to expand and add bulk as it travels through the GI system.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.