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The glycemic index is a system of categorizing foods based on how they affect your blood sugar. It was created in the early 80's at the University of Toronto. The GI system rates food on a scale of 1 to 100. The less impact the food has on blood sugar levels, the lower the number it's assigned.

Glycemic index of foods are determined in a laboratory setting. Consumers normally look at GI charts that are readily available to in order to determine the GI of specific foods.

Foods with little to no carbs will be very low on the GI scale. Foods with high amounts of sugar will score higher. It's important to understand that a high GI food is not synonymous with an unhealthy food. Many foods have a medium to high GI content, but still offer vital nutritional components. It's best to consume a balanced diet rich in whole foods of all kinds to maintain health.

Many people try a low GI diet in hopes of losing ...

...Some people are left-brained; others are right-brained.

Supposedly, left-brained people are analytical, logical and verbal, whereas right-brained people are creative, holistic and spatial. Scores of popular books have seized on this purported dichotomy. In his 1972 best-seller, The Psychology of Consciousness, Stanford University psychologist Robert Ornstein argued that Western society places too great an emphasis on rational, left-brain thinking and not enough on intuitive, right-brain thinking. In 1979 artist and psychologist Betty Edwards's still popular book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, similarly touted the benefits of more creative, right-brained forms of artistic expression.

Yet as Barry and University of Auckland psychologist Michael Corballis noted, the left-brained-versus-right-brained dichotomy is grossly oversimplified. For one thing, this distinction implies that people who are verbally gifted are not likely to be artistically talented, but rese...